The GOP Really Can Improve Obamacare
Governor Bobby Jindal has smart ideas to refine the health-care law
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has offered an alternative to Obamacare. His blueprint follows a plan initiated by Republican Senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch in January. More such GOP proposals are expected to emerge.
Why, four years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, are Republicans now offering alternatives? It may be thanks to enrollment on the state and federal insurance exchanges, which has rooted the law more firmly into the U.S. health-care system: It’s suddenly harder for opponents to denigrate it without suggesting what would be better.