Posted on 11/22/2016 4:17:26 PM PST by bobk3
Donald Trump's biggest campaign promise was to get rid of Obamacare, officially misnamed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Soaring premiums under ObamaCare are harming individuals and families and depressing our economy. The sooner ObamaCare is repealed, the better, states the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
President-elect Trump need not wait for Congress, AAPS points out. On his first day in office, Trump can order the IRS not to impose or enforce any penalties against individuals for not purchasing insurance.
"President-elect Trump would not want anyone to be forced to stay in a particular hotel, and Trump rightly opposes forcing Americans to purchase health insurance," observes Jane M. Orient, M.D., executive director of AAPS. "He should end the individual mandate on the first day of his presidency."
"Insurance is by definition voluntary," she continued, "and it is not voluntary if people are forced to buy it at prices far higher than justified by their own risk." She also notes that compelling people to purchase an inferior product they do not want causes prices to increase.
"The fundamental laws of economics cannot be violated for long," states AAPS president Michael J. A. Robb, M.D.
In addition, President-elect Trump should immediately end the taxpayer-funded subsidies on the health care exchanges, which Congress never authorized and the federal district court for D.C. held to be unlawful. Stopping the illegal flow of those subsidies to big insurers would enable free-market and charitable solutions to emerge.
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I don’t know.
I have supported Trump since (before) he announced his candidacy.
But I really don’t think this is what he should do. I think Obamacare helped millions of Americans (myself included) and he should move very carefully about repealing it.
Just saying. REPLACE it.
Don’t repeal it.
I know that absolutely no one on FR will agree with me on this, but I felt all along that Chief Justice Roberts did the nation a favor by creating the convoluted pretzel-logic he did in order to keep Obamacare in place as he did. Had it been declared unconstitutional they would have just jury-rigged some band-aids onto it and tried again, but by sustaining it as long as it has been has allowed everyone to see how utterly horrible it is, and now it will be tossed out completely or at least “bigly” revised. And the American pubilc will be in full support.
That's a good point.
It only helped 15M Americans. There’s approximately 330M of us. It didn’t help me at all.
Trump said “Repeal and Replace” Obamacare.
I agree that is the approach he should take.
Repeal AND REPLACE. Don’t simply bring back what we had. It was an expensive mess, leaving millions uninsured.
The Congressional ban on cross-state-line insurance is what screwed you, nothing else.
It’s called the ‘free market’ approach. If you claim conservatism, you better be for that.
Should be repealed. No need to replace, that’s what the free market is for.
These lower order scum told me that I have to hand over my property to them so that under the guise of protecting my person they could hand over my shit to some retard or other. Sounds like slavery to me. Slavery at the point of an IRS gun. And you say that’s a good thing as some sort of object lesson? Mega-Stupid.
Won’t be a first time. Remember the horrid CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE ACT from about 25 years ago?
It came, was passed, and repealed real quick!
Nope.
What I got Obamacare for, was a combination of two things.
First off, let me say I have (always) had insurance. I never let my coverage expire. Ever.
However I had some surgery. Then I left my job (because jobs there, were being sent overseas, for ten years or more). I stayed there as long as I could, but I finally quit about a year ago.
I have kept my insurance still. I still have it in fact.
But next year my coverage will expire (it only continues outside the company for 16 months).
I would be out of luck, for coverage then, under the original plan.
So I am joining Obamacare.
Because it covers me. Joined recently, and just confirmed my membership for next year.
Trump, or anyone who supports him who is out there, if you read this, I have been a Trump supporter FOREVER. But I strongly support Obamacare, insofar as it covers people who don’t otherwise have coverage.
Congratulations on the presidency.
Laz thanks for your posts, but I really, really don’t want our guy, to simply remove Obamacare.
He needs to carefully FIX it. Not simply removed what is there.
It helps people. Like me.
President Trump should not order the IRS to “not enforce” the law. Lawless governance is what turned decent people off with the current communist, and that should not be repeated.
President Trump should, however, follow precedent and grant Obamacare waivers. Every US citizen and every US company should get a lifetime waiver from all Obamacare mandates, requirements, and penalties. Then we can negotiate the replacement with liberals once they no longer have any leverage to force bad deals.
“The Congressional ban on cross-state-line insurance is what screwed you, nothing else.”
Healthcare is a PRODUCT - just like getting your car fixed, or repairs made to your home. BID THE WORK OUT...but don’t necessarily go with the low bid!
+1, Baby!
(As a Vet, I’m covered by the VA...and I love it! However, Beau loses his insurance at the end of the year, so we’re scrambling.)
Our insurance payments went from being the size of a pesky utility bill per month.....to .... a payment that actually would have bought us a second home, on the beach!!!!!
SO, Obamacare sucks. And I cannot be persuaded that my insurance company didn’t make out like a bandit, especially because my coverage is now so costly that I can’t afford to pay for doctors’ services.
If by 'help' you mean 'put them on Medicaid'. At our expense.
There’s approximately 330M of us. It didn’t help me at all.
Made matters worse for us, in fact.
You’ve gone to the Dark Side.
All because you are uneducated about the Invisible Hand, and because you are being selfish and thinking only about yourself.
I do not agree.
Health insurance is very important. We have built a very expensive, very restrictive system by imposing tons, and tons, and tons of laws restricting the sourcing of medical services, what can be provided, by whom, where, and why.
THAT is what we need to change.
Our medical system is a very very expensive mess.
No other country has the costs we do. Trump seems to get this challenge.
Trump, fix it. But don’t give us what we had before.
FIX IT.
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