As Republicans work to derail the President’s health care reform effort, they seem uncertain about their own health care agenda. After agreeing to “develop real solutions to improve our health care system” in February, pledging to “lead the effort to make health care work for Americans” in March, insisting that “no report or headline can take the place of a comprehensive plan” in June, and arguing that the Republican plan is “actually much more detailed than their [Democratic] plan has been” in July, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), chair of the GOP Health Care Solutions Group, is unsure if Republicans want to fix health care through legislation.

Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-SC) introduced the Patients’ Choice Act during HELP Committee mark-up, but House Republicans have yet to rally behind a single alternative or offer any substantive details or legislative language. On Wednesday, Blunt said, “Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they’ve got to whatever we’re offering right now?”

But today, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the Republican whip, suggested that Republicans would divert “attention” from the Democrats’ plan. “We have plenty of plans, we have a plan out there, we have legislation out there…we will have a bill, and we have bills”:

We will have a bill, and we have bills, I mean this is what I don’t understand about the question, we have bills there is a Republican plan out there …will it be in the form of an amendment, will it be in the form of a bill. I mean we have several bills out there, with pay-fors, with a vision and direction for where we need to go … We’ve got plenty of alternative bills out there, I mean this is where I think some of the confusion lies is that the Republican alternatives are numerous.

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Blunt and Cantor, who routinely misrepresent and fear-monger about the Democratic proposal, also blamed Democrats for their own failure to produce legislation, falsely suggesting that “the majority would not let us offer our ideas…we can’t bring our ideas forward if they won’t have the meetings to let us bring them forward.”

In lieu of detailed legislation or any meaningful proposal to pay for reform or lower overall health care spending, Republicans have offered glossy talking points and so-called “principles for reform.” While they claim to support the existing employer-based system of coverage and “allowing Americans to keep what they have,” a close examination of their half-baked proposals suggests that Republicans would only break-up employer-based coverage, endanger the coverage of Americans with pre-existing conditions, and drive-up health care spending.

Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) denied that doctors supported the health care bill now moving through the House and attacked the American Medical Association for endorsing the legislation:

REPORTER: What is your reaction to the AMA’s endorsement of Obama’s plan?

BOEHNER: I have yet to talk to a doctor who is supporting the plan that is moving through the House. And for the American Medical Association to come out in support of this plan, even though I would think a great majority of their doctors are opposed to it, strikes me as inconsistent at best.

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If Boehner hasn’t “talk[ed] to a doctor who is supporting the plan that is moving through the House,” then he isn’t getting out much. In fact, the grassroots doctors organization Doctors For America has 360 members in Boehner’s home-state of Ohio, and 13,642 doctors nationwide who support the major tenets of the House bill: expanding affordable coverage, ending the discriminatory practices of insurance companies, offering Americans the choice of a public option, re-orienting the incentives in the health care system to reward quality of care and allowing doctors to spend more time with patients, and giving doctors and patients more information about medical treatments and procedures.

“As physicians, we witness the terrible consequences of the health care crisis everyday. We see millions of hard working Americans struggling to pay their premiums and worrying that a single hospitalization may force them into foreclosure or bankruptcy. As a physician, this is why I want to see health reform for my patients and for our country,” DFA President Vivek Murthy said. In an interview with the Wonk Room, Murthy explained why doctors support the major tenets of the House plan. Watch it:

Similarly, in its endorsement of the House bill, the American Medical Association applauds the legislation for recognizing “that fundamental Medicare reforms, including repeal of the sustainable growth rate formula, are essential to the success of broader health system reforms,” investing in chronic disease management, and addressing the primary physician shortage.

Having obstructed health care reform in Congress, Boehner will now go back to Ohio, where some 390 people are losing their health care every day. If he wants to “talk” to “doctors” or even constituents who support the House bill, all he has to do is listen.