Apologies we did not get this story on TMV earlier, because it is a game-changer. The big criticism of Republicans who seek to repeal Obamacare is that they offer no alternative to it. But this morning, on the Today Show, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, a fierce Health Care Act critic, was asked what plan would replace Obamacare if the Republican Party could appeal it. And she offered these specifics:
“The plan is to allow those things that had been proposed over many years to reform a health-care system in America that certainly does need more help so that there’s more competition, there’s less tort reform threat, there’s less trajectory of the cost increases, and those plans have been proposed over and over again. And what thwarts those plans? It’s the far left. It’s President Obama and his supporters who will not allow the Republicans to usher in free market, patient-centered, doctor-patient relationship links to reform health care. “
(Oh.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.