President Trump Fights Tooth And Nail To Pass The American Health Care Act

If President Trump’s replacement for ObamaCare does not pass, it is my opinion after my research, Americans will regret it. ObamaCare is imploding as we speak There are Americans who have paid for ObamaCare, but the deductibles have been so high they have never actually used it. Others have just paid the penalty, but do not have insurance to show for that money spent. Insurance companies are opting out every day. It is a mess that has damaged so many American lives, it is hard to put into words.

President Trump had a meeting with many Americans from around the Country at the White House, and I would advise every American to watch this video if you truly want to understand the state of healthcare in our Country.

For those of you who are opposed to Trump’s and Ryan’s replacement for ObamaCare, you are probably going to be happy to learn things are not progressing as Trump and Ryan had hoped. The Republican plan to replace Obamacare — backed vehemently by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan — continued to bleed support from moderate House members Thursday morning just hours before an expected vote.

Here’s the rest, Pimpy McPimpface:

However, the true opposition comes from the members of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of about three dozen Republicans who have long threatened to tank the bill because of what they say are inadequate measures to repeal Obamacare and reduce health care premiums for constituents. “If this goes down, we’re all screwed,” said one Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity. If it does not go down, in my opinion, we are all screwed.

However, for small business leaders this ObamaCare replacement will allow them to at last be able to manage insurance matters between their own needs and the needs of their employees. It is what they have prayed for. Randy Bradley, owner of Burger Kings in Iowa and Missouri for the past 27 years, said he is rooting for the House Republicans proposal to replace Obamacare, especially the Trump-endorsed American Health Care Act’s (AHCA) plan to eliminate Obamacare’s employee mandate provision.

According to Bradley, who employs more than 80 people, Obamacare’s employee mandate – which requires that all businesses with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees provide health insurance to at least 95% of staff and dependents up to age 26, or pay a fee – caused some of his workers to receive worse insurance than they previously had and other employees to experience up to a 20 percent reduction in wages.

“Basically, the government interfered and told me I couldn’t provide my managers with that premium level of coverage anymore and my only option was to provide them with Obamacare,” Bradley told FOX Business. “Furthermore, even if I wanted to reimburse my managers for the premiums they paid for purchasing their own insurance on the open marketplace, I couldn’t without facing major fines.”

Prior to Obamacare, Bradley said he provided his managers with a competitive group health care insurance policy, in which he contributed 75% of the premium and half of the deductible. However, a non-discrimination clause in Obamacare prevented Bradley from providing this plan to his managers if he didn’t also provide the same plan to his hourly-wage employees, which he said would have bankrupt his business within three to four months.

Implemented under Obamacare, according to Section 4980D of the Internal Revenue Code, if business owners reimburse employees the premiums they paid for purchasing their own insurance on the open marketplace, they are subject to a $100 penalty, per day, per employee — or $36,500 per employee annually.

As for Bradley’s non-managerial, hourly-wage staff, he said a majority experienced a loss in wages due to Obamacare, and many still didn’t qualify for employer-based coverage while many of those who did chose not to take it.

A full-time employee, which must be provided insurance under the Obamacare employer mandate, is categorized as someone that works 30 hours or more per week. Therefore, Bradley said his employees who were working anywhere from 31-40 hours per week had their hours cut down to below 30, thereby not receiving insurance as intended by Obamacare, but actually losing hours, thus wages. For Bradley’s other hourly-wage employees that kept their full-time, 30-plus hour schedule, Bradley was required to offer them Obamacare, in which he would pay 90.5% of the premium and they would contribute 9.5%.

“Ironically, most of my full-time crew that I offered Obamacare to, didn’t take it, as they felt the penalty they would have to pay for not having it was actually less than they would have to spend on the premium to have the insurance,” said Bradley. Only 4 out of Bradley’s 40 full-time, hourly-wage employees opted for him to provide them with Obamacare.

So for small businesses they are finding exactly what they need in the ObamaCare replacement. What about the elderly? They are saying…”not so much.” The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) opposes the House plan, arguing that it would shorten the life of Medicare, hike costs for those who can least afford higher insurance premiums, risk seniors’ ability to live independently, and give tax breaks to big drug and health insurance companies.

“Older Americans want affordable health care – including less expensive prescription drugs and continued protections for the most vulnerable,” AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond said in a statement released this week. “When Americans over age 50 look at the details of the House health care reform plan, they don’t like what they see. They don’t want big insurance and drug companies to reap massive profits at their expense.”

This truly is my one objection as far as I can see. We cannot hurt our elderly in the Country. If they feel the replacement will be something they cannot live with, we must look again at what we are doing with the replacement to ObamaCare.

However, there are some very positive aspects of the President Trump’s American Health Care Act. He is planning on keeping the good things in ObamaCare. There will still be the clause that pre-existing conditions cannot be held against you. To me, this is extremely crucial to the needs of Americans, and I was glad to see this in ObamaCare.

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