Article snippet: Posted at 5:30 pm on July 13, 2017 by J. Cal Davenport To stand with Republicans recently has been difficult, for reasons ranging from the fact that experienceless celebrity Kid Rock may run for U.S. Senate in my home state of Michigan, to the embarrassing, status quo-maintaining health care reform bills put forward in the GOP-controlled Congress. This has prompted Democrats to forego attempts to make their party attractive — in spite of their massive electoral losses beginning in 2010 — and instead to opt for the slogan “Have you seen the other guys?” They hung their hat on that slogan too soon. A small group of ten congressional Democrats have offered their own plan to fix Obamacare — which, to be fair, means that they have accepted that it is broken. The plan could not be more a caricature of liberal policies if it were a satirical GOP cartoon: spend more and increase government control. To the fair-minded reader, that may sound like hyperbole, but it barely is. Vox reported on the bill, stating that “the proposal includes more funding to help insurance plans cover the sickest patients, along with possibly changing the timing of the open enrollment season in hopes of attracting more Americans to sign up for insurance.” More specifically, the plan is to stabilize the individual market by doing the following three things: Again, the plan is to spend more — on a permanent fund and on subsidies — and to increase government control by doubling down on the enforcem... Link to the full article to read more