Well good for Doug...unfortunately, the GOP is doing what they always do...LYING. All weekend they had a parade of Republicans coming out and saying they HAVE a plan, they've had it since June but nobody lets anybody SEE it...it's the media, Pelosi, Reid, take your pick. It's the pesky LIBERALS fault!

Looks like Harry finally used some of his excellent "government run" healthcare to obtain a spine transplant. And not a moment too soon.

Now he just needs a Lieberectomy--that's when a Lieberman is surgically removed from your caucus.

'Lieberectomy' needs to become part of the vocabulary, stat.

But I thought Rep. Grayson had already revealed the GOP plan.

What? That wasn't their plan? Really? Sure seemed like it. ;-)

They won't present a real plan. It will be nothing but bullet-points, if anything is presented at all.

"We have a Secret Plan to.... If elected, you will see the plan; if not, you won't." Cuntry Furst!

While implementing the annual clutter excise the other day, I came upon a birthday card I once purchased (but never sent) for a dear Republican friend of mine. The cover reads "Republican Birthday Card". The inside reads "Buy Your Own Damn Present".

I dare say the GOP health care reform can be summed up similarly.

I wonder if it will be in a pretty folder with pictures and highlighted patriotic bullet points, aka, a complete pile of bullshit ala Boner.

The Majority Leader also encouraged GOP senators to "immediately" make their proposal available to the public [...] -- Steve Benen

Never mind open to the public; I want it scored, point by point, by CBO, to see how financially responsible it is. How much will it cost? Where's the money coming from? Will it add to the deficit? How much? Over what period of time? IOW, the same kind of scoring every plan resented by the Dems has had to have.

As for Holz-Eakin's personal health care problems... Poor baby. But, at least, he still has his home that he can sell for treatments.

Easy call here folks. When Lieberman, Landrieu, and Bayh get finished with what remains of the public option and cost controls, the Republicans will HAVE their plan.

The GOP never felt that had to come up with a new health plan - because their health plan was to obstruct any momentum and leave us with the same system we have already. You know the one - where all the uninsured show up at the emergency room.

Gee! I really feel bad for Douglas Holtz-Eakin. What goes around comes around.

Perhaps Mr. Holtz-Eakin could go to the ER for his treatment. I hear that is the American way of Health Care. None of this Socialist healthcare. Let the Free Market care for its own!

If Doug has to spend thousands every month on an individual insurance policy that covers diddly squat, that's a small price to pay to prevent an Undeserving Other from getting healthcare.

While I don't doubt that their plan will suck. I wonder if they don't already have that plan drawn up. It would be fitting for them to pull out a 600 page document at zero hour and say, "Wait! We have a plan and it should be read and discussed and debated in the news for a few months before any voting takes place!"

The GOP has been promising a plan for over half a year now, so I doubt they mean it any more this time. Any actual plan would create the impression that Congress should choose between one or the other, which means something might actually be done about health care. They've already presented their preferred outcome: nothing.

Also, I'm not sure who sneaked up behind Harry Reid and gave him a testosterone shot, but it's about damn time.

There is no debate...only stalling. This should already be a done deal

"Easy call here folks. When Lieberman, Landrieu, and Bayh get finished with what remains of the public option and cost controls, the Republicans will HAVE their plan."
Posted by: BGinCHI on November 2, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Exactly! Good insight. Spot on.

"Holtz-Eakin expects to now pay exorbitant premiums through an individual health insurance plan."

Good luck with that. In my state, with a pre-existing condition there are only two plans available to you through the state's Major Risk Medical Insurance Pool. And we're lucky to have MrMIP, as it's called. One is expensive and the other is twice as expensive.

He seems to think insurance companies will issue plans to anyone as long as cost is not an issue. He'll find out he's wrong, and if his party doesn't win, he'll be lucky to be able to buy incredibly expensive insurance in 2013. Until then, as Alan Grayson says, he'll have to follow the Republican plan: don't get sick(-er in his case).

You'd think the guy wouldn't want to participate in a "government health care program" like COBRA.