{"id":19876,"date":"2014-01-06T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19876"},"modified":"2014-01-09T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:52:16","slug":"gop%e2%80%99s-obamacare-alternative-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19876\/gop%e2%80%99s-obamacare-alternative-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP\u2019s ACA Alternative is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll add an Amen to what our friend Quin Hillyer preaches at National Review Online today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/367532\/repealing-it-not-enough-quin-hillyer \" target=\"_blank\">Quin writes convincingly<\/a> about the opportunity Republicans have to take control of Congress by uniting behind the Obamacare alternative proposed by the House Republican Study Committee (RSC).<\/p>\n<p>The short, snappy piece is worth reading in its entirety, but here I want to draw attention to two points I\u2019m glad Quin made. First, there must be an agreement among the DC GOP leadership to adopt the RSC\u2019s framework for reform. Doing so would commit the party to a conservative version of reform that, as Quin demonstrates, will be an easy sell during the campaign season.<\/p>\n<p>Second, that this strategic decision must be joined to an equally unified agreement to abandon any version of comprehensive immigration reform this year. Just as Obamacare is an internally divisive issue among Democrats, so too is immigration reform among Republicans. In a year where Obamacare is already the dominant issue, there is no reason for Republicans to voluntarily drive a wedge between their members on immigration by reviving an issue that\u2019s currently dead. Instead, GOP leaders should try to divide and conquer the Democrats with votes on Obamacare alternatives they can\u2019t afford to oppose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsc.scalise.house.gov\/solutions\/rsc-betterway.htm \" target=\"_blank\">Conservatives at the RSC have put forward a viable plan<\/a>. It\u2019s up to GOP leaders to decide whether they want to spend 2014 defeating Democrats, or fighting their own members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll add an Amen to what our friend Quin Hillyer preaches at National Review Online today. Quin writes convincingly about the opportunity Republicans have to take control of Congress by uniting behind the Obamacare alternative proposed by the House Republican Study Committee (RSC). The short, snappy piece is worth reading in its entirety, but here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,615,3308,981,35,1447,1784],"class_list":["post-19876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-gop","tag-health","tag-immigration","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19880,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19876\/revisions\/19880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}