In a core plank of the “Pledge to America” unveiled last week, the GOP leadership of the House of Representatives promised to repeal Obamacare and put in place “real” health care reform. Insofar as Obamacare represents a massive transfer of wealth and gums up the health care industry with over-regulation, it does need to be scrapped, shredded and incinerated.
But the Pledge’s idea of what constitutes reform inspires little confidence that Republicans have a credible alternative to runaway costs and shrinking access to health care. Indeed, the vacuous verbiage of the Pledge suggests that its authors have only the most superficial understanding of what ails America’s health care system and will fail miserably to fix the problem when they take charge of the House next year, as they seem poised to do.
