1. Either Congress will not fix Obamacare, or their "fix" will do absolutely nothing to address the underlying problems with it.
2. Insurance companies roll out their 2018 renewals to their customers in late 2017, with massive increases in the premiums.
3. The Trump administration announces that its IRS waiver for the 2016 tax returns -- in which the mandate was effectively repealed for taxpayers filing their returns in 2017 who didn't want to tell the IRS that they were not insured in 2016 -- will be extended for 2017 as well.
4. The Trump administration then announces that -- under the authority vested in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) -- it will grant waivers to any insurance carrier that comes up with a plan that actually saves people money, regardless of whether this plan actually meets any of the regulatory requirements of Obamacare.
Case closed. Obamacare is effectively repealed, and President Donald J. Trump comes out looking like the white in shining armor who rode into Washington and fixed a problem that the @ssholes infesting the swamp couldn't fix themselves.
Ping to Post #11. I think I see an interesting scenario here.
I can go with that scenario.
The affected people are a minority of a minority. Most Americans are either insured where they work or on Medicare. When all mandated insurance is either outrageously expensive or actually worthless, A private plan put forward to reflect reality and catastrophic care priced at a reasonable rate will be acceptable by those in the uninsured minority.
I don’t understand—what does the insurance company need a waiver from? Especially if they already are not participating in Obamacare?
One problem with your fix. The next President can justgo back to OC as written.