Uh, I Think You Forgot the "Commonsense Solutions" Part

According to the text on Rob Wittman's YouTube channel, "Congressman Wittman has released this video outlining the core framework of a commonsense alternative to nationalized healthcare in America." OK, so I listened to this several times and the only "solutions" I heard were:

1. "We want to make sure that you can continue to keep the insurance that you have that works for you."

2. "We want to make sure that we foster the patient-provider relationship."

3. "We also want to make sure that we are reducing costs...by becoming more efficient; we can also do that by making sure that we encourage healthy lifestyles."

That's right, that's it: 1) do something that everybody already agrees on and add nothing new to the conversation; 2) who the heck knows how Rep. Wittman plans to help you "foster the patient-provider relationship"; and 3) magically reduce costs by becoming "more efficient" (how?) and by somehow encouraging "healthy lifestyles." On that latter point, it's utterly laughable to think that red meat/Neanderthal/"taxes are evil" Republicans are going to start telling people to stop eating McDonalds and drinking Coca Cola (let alone slapping on a "junk food tax"), to drive less and walk more (let alone slapping on a gasoline tax to discourage driving), etc.

In sum, Republicans can claim all they want to have ideas, "commonsense solutions" or whatever, but on this issue and many others (energy, foreign policy, you name it), they simply don't have a clue.