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.
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As long as the mandate becomes null and void on the date it is “repealed”, I’m happy.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).
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.
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.
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.
No need for the government to replace squat. Free market will do the job. Health care and health insurance is not the purview of the government.
:..20 million uninsured people have gained coverage...”
and how many of those had to drop it because it was unaffordable?? I know one such person who experienced that scenario. Then he needed emergency surgery and two hospitals refused to accept him. Surgeons were willing to operate and helped find a hospital. The surgery was successful, but he will be paying for the expenses the rest of his life. No longer able to work construction, last year he found a job paying much less, but with health benefits. (fyi - before Obamacare he had a policy which paid health benefits for catastrophic cases - such as this)
If they do, then they are going directly against what Trump promised. Trump said the old would stop and immediately, with no decernible break, the new healthcare would start.
I heard him say it myself. He was very emphatic.
The incoming Secretary of HHS has proposed a good plan. Get it on the books at the same time as Obamacare is removed. It may take a year to implement the entire package but do not let Congress fiddle-faddle. The old Congressional trick of letting good legislation wait until it fades away won’t work anymore. The people are awake an watching.
Put close and strict time limits on all bills.
“...accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm by consumers, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies...”
Has anyone met a consumer who is enthusiastic about Obamacare? Rates for Arizona are set to skyrocket this year. My sister already pays more for her insurance than her house would rent for on the market. My son pays more for insurance than the apartment he rents.
Hard to get enthusiastic about paying more for health insurance than for your home...
When did the NYT begin to call “President Barack Hussein Obama”
Mr. O’Bama
My, my, the sky it must be falling~
Fake news.
It will take 2017 to get the whole enchilada done.
Day 1 repeal as of dec 31 2017. Free market as of Jan 1 2018 WITH:
Being able to buy across state lines
Being able to choose additional premium to insure kids up to whatever age you want
Being able to choose additional premium to insure a pre-existing condition
I don’t like my $12500 0bamacare compliant deductible. I’m tired of paying for other peoples kids being covered. If you want your kids covered, you pay.
The “delay” par has a few FReepers up in arms - they think he can wave his magic wand and presto - it’s all done instead of having to phase the changes in to prevent absolute chaos.
I wonder what the deductible is for these 20 million who now have health insurance who didn’t have it before.
In my case, both premiums and deductibles have doubled for the same coverage. I never reach the deductible so I never use the insurance anymore. Everything is out of pocket. Is something different for these people who get subsidies to pay the premium? If not, then they have insurance they never get to use either. How are they better off now than before they had insurance?