Force Congress, government workers and the UNIONS who fought so hard for obamacare to actually use it for their own health care.
Change would come pretty quickly.
The ACA is full of code sections that defer to the HHS Secretary. Congress was abdicating their authority to the Exec branch again.
President Trump should use this to restructure the ACA.
"Unlike Republican members of Congress, Trump can use his pen to fundamentally transform ObamaCare."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I suspect that Congress gave the Oval Office this Obamacare-related power to give lawless, second-term presidents the power to do Congress’s unpopular, unconstitutional dirty work for it so that career lawmakers could keep their voting records clean.
It’s good that this Oval Office back door for adjusting Obamacare is now possibly backfiring in Congress’s face thanks to Pres. Trump.
MAGA !
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
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 make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“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 [emphases 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.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
Public Law 111-148 - "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"
SEC. 1513. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYERS.
(a) In General. -- Chapter 43 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is
amended by adding at the end the following:
[...]
``(d) Definitions and Special Rules.--For purposes of this section--
``(4) Full-time employee.--
``(A) In general.--The term `full-time employee'
means an employee who is employed on average at least 30
hours of service per week.
``(B) Hours of service.--
<> The Secretary, in
consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall
prescribe such regulations, rules, and guidance as may
be necessary to determine the hours of service of an
employee, including rules for the application of this
paragraph to employees who are not compensated on an
hourly basis.
I don’t know if it has something to do with the coming eclipse or what, but...
Lindsey Graham is - all of a sudden - the most correct voice on health care!
The plan he described on Fox and Friends is better than ANYTHING Trump, Ryan or anyone else has proposed since the election.
He is suggesting we do what Freedom-lovers such as some folks here should favor 100%. Turn health-care dollars (block grants) back to the states and get the feds the hell out of the mix.
I don’t know if Graham is suggest this part too, but obviously I would also sunset the block grants in a couple years so the fed are not even involved in that part too.
Make full time 41 hours in that mandate