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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStill 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 Actdespite 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
raging moderate
(4,297 posts)1. For them.
Only for them.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)2. In fact it's better, yeah... yeah... That's the ticket!
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)3. It's an amazing plan. The absolute best. Very, very beautiful plan.
MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)8. If you go to Paul Ryan's page,
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:
Blue_Warrior
(135 posts)4. Easy plan ..
Medicare for all. Why not?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)5. Look for the GOP plan in "Fake News". It's all there. nt
Turbineguy
(37,319 posts)6. If they were to put as much effort into it
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!"
"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."
elleng
(130,865 posts)9. YOU LIE!