Posted on 08/19/2017 7:59:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Health care is at the front line in a power play for America. A White House official announced Wednesday that the Trump administration will continue President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional payment of cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies to insurers through August.
Despite outward appearances and media commentary, this is not ultimately about health care. The Affordable Care Act is focused on nationwide leveling of American incomes. Redistribution of workers’ wages is taking place through skyrocketing premium subsidies and billions in illegal CSR subsidies.
Congress never appropriated money for CSR payments, which are estimated to be around $10 billion in 2018. The payments are a violation of President Donald Trump’s oath of office to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, just as they were a violation of Obama’s oath of office.
Obama didn’t let his oath get in the way. Without the cash, insurers would have refused to participate in the Obamacare exchanges. With the cash, Obama’s legacy act didn’t immediately crash and burn, and health plans got billions in guaranteed tax dollars every year.
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives discovered the unauthorized payments, sued and won on constitutional grounds. Only Congress has the power of the purse. Unfortunately, the judge let the payments continue pending appeal.
President Trump says he wants Obamacare to implode. He has the power to do it and no one can stop him, but he must act to:
-Shut down the CSR payments.
-Drop the administration’s appeal of U.S. House v. Price, admit that payments violate the U.S. Constitution and use his oath of office to protect it.
-Order the end of “special contribution” payments that members of Congress and their staff secured through the Obama administration to subsidize their Obamacare premiums.
Trump’s delay in using his executive power to stop the Affordable Care Act is dangerous—unless you’re a fan of socialized medicine. With enough time, and in the face of fear-mongering and left-leaning reporters who refuse to discuss the redistribution scheme, right-leaning politicians will cave to uninformed public pressure and fully install national health care in America—run by health plans skilled in siphoning billions from taxpayers.
Want evidence? In the wee hours of July 28, after the “skinny repeal” bill failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell intimated the possibility of saving the CSR subsidies: “Bailing out insurance with no thought of any kind of reform is not something that I want to be part of.” The week of September 4, the GOP-led Senate HELP Committee plans to hold hearings on a “bipartisan ACA stabilization bill,” which will likely offer to authorize the payment of CSR subsidies that have been unlawfully paid by Obama for years to keep the ACA from imploding.
Truth is scarce in the Left’s drive to socialize medicine—unless you listen carefully.
After the ACA passed, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said the law would correct the “maldistribution of income” across the country. Thus, the ACA is a clever economic strategy to socialize the incomes of American men and women through the health care system—using health plans.
Health plans are not health insurers. They are socialized medicine systems under corporate cover. Former Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass.) got them started with the HMO Act of 1973, its $375 million in development funding and a mandate that certain employers offer an HMO. The ACA, which prohibits true insurance (major medical indemnity policies), gave the entire market to the health plans, which increasingly centralize citizen dollars, patient data and physician medical decisions under one corporate structure. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Pegram v. Herdrich that Congress “has promoted the formation of HMOs for 27 years” and “inducement to ration care is the very point of any HMO scheme.”
So here we are, at a crucial moment for the future of America. Trump can act decisively and swiftly to assure a future of freedom, or delay and put freedom in dire danger. Implosion will lead states to do what they should have done from the very beginning: use their 10th Amendment powers and tell the federal government and its confiscatory redistribution scheme to take a hike.
There’s a country to protect. Freedom is on the line.
President Trump, are you listening?
End it all, Trump, please. Oh please...
Trump challenged the congress to pass the bill for him that they sent to obama; all he has to do is simply what he promised in his campaign. Stopping these illegal payments, especially to congressmen and their staffs, would be a nice motivator for them to move.
If he fails to do this, he will just show himself as another gutless liar of a politician.
It's obvious that Trump will soon stop the payments if nothing is done on ObamaCare so the insurance companies must either withdraw or set their 2018 price assuming they will have to cover all the costs of ObamaCare without government bailouts.
As the article states, ObamaCare is completely dead without the bailout fund due to the astronomical price increase on already unaffordable premiums
So Trump forces Americans to face up to the true costs of the Obamacare without having to take the direct blame for imploding ObamaCare
Yeah, I’m sure he’ll get right on that.
Trump has, and is listening...its the lying POS’s in CONgress that don’t listen or act in OUR interests. When they force Trump out of office, and that is their goal, they will pay a heavy price. We will force them out of office. If Trump can get the voter fraud under control, they are doomed.
Twila rocks been following her for years in MN. She should be working in the White House pushing health care repeal.
the swamp and deep
state have essentially won.
Do not expect any real reforms from Trump.
It was a good try and thankfully Hillary is out, but Trump is never going to implement his plans.
IMHO, The sure way to guarantee impeachment is to end the congresscritters’ healthcare gravy train. There are several very important things to pass - The Wall, Tax Cuts, Infrastructure, before that drastic move. Passing those 3 would make Trump more secure with more voters. THEN repeal that gravy train and explain it to the voters. Most don’t realize what’s going on.
It is a massive new permanent welfare program disguised as insurance.
Unsustainable wealth transfer pure and simple.
Whatchoo gonna do? ♩ ♬ do? whatcho gonna? do?
Whatchoo gonna do? ♫ when you run out of taxpayers? ♬, run out of tax money and they come for you? ♬
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And Al Sharpie is your president and Jessie Jackass your vice???
Getting lots of rope will last what? Coulpla hours?
It’s obvious that Trump will soon stop the payments if nothing is done on ObamaCare so the insurance companies must either withdraw or set their 2018 price assuming they will have to cover all the costs of ObamaCare without government bailouts.
If Trump stops paying Congress will just pass a law funding it and making the payments legal. No good option here. The beltway sewer is totally out of control.
Then What?
“Trump has, and is listening...its the lying POS’s in CONgress that don’t listen or act in OUR interests”
This ^^^^^ Their egos are bigger than what is best for the country.
Congress can pass all the laws they want.
The President doesn't have to comply!
OBammidiot validated That Imbecility!!
The justice warriors with their silly full-face masks, backpacks, sticks stones and bricks can resolve the resulting mess and riots until the Army and the National guards can clean up the resulting garbage...
Congress can pass all the laws they want.
The President doesn’t have to comply!
The reality is POTUS is alone in the beltway now. His party has completely abandoned him. Congress will just override any strong stands he take on Obamacare.
The final touch from the money and "safe place": Fairy.
“its the lying POS’s in CONgress that don’t listen or act in OUR interests”
President Trump needs to do a “take it to the people” campaign-style tour - explaining in easily-understood terms - in order to get his message through - and especially focusing on Congress’ and Senate’s unwillingness to get rid of obamacare - and why. That’s a start.
“The power over Healthcare is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, therefore the power over Healthcare is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Amendment 10
... and African drums...
Lots of Rap input...
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