Posted on 10/12/2017 9:08:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
The White House announced Thursday that President Trump is taking executive action on health care as Congress stalls on efforts to overhaul ObamaCare, calling for a plan that could let employers band together and offer coverage across state lines.
An executive order Trump plans to sign Thursday morning aims to offer alternatives to ObamaCare plans and increase competition to bring down costs.
The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines, which will create a truly competitive national marketplace that will bring costs way down and provide far better care, Trump said in a statement.TRUMP'S HEALTH CARE EXECUTIVE ORDER: WHAT TO KNOW
According to officials, Trump will direct the secretary of labor to consider expanding access to Association Health Plans, which could allow employers to form groups across state lines offering coverage. According to the White House, these plans could offer lower rates.
Those "association health plans" could be shielded from some state and federal insurance requirements. But responding to concerns, the White House said participating employers could not exclude any workers from the plan, or charge more to those in poor health.
The order also calls on other federal agencies to consider expanding coverage in low-cost, short-term insurance plans not subject to ObamaCare rules.
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ALL of those have to be done by *Congress*. There is no EO he can order to change any of those.
If there's more to be done to undo it, then those steps should be taken. Trump should nullify/reject ACA as unconstitutional but not try to change or make new laws as an alternative.
“As much as I agree with our Presidents use of the Executive order in this instance are we being hypocritical?”
i don’t see why:
1. nothing unconstitutional about this.
2. merely orders staff to facilitate the utility of an existing provision in ERISA regarding interstate health insurance cooperatives.
AND private companies, the states and the President do NOT need court approval to nullify and reject any unconstitutional federal act including ACA - the Constitution, not SCOTUS, is the Supreme Law of the Land (art. VI, cl. 2).
“Plus, this EO can be immediately reversed in 8 years.”
except could be political suicide to reverse if it causes millions to lose health insurance obtained thereunder ...
“Props to Senator Paul for his contributions to getting this done!”
Indeed. i think it was Paul and or his staff who discovered how to broaden the interstate health insurance association rules under the old ERISA law and bring it to Trump’s attention.
I can’t say enough good things about Rand Paul, particularly when it comes to trying to dismantle obamacare and rein in the Federal Reserve.
How right you are. Doctor bills were never more than a few hundred dollars, then Major Medical kicked in and paid everything else.
Doctors and hospitals were happy to accept insurance payments because they paid the actual bill, before Dr and hospital had to start padding bills to make up for shortfalls from Medicare and Medicaid.
Thanks to all who have responded to my post. More for me to chew on and think about.
I know this will hiss off a great number of FReepers, but mental health expenditures for the sickest of the mentally ill are a waste of limited medical monetary resources. Medical dollars are constantly being poured down a never-ending rat hole of failed treatment time and again. This costs everyone more in finite medical dollars. Employers should be allowed to limit or exclude this type of treatment. This would lower premium costs. Someone wants this type of care to be unlimited? Purchase a rider, like people used to do, and pay through the nose for it. I shouldn’t have to subsidize anyone else’s medical insurance with my premiums
They will never.
Politics will beat them.
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ALL of those have to be done by *Congress*. There is no EO he can order to change any of those.
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Hence my ‘Just as illegal’
Course, WE seem to be able to read/comprehend the ‘nuances’ of the Constitution well enough...Not so much those college\ivy league educated.
He is a purist, and this is a great purist move. it costs nothing, or virtually nothing, moves insurance closer to the free market, and keeps Congress from transmogrifying Obamacare into Trumpcare.
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