It’s about as fixable and keepable in place, as the HMS Titanic is.
Repeal! Replace with freedom!
Here’s the problem. “Reform”, like “change” is a content free word. “Reform” means different things to different people. If reform meant “allow interstate insurance”, limit malpractice awards and lawyers fees for same, let people pick exactly what they want covered and not covered and priced accordingly, expand usage of MSAs. That would be fine for many, and would be a reform.
Reform for someone else could mean “The government pays for everything and taxes the rich man and corporations as much as necessary to get it”.
So these sizable chunks of polled people really represent two opposed positions. Yes, people want “reform”. There is no consensus on what kind of reform, and taking a Rube Goldberg piece of ... uh ... legislation DESIGNED to be unreadable and interpreted however Obama sees fit makes a poor base.
Sometimes you have to throw the old source code away before trying again. Of course, it may well not be worth trying again. Trying again means in 20 years we end up with Obamacare again, just like our formerly simple tax code became the present mess.
Considering how much money has been wasted on it already,does it make good sense to even think about fixing it? Remember,this is money we don’t have anyway.
Here are the pillars of this corrupt scheme. None of the minor fixes Republicans are discussing comes even close to sweeping away this corruption.
Navigators and assisters: Instead of government employees promoting ObamaCare and enrolling the uninsured, the law (Sec. 1311) reserves these jobs for community activists, unions, community health centers and other not-for-profits. Players include the NAACP, Planned Parenthood and Service Employees International Union. Hiring these groups is a way to fund the Democratic Partys shadow army between elections.
Assisters sign up the uninsured for non-health benefits and register them to vote. The National Association of Community Health Centers identifies voter registration as a key part of its mission.
The whole scheme recalls the days of Tammany Hall, when local ward bosses got the poor and newly arrived whatever they needed, in exchange for their votes. ObamaCare institutionalizes this corrupt model and pays for it with your premiums.
I don’t care what they call it. Get rid of it. Or at least get rid of the subsidies that are going to bust our budget.
The ACA is to health care what a sledge hammer is to a nail, or a flame thrower is to a cigarette.
The masthead should now read: 'Standing athwart history, and yelling, "slow down, just a tad" ... provided that 51% agree.'
Gawd how fallen are the mighty.
Nothing but blather from so-called conservatives.
NR died when Buckley did.
Remove all the Exceptions and Delays and then see if people want to keep Obamacare ? LOL
No matter how bad it gets, Obamacare will never die.
Too much money, too much power. The Feds will never give it up.