Healthcare Foes

Let's face it. Republicans don't want changes to healthcare in this country because too many of them are lining their political pockets with dubious goods from insurance and pharmaceutical companies. They will scream to the rafters before they let their money trains come to an end, the rest of the country and the uninsured be damned.

The GOP does not have an alternative healthcare plan. Unless it's just me, I haven't seen any of them scrambling to create one, either.

From Carrie Budoff Brown at CBS News via Politico:

There's no Republican plan [for healthcare] yet. No Republicans leading the charge who have coalesced the party behind them. Their message is still vague and unformed. Their natural allies among insurers, drug makers and doctors remain at the negotiating table with the Democrats.

Yet they will fight tooth and nail any plan presented by the Democrats or President Obama – sight unseen.

Here's an idea: elected GOP members of Congress and the Senate who have nothing to offer in the way of an alternate solution should give up their own plush healthcare plans to see what it's like to live without medical insurance coverage.

Let them give over their own security for the benefit of the millions of Americans wandering around without decent healthcare.