I am guessing most people probably remember that back when the debate over the President’s budget was going on, Boehner went down to Kinko’s, got some glossy brochures printed up with a few Rushpubliscum talking points printed on the inside pages, and called it an “alternative budget” (for those of you who may not remember, click here.) Some drunks are high functioning people; Boehner clearly is not one of them. His love of alcohol and tanning booths has absolutely destroyed any capacuity he may have had for formulating an idea on his own.

Today brings us another clear example of this.

Boehner has been promising that he and his Rushpubliscum colleagues have been working on an “alternative” to the President’s push for the expansion of healthcare coverage in America. What, then, has he finally come up with, after all this time of supposedly working on a plan that would supposedly cover people better and cut costs more significantly than anything the dems have come up with?

The “Boehner Plan” looks like it was written by the CEO of Aetna. Anyone with the cognitive abilities of a 10 year old would take a short look at this and see that it is chock-full of benefits and protections-but all of them are for the health insurers. Missing from this plan are two things: extending coverage to the uninsured, and holding down costs. “Boehner’s” plan would jettison just about all of the remaining regulations off health insurers-AND his insurer bagmen would also get protection from tort laws. For the murderous health insurance corporations, this bill is truly a gift.

I assume that Junket John will be heading for some exotic golf course soon at the health insurers’ expense. Or maybe he won’t; the guy stays so drunk that they could probably borrow some background scenery from a studio, put it up in a warehouse, and convince Boehner that they’d brought him to a tropical paradise.

This “Boehner/Rushpubliscum” plan is really, really pathetic. Check it out.

The new GOP health care plan expands “coverage” and “choice” by permitting health insurers to sell policies across state lines. Under the Republican proposal, the insurer can choose a ‘primary state’ “whose covered laws shall govern the health insurance issuer” and can change states “upon renewal of the policy.” Page 129 requires a “health insurance issuer” to “provide the following notice” informing consumers in so-called ’secondary states’ that the policy is “not subject to all of the consumer protection laws or restrictions on rate changes of the state.” Here is the notice, as it is described in the legislation:

The GOP is conceding the progressive argument. Specifically, it is admitting that insurance companies would have little incentive to continue doing business under certain state rules which “require that companies issue coverage to all new customers and not set higher rates for people who are already sick.” Instead, companies could chose a state with scarce regulations and sell policies that don’t provide mental health parity, cancer screenings, or abide by regulations that limit the rates that can be charged to higher-cost consumers. This way, plans can attract the healthiest applicants and detract the sick.

I’d be embarrassed to even submit this shit. But I’d also be embarrassed about a lot of other things Boehner has done. I guess there are some advantages to drunken ignorance after all. Being in a stupor all the time means you don’t remember anything you might be sorry about.

The local Sheriff is talking about purring up a primary challenge to this drunken embarrassment. If he does, I will vote in the Rushpubliscum Primary for him, such is my disgust with this corrupt, alcoholic, useless leech.

Is it any wonder Boehner can’t crack 15% in approval ratings?

Tags: boehner, failure, healthcare, ignorance, rushpublicans

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