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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:59 PM Jan 2017

Still no ACA replacement plan, but GOP ads say it exists and is awesome



http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/gop-group-spending-1-4m-to-tout-aca-replacement-plan-that-may-not-exist/

New online and TV ads say mystery plan will have better care, lower costs.

A GOP-affiliated group is spending more than $1.4 million to run digital and television advertisements that laud a Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act—despite the fact that the party has yet to present any such plan, Roll Call reports.

The ads have been launched by the American Action Network, a conservative advocacy group linked to House GOP leadership. These materials say the unidentified plan will create a health insurance system that has “more choices,” “better care,” and “lower costs” than the ACA. The ads began running Thursday and Friday in districts of vulnerable Republicans, GOP leaders, and “rank-and-file” Republicans from very conservative states.

The roll out of the ads coincides with voting in the Senate and House on budget resolution legislation that paves the way for defunding and dismantling the ACA through a budget reconciliation process. The party is expected to go ahead with repealing the ACA despite not having a replacement plan in place.

*Roll Call has a similar article with more details (Link Below)

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/american-action-network-campaign-health
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Still no ACA replacement plan, but GOP ads say it exists and is awesome (Original Post) Jimbo101 Jan 2017 OP
For them. raging moderate Jan 2017 #1
In fact it's better, yeah... yeah... That's the ticket! Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #2
It's an amazing plan. The absolute best. Very, very beautiful plan. dalton99a Jan 2017 #3
If you go to Paul Ryan's page, MurrayDelph Jan 2017 #8
Easy plan .. Blue_Warrior Jan 2017 #4
Look for the GOP plan in "Fake News". It's all there. nt NCjack Jan 2017 #5
If they were to put as much effort into it Turbineguy Jan 2017 #6
"It's a secret!" HassleCat Jan 2017 #7
YOU LIE! elleng Jan 2017 #9

MurrayDelph

(5,293 posts)
8. If you go to Paul Ryan's page,
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:31 PM
Jan 2017

the "plan" he has posted is a PowerPoint slide of goals that he would like a replacement to feature. Goals and desires are not plans. I have the desire to be a multi-millionaire, but I ain't going out a buying a private jet based on that desire.

Once-again (like they did in Iraq), the Republicans are using the Underpants Gnome plan:


Turbineguy

(37,319 posts)
6. If they were to put as much effort into it
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:17 PM
Jan 2017

as they do stealing elections and creating fake scandals, it would probably really be a great plan.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
7. "It's a secret!"
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:27 PM
Jan 2017

"We can't tell you about it because it is so effing awesome your head would explode if we hit you all at once with all the good things you'll be experiencing pretty soon."

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