Comments on: GOP says: “Stop complaining about health care” http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/2007/01/10/gop-says-stop-complaining-about-health-care/ your early detection system Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:18:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Retired Army http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/2007/01/10/gop-says-stop-complaining-about-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Retired Army Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:11:44 +0000 http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/2007/01/07/senator-sununu-stop-complaining-about-health-care/#comment-251 Right on! Maybe if the elected representatives had the same type of retirement and health plans that most hardworking American Citizens had their stories and actions would change! Right on!

Maybe if the elected representatives had the same type of retirement and health plans that most hardworking American Citizens had their stories and actions would change!

]]> By: Michael Duff http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/2007/01/10/gop-says-stop-complaining-about-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Michael Duff Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:41:12 +0000 http://www.corkinthewater.com/blog/2007/01/07/senator-sununu-stop-complaining-about-health-care/#comment-244 One short-term fix would be to repeal or significantly modify Section 514 of ERISA. That is the all-encompassing preemption provision that effectively prevents states from experimenting with new approaches to providing health care by forbidding state legislation in the arena of employee benefits. (Empty preemption). It is not at all clear to me that the Massachusetts plan - at least as it pertains to employer-provided health care -would survive a well-coordinated ERISA challenge. (That battle may be going on now for all I know). This is the same provision that has torpedoed the "Walmart" bills. I think with minor framing the electorate could be persuaded to let the states perform their historic roles as "the laboratories of new ideas." One short-term fix would be to repeal or significantly modify Section 514 of ERISA. That is the all-encompassing preemption provision that effectively prevents states from experimenting with new approaches to providing health care by forbidding state legislation in the arena of employee benefits. (Empty preemption). It is not at all clear to me that the Massachusetts plan – at least as it pertains to employer-provided health care -would survive a well-coordinated ERISA challenge. (That battle may be going on now for all I know). This is the same provision that has torpedoed the “Walmart” bills. I think with minor framing the electorate could be persuaded to let the states perform their historic roles as “the laboratories of new ideas.”

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