Posted on 12/04/2016 6:57:03 AM PST by ColdOne
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress plan to move almost immediately next month to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as President-elect Donald J. Trump promised. But they also are likely to delay the effective date so that they have several years to phase out President Obama’s signature achievement.
This emerging “repeal and delay” strategy, which Speaker Paul D. Ryan discussed this week with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, underscores a growing recognition that replacing the health care law will be technically complicated and could be politically explosive.
Since the law was signed by Mr. Obama in March 2010, 20 million uninsured people have gained coverage, and the law has become deeply embedded in the nation’s health care system, accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm by consumers, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and state and local governments.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The dems and the media will start the scare tactics right away.
More gaslighting BS. NYT pushing the tiny minority view as if it is a view shared by a majority.
What the hell with all this replacement speak?? The free market is the replacement.
Health-care industry stocks soared and my investments in them soared when Obamacare was passed.
As I’ve stated before, the ULTIMATE END GAME WITH OBAMACARE with copays and increased costs for people with health insurance, with manadatory purchasing of health insurance, taxes for people without health insurance, increased funding for Medicaid for the poor etc. WAS TO INCREASE CASH FLOW INTO HOSPITALS MANY OF WHICH ARE MERGED INTO BIG CORPORATIONS TO MAKE PROFITS.
Mitt Romney, who originated the first Obamacare program in Massachusetts, said ‘freeloaders’ were showing up at hospitals. The health care industry had costs which needed to be bailed out.
The GOP Establishment doesn’t want to hurt those who were having the money sent their way because of Obamacare.
I see. Everyone is 'enthused', it's just a question of degree.
As long as the mandate becomes null and void on the date it is “repealed”, I’m happy.
Will the repeal have an “effective date” built into the wording? If not, anything mandated to anyone in the original law becomes unenforceable.
Many female retirees who just have portion of their the husband's benefits are not able to even afford supplemental insureance.
There has to be winners and losers in any major transformation, especially something that is as universally influential as health-care funding. I wouldn’t be surprised if this strategy is a means of immediately mollifying those (justifiably) dissatisfied with Obamacare, while delaying the blowback for those adversely affected until after the 2018 mid-terms (at which time the GOP would have at least a mathematical chance to get a filibuster-proof Senate).
The New York Times has no earthly idea of what Trump is going to do...They know nothing, but have to devise something to print...
There is more truth on a blank sheet of paper than in the whole NYT....
If Congress simply eliminates the employer mandate and the individual mandate, then they've solved 95% of the problem.
And Trump is going to have to enforce existing anti-trust law to break the medical cartels in order to truly fix health care. That will cause huge campaign funding problems for many GOP politicians. Tough.
Grrrr.
Repeal Obamacare.
Pass targeted narrow fixes for systemic problems (pre-existing conditions, inexpensive catastrophic coverage, individual purchase, allow interstate commerce for insurance).
Done. Market will fix the rest.
I dispute the 20 people have gained coverage claim.
“medical cartels”, no it is government meddling, and over regulation that drive up costs.
Follow the money and spot the alligators. There’s so much swamp to drain.
However, if they fail to get that repeal up and running the executive discretion written into the law will allow Trump to completely gut it before they can shore up their place at the trough.
That’s the replacement. Hopefully along with tort reform.
I agree you cannot repeal and replace on day one. OBamacare was not put in place on day one either.
Repeal so that it is no longer a law. THere are a few concrete steps that can be taken day one and some that will have to play out over a couple of years. People who are currently on Obamacare plans need time to find alternatives. Need to pass laws allowing competition across state lines. THey need to set up catastrophic pools to cover those with most serious illnesses to hold down cost for average consumers. Etc.
Most important is to kill the current law on books while we have momentum and majority.
I’m surprised they didn’t claim 20 million people.../s
Yeah, and even more have lost their coverage.
and the law has become deeply embedded in the nation’s health care system,
and the law has become deeply embedded in the nation's tax system. There. Fixed it.
accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm by consumers, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and state and local governments.
HA! Talk about putting lipstick on a pig. The NYT also put a lacy bra and crotchless panties on it.
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