And these are the ones who are going to turn around and vote for Democrat candidates in House and Senate elections all across America in 2018 if their insurance premiums are even one penny higher in 2018 than they are in 2017.
There isn’t any bill that will reduce costs in an aging population. You know this.
Sure there is. Reduce the Medicare eligibility age to 50. That will put a huge cohort of people on a government-run plan that reduces cost simply by setting its own rates for medical procedures.
P.S. -- I don't give a sh!t about Obamacare one way or another, so it's easy for me to "stand with Trump" on this one. After my own medical insurance disaster last year I figured out a way to get an Obamacare exemption and worked around the system myself. Personally, it wouldn't matter to me if insurance premiums tripled every month for the next two years, or if every insurer went out of business tomorrow.
FYI the easiest avoidance of the mandate is online work and relocate out of country. Unless you are in the US 180 straight days, you don’t have the individual mandate. And healthcare elsewhere is much less.
I think a market premium at age 50 for Medicare would be a great solution. More revenue shoring up Medicare, and the more expensive population out of the private insurance population.
Raise Medicare age to 75 - giving more people to Medicare is like giving more children to the Sun God. I refuse to be put on that altar.
Better - give people x bucks a month for medical issues, to save or spend. Best. Get out of picking winners and losers completely. Least likely yet best possible solution.