Posted on 01/10/2017 12:22:40 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Lickety-split.
I don’t know if the repeal-and-delay talk was just a trial balloon, or if it was never really under serious consideration. But there was never much enthusiasm - from the conservative base or from anyone else - for the idea of repealing ObamaCare quickly but then taking an extended period of time to come up with a replacement. And apparently both Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have gotten the message.
And the replacement plan is.......?
replacement statute:
“An Act to Correct the Function of Government.....
1. Whereas taxpayer assistance, if any, with an individual’s payment for his/her personal health services is a matter for state, not federal, consideration, ObamaCare (sic) is hereby repealed. The federal government has no constitutional authority to spend taxpayers’ funds in this manner.
2. Any person who is interested in securing public funding assistance for his personal expenses is hereby directed to make inquiry of his or her state of citizenship to determine what such assistance the state, in its political wisdom, may have determined to provide.
3. End.
whatever ryan and mcconnell want to do. do the opposite.
That would be hugely popular with me and about another 2% to 3% of the US population.
there are a LOT more of us out here than that, ha!
HSAs or Medicaid. Your choice.
I wrote to my Congressman and Senators last evening indicating that they have had 7 years to work out a replacement plan. If that has not been done and is not ready for the incoming President to sign within days, that is gross dereliction of duty.
And the people who make too much for Medicaid and whose employers don't offer an HSA? What about them?
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But if Trumpcare needs new federal powers, then Trump, McConnell and Ryan need to propose a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution to the states.
Note that lawless Obama’s Democrat-controlled Congress blatantly ignored a resolution for a constitutional healthcare amendment when it established unconstitutional Obamacare.
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right of citizens of the United States to health care of equal high quality." —H. J. Res. 30.
And it remains that the states don’t have to ratify a proposed healthcare amendment if they feel that they can work INTRAstate healthcare programs better than a national healthcare program.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
NO DELAY AT ALL, DUMBASSES!!!! WHAT DON:T YOU UNDERSTAND??? STEP ON IT!!!
You asked about the replacement plan. That’s probably going to be it. You choose one or the other. One will barely cover the basics and the other brings down your AGI.
You can buy your own insurance and not be subject to being forced to buy a plan with abortion and hysterectomy coverage if you’re a 28 year old single man.
Don’t worry, the GOP will screw this up royally.
Maybe a full repeal will encourage business to restore the 40 hour workweek for their employees so people don't have to scramble between 2-3 jobs to make up what they lost pre-Obamacare.
-PJ
If it were up to me, the replacement would be changing tax laws, tort reform, free markets.
These two hacks have had 6 years to come up with a plan.
If they can afford it. One unfortunate side effect of Obamacare is that it's shown the insurance companies that they can jack up their rates to astronomic levels and people will still buy it. That's not going to change unless government gets out of it entirely and doesn't provide any subsidies of any kind. Rates may then come down since there won't be a floor provided by the feds.
You’ll have to convince me a bunch of lawyers will stick a knife in the back of their fellow lawyers for tort reform. They’re a club with vastly different motivations.
Well, I guess if we can’t afford to pay for our own health care anymore we’ll just have to let the govt do it for us. Good thing we have them around to take care of us. I’d really hate to be on my own with all that freedom that that entails.
The rates are based on one size fits all plans, subsidies, reducing competition, and increasing government and private bureaucracy.
Obamacare also got rid of doctor-owned hospitals which is probably one of the best cost efficiencies.
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