GOP Kicked 5 Million Off Insurance Since Sept.

The GOP delays reform in hope of killing it.

(HuffPo)

"The demographic that stands to gain the most from an increase in insurance coverage happens to represent the fastest-expanding voting bloc.

"More than 41 percent of Hispanic Americans are uninsured, Gallup reports, which is by far the largest segment of the U.S. population. The next highest groups are those who make less than $36,000 a year (28.6 percent uninsured) and those aged 18 to 29 (27.6 percent)."

— Sam Stein (Huffington Post)

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The Republicans have one plan, to end employer-sponsored healthcare and leave everyone out on the open market, victim to the whims of a capricious industry that makes money by denying treatment to those who need it.

"It is hard not to see the benefits for the political party that steps up to help resolve the health care problems of millions of Hispanic and young Americans. Just as, conversely, it is conceivable that the party that is blamed for obstructing comprehensive reform could suffer serious consequences at the polls."

Republicans are concerned about the cost of healthcare to business, not the cost of healthcare. They want to do nothing to bring down the price, only to shift any responsibility for the provision of healthcare coverage away from employers.

But the GOP's own internal polling finds Americans want a public plan an trust the Democrats over republicans to reform healthcare.

"According to the OMI survey, Republicans are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to the health care debate. For starters, 48 percent of the public said they trusted Democrats to 'fix the health care problem in America.' Only 29 percent said the same for Republicans. Meanwhile, 58 percent of respondents said that they favored 'creating a government run health insurance agency that will compete with private insurance companies,' while only 35 percent were opposed."

The GOP suddenly supports taxation of healthcare benefits, arguably the only reform they've offered, because it will encourage businesses to drop healthcare benefits altogether.

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