Posted on 11/30/2016 3:11:14 AM PST by expat_panama
ObamaCare: Tom Price, the Republican congressman and former physician from Georgia, has been named by Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services. For those who harbored any doubts about Trump's commitment to repealing ObamaCare, you can now rest easy.
Price, a former orthopedic surgeon, is known as Congress' most astute critic of the Affordable Care Act, having practiced medicine himself and understanding fully its many flaws. He will be ready on Day One to find a way to replace the 2010 health care law, which was passed by Democrats without a single Republican vote.
We're sure of this because he's already put forward a workable plan, the Empowering Patients First Act, that would vastly improve our nation's health care system without nationalizing it — something that ObamaCare was designed to do eventually.
Price's plan is "a highly detailed legislative proposal that would repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with patient-centered provisions that would control costs and expand coverage in the private health insurance markets," said Robert Moffitt, a senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies.
And, in fact, major elements of Price's plan have already been put into House Speaker Paul Ryan's health care proposal. Look for it to move quickly after Trump takes office.
Among other things, Price proposes giving individuals tax relief for buying health insurance, part of letting them not only own their health insurance but also making it portable from job to job. He also pushes for expanded Health Savings Accounts...
...Price is the best man to do it. Not only is he a doctor, he's also the current chairman of the House Budget Committee. He knows where all the levers and buttons are to make the congressional budget machinery work...
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One major provision in the Unaffordable Care Act which needs to go is the damnable mandates. If I choose not to stuff drugs up my nose or alcohol down my gullet, I should not be forced to subsidize those which do.
Wow, a $12,500 deductible?! I’ve been complaining because ours is around $3,000.
Thank God for Trump.
Tom Price exposes the RAT luebthat the GOP offered no alternative. But we never heard about it from the DNC operatives masquerading as journalists, did we? Price has his work cut out for him but he is arguably the best man for the job.
I’m all for that even more if makes democrats commit hari-kiri.
Ha... send them out to arrest the illegals....just use their existing access to the tax returns to identify them.
any that object are deputized as border control agents and sent down to the border.....after the required 100 arrests they can be assigned to airports etc.
Singapore has a possible model to look at. You pay into a general fund and are responsible for to maintain your health. However, the system will cover you for catastrophic care if you acquire something terminal and catastrophic.
The point I don’t understand is funding insurance with tax credits
If you already pay no taxes and can claim no credit, what good is it?
Anyone who got subsidies must pay them back.
My best friend is a receptionist. Her insurance for her, her disabled husband and son is $900 a MONTH with a $4,000 deductible for just her. Not sure what it is for her dependents, She makes $32,000/yr and they are going to lose their house unless something changes quickly.
Them that don't have incomes pay no taxes on income have no tax credits to buy stuff; iow, if you can't afford it you can't buy it. That last part is something I learned way back when I got my first allowance and it'll will be nice to have more folks in the U.S. finally catch on.
This is not hard hearted thinking, while there will always be charities for the deserving poor we still have to learn the difference between charity and a business transaction. The prob w/ Ocare is that it's a handout portrayed as a business transaction.
He warned us that he'd be winning so much that folks would beg him to just lose a little bit becuase there was too much winning and he said he was never going to let up. The American people voted for winning so they're just going to have to live it it... ;)
A while back a lib friend of mine objected to my using the false made up name "Obamacare", but in reality the "ACA" is just another false made up name. The official title is "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", so the correct acronym really should be the Pee Pee ACA.
One of the unforeseen consequences of Obamacare is that it has allowed the insurance companies to search for a rate ceiling. A point where when they charge that amount then people begin to drop out because they can't afford it. They haven't found it yet, as your reluctant willingness to pay an exorbitant amount for minimal coverage shows. Even if you do away with Obamacare and replace it with Price's plan then I don't see where the insurance companies will have any incentive to lower their premiums. You're replacing one subsidy with another, only taking away the income caps that came with Obamacare. The only way to apply pressure to the insurance companies is to do away with government subsidies altogether. Insurance companies will have to react and offer more affordable options or they will lose a large percentage of their customers.
Repeal, don't replace.
You get tax credits regardless of whether you pay taxes or not. If you make $100,000 and through deductions pay $10,000 in income tax then a $2000 tax credit will reduce your tax bill to $8,000. If you make $30,000 and through deductions pay $0 in taxes then the government would cut you a check for the $2000 credit. It's an Obamacare subsidy under a different name.
You are correct..... I used to say Pee Pee ACA but I just shortened it.
Exactly,this is just what I posted yesterday on another article! My husband and I can afford the deductible and premium, but over 4 years it costs $100,000 at a time we need to be saving for retirement at ages 62 and 65. Are we really using $100,000 of health care? NO! This is unaffordable for most people! Get rid of it now before bankrupting more people. Seriously- a law that requires Americans to buy a product that bankrupts them?
>>Let insurance companies sell across state lines...
I really don’t think this will make much difference. As opposed to auto insurance where you are largely looking for someone to just cut you a check when you have an accident, health insurance is more about buying into a network of doctors and hospitals that can use. Can an insurer operating out of Nevada set up a network in Alabama that would be more attractive to consumers than an insurer operating in the state?
He could, but why would he want to go to the time and expense to do so for a handful of customers? And why would the people in Alabama want to buy his insurance when every claim they make will cost them the out-of-network deductibles and copays?
Competition works in environments that encourage new companies to enter into new markets. Healthcare insurance is designed to discourage that.
I spoke with my friend this morning and her deductible for the entire family is $9000 for the year. She is paying $10,800 in insurance premiums and has a $9000 deductible which costs her $20,000, over half of her salary for medical - they pray that nothing catastrophic happens because they cannot afford ramen noodles at this point. With taxes and other deductions, she is bringing home around $1100 a month.
Oh, and she doesn’t have dental or vision and will not go to the doctor for things she needs to have seen unless it is a dire emergency.
But illegals don’t have to pay a cent but get gold care treatment.
And one more step away from a flat tax.
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