Brad Miller NC-13 Distorting the Opposition's Position on Health Care because his is indefensible...

From the newsobserver.com. we get this parroting of Brad Millers distortions....

Miller said the bill that passed Congress is very similar to past Republican health insurance proposals.

"This is the Howard Baker, Bob Dole, Mitt Romney health insurance plan," Miller said, referring to two former GOP Senate majority leaders and the former Massachusetts governor.

Similar? What plan could this be? I had thought that Miller would have stuck with the "Republican's have offered nothing of their own" line often repeated by his party. There was no information beyond the quote, though, so I did a little research.

Apparently Brad Miller conflated two of his talking points, as he was likely referencing Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health insurance plan and a second plan devised by group of out of power politicians. (Tom Daschel, George Mitchell, Bob Dole, Howard Baker)

Why Brad Miller would reference the Massachusetts plan is beyond me. It is distinctive in that it is the plan most like ObamaCare on the state level, but its bigger claim to fame is that it is not working and that it is becoming unsustainable.

As for Brad Miller's mythical republican plan, I found an article on TNR that describes what Brad Miller was referring to.

Earlier this year, a group of former Senate majority leaders--Republicans Howard Baker and Bob Dole, along with Democrats Tom Daschle and George Mitchell--showed how that might be accomplished. After negotiating with each other for more than a year, as if they were still in office and representing their two parties, the group (minus Mitchell, who had since joined the administration) unveiled a fully fledged health care reform proposal in June. They released it through
the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank they’d establish precisely to advance proposals like these. And, at least on paper, it looked like the kind of scheme members of both parties could support in good conscience.

The Center’s proposal had the same basic architecture as the plan Obama put forward in his presidential campaign and that congressional committees have been debating this year. Everybody would have to get insurance; in exchange, government would make sure everybody could get insurance, by subsidizing the cost for those who needed financial assistance--and by creating a marketplace in which people without access to employer policies could get coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions.

(Emphasis Added)

There was no plan that was in any way similar to Obamacare introduced by Republicans. Although there were plans and ideas offered, they were ignored, as they did not sufficiently shift the power and influence of being a consumer to the government away from the people, leaving the people in the unenviable position of being a business cost.

Brad Miller is misleading North Carolina.
Disingenuous.

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