Bad Medicine: Republicans Enter the Healthcare Debate--Posing As Democrats (Liberties‪)‬

LATE AT NIGHT on Saturday, Nov. 7, nationalized health insurance--and eventually a government takeover of healthcare--took a giant leap forward. Among the 177 Congressional Republicans, only one voted for the bill, but the party deserves more blame than it has received for the country's drift toward socialized medicine. Republicans had ten months to offer what they claim to want: a free-market alternative to ObamaCare. Instead, they introduced Obama-lite, clad in a free-market mantle. Only at the last minute, as House debate on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's monstrosity was set to begin, did Minority Leader John Boehner introduce the first GOP bill. It had a few good ideas, but it was hardly a free-market proposal, much less a serious alternative.