Oh, goody. Scott Walker decides to be a health policy wonk.

Rss@dailykos.com (joan Mccarter) · Friday, August 14, 2015, 4:07 pm
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Knowing that to be considered a "serious" presidential candidate you have to have "policies," Scott Walker is diving into health care, and no you don't have to follow that link because it's National Review and you shouldn't follow that link. Because all you need to know is here:
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We must repeal Obamacare in its entirety as soon as possible. But we can’t stop there. The president’s policies must be replaced with a plan that will send power back to the people and the states, fix the decades-old problems of rising medical-care and health-insurance costs, and support economic growth instead of punishing workers and small businesses. We must do all of this while ensuring affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, and removing the fear that something as simple as changing jobs could result in loss of coverage.
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Oh, that's easy, which is why we've seen so many specific Republicans plans that aren't Obamacare vying to be the replacement plan that will do everything Obamacare is currently doing but not be Obamacare. Piece of cake. Of course, there is a plan that would do pretty much all of that (except the "power to the states" bullshit that every Republican has to include): Medicare for all. Because, really, if you want to keep private insurance companies in business, provide universal, affordable insurance, and not turn the bulk of the system into a public one there's pretty much just one way to do it. The way that President Obama and congressional Democrats did it.
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Next week, Walker will release the full details of his "plan." If it includes anything more than tort reform, selling insurance across state lines, and no individual mandate—the only answers Republicans have been able to come up with in five years of trying—then it will simply be Obamacare rewritten as Walkercare.
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