Posted on 03/27/2018 8:02:55 AM PDT by bitt
The collapsing Rube Goldberg machine known as Obamacare is still throwing off chunks in all directions. Now, because some of its provisions have been removed piecemeal, the debris is threatening to conk lawmakers over the noggin at election time:
Health-insurance premiums are likely to jump right before the November elections, a result of Congress’s omission of federal money to shore up insurance exchanges from its new spending package. Lawmakers from both parties had pushed to include the funding in the $1.3 trillion spending law signed Friday, but they couldn’t agree on details. A battle has already begun over how to cast the blame for the expected rate increases. Democrats blame GOP lawmakers for the failure of negotiations over the funding, saying Republican leaders demanded the inclusion of abortion restrictions they knew would be unacceptable to Democrats. Republicans say that they negotiated in good faith and that Democrats rejected reasonable rules on abortion.
The finger-pointing comes as health care is expected to be a top issue in this year’s midterm elections. Both parties face political risks, although polls have so far shown voters are more likely to hold Republicans responsible for high costs. In a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last summer, when GOP lawmakers were pushing to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, 43% of voters said Democrats would do a better job handling health care and 26% said Republicans.
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“...the debris is threatening to conk lawmakers over the noggin at election time...”
Good! Stupid should hurt!!
Curious when it collapses, when it might hit the atmosphere and where it might it hit on the ground? There must be a predicted trajectory...
Might it completely burn up in the atmosphere before it hits buildings and people? Hope it lands in the ocean.
Do not worry about placing blame. its Obamacare. After 5 years of disasters, every American knows what a disaster Obamacare has been. Do nothing except dismantle it.
The only option is to allow a free-market alternative that can operate and grow independent of our present corrupted, state-dominated, crony-capitalist health care system.
bttt!
All this means is that our weak-kneed, liberal “Republican” Congress will start debating how to bail out Obamacare.
How does this work, considering not one Republican voted for Obamacare.
Time for all the Affordable Care Plan customers to get off the the dole and buy their own health insurance.
Anything else is already heavily distorted simply by having a third party -- who neither provides care nor receives the benefit of it -- involved in the process. And it doesn't matter if that "third party" is a government agency or an insurance company.
And the RINO's did this with their eyes WIDE OPEN ,
and want the Republican party to come in second place in a two party race.
It was a planned sabotage
in agreement with the Dems !
This timing might work out for me. We’ve been on an individual plan for 6 years.... it has skyrocket in premium price and deductible. Wife goes to medicare in August. I’ll shop for a new individual plan for just me. Maybe the timing is good for us (for a change)
“How does this work, considering not one Republican voted for Obamacare.”
Not one Republican voted for Obamacare and not one Republican voted to fund Obamacare, but Obamacare still exists more than seven years after Republicans took control of Congress.
That’s weird.
Correct. what Congress can do is adjust tax, liability, and other laws to simply encourage doctors and patients to deal directly with each other, in cash.
“How does this work, considering not one Republican voted for Obamacare.”
Because republicans were mean and didnt blindly dump unaccountable, unlimited garbage of cash into it for all time
“How does this work, considering not one Republican voted for Obamacare?”
Probably a couple of things at work here. The first would be the Pubbies have held the House since the passage of O’Care so anything that happens has to fall in their lap, right?? (sarcasm there) The second would be that they may not have voted for it initially but their action/inaction has not saved the day, either. This would include the hope that SCOTUS would scuttle the law. Perhaps I’m saying the same thing twice and I just want to emphasize how badly these knuckleheads have hosed the rest of us.
“Correct. what Congress can do is adjust tax, liability, and other laws to simply encourage doctors and patients to deal directly with each other, in cash.”
That system worked in the past and will work again.
Medical prices are out of control.
A simple Triple Bypass Surgery costs more than $120,000.00. If patients could pay doctors for their cardiac surgeons directly, that cost might go down to $175.00.
My brother used to pay $20,000 a year, until he signed up here.
medishareplan.org
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