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President Trump supported Paul Ryan and Ryan stabbed us in the back...I hope this bill does not pass...
According to a source close to the White House,
How does anyone know this? Is the WH still being electronically snooped upon?
Why would Bannon lead Trump down the wrong path?
Like I said yesterday. Ryan and his special interests groups have been writing garbage like this all along over catered meals. If you understand nobody in congress writes any bill you will understand the corrupt products of legislation.
Ann Coulter: How to Provide Universal Health Care Using This One Easy Trick
The first sentence of Congress’ Obamacare repeal should read: “There shall be a free market in health insurance.”
Right there, I’ve solved the health insurance crisis for 90 percent of Americans. Unfortunately, no one can imagine what a free market in health care looks like because we haven’t had one for nearly a century.
I heard Trump say that doing nothing was also an option. Doing nothing means it completely crashes and burns all by itself.
Author seems like a real self-serving snake:
In his September 19, 2016, “Agendas” column for the New York Observer conservative journalist Evan Gahr accused Sherman of a conflict of interest for writing about Fox News while negotiating with a job with chief competitor MSNBC and also not reporting purging allegations against MSNBC president Phil Griffin
More and more it seems to me that letting RyanCare go down in flames is the best outcome here. If it passes and costs continue to skyrocket—and they will because the bill does little to drive costs down—it will be all Trump’s fault. The result will be electoral disaster in 2018 and 2020.
The entire healthcare industry is pretty much a Federally funded boondoggle, a franchise, for the insurance companies. In turn, these companies have some connection to large pensions and pools of bond-type investments. The amounts of money involved are simply gargantuan. They are not going to give up the position they have in this easily if at all. This, the position the HC insurance industry occupies, is certainly among the top 5 elements in the whole US economy. As long as it is so, there’s enormous impetus for this segment of the economy to stay where it is. That pretty much means that there shall be no particularly noticeable cost reductions in healthcare insurance. This, the industry figures, the idea that they can pay a hospital bill @ 10% of what is billed, is a fantastic arbitrage position that yields billions for the ins cos. Any inkling that they will give this up is naive.
I think he’s right... just like they’ve been writing much of ‘health care’ in our country for years. Real reform would required tearing up 99% of the laws on heath care and taking out a clean white sheet of paper and starting over.
The medical care system is a scam... from doctors, to hospitals to insurance companies.
Kill this bill.
Let’s see. We bitched because industry experts weren’t involved in writing O’Care so they bring in the industry and we bitched because the insurance industry wrote this. Aren’t they the experts?
Effin duh!
Why didn’t the last bill, ObamaCare, result in massive challenges with lawsuits everywhere by the industry?
They wrote it and then lobbied for it.
Guaranteed profits were too good to pass up.
President Trump knows that RyanCare won’t pass in the H of R, that’s why he said to pass something by Friday or he walks. I believe Trump has a replacement ready to be publicly released once RyanCare goes down in flames.
“Bannon said that he’s unhappy with the Ryan bill because it “doesn’t drive down costs” and was “written by the insurance industry.” While the bill strips away many of Obamacare’s provisions, it does not go as far as Bannon would wish to “deconstruct the administrative state” in the realm of health care.”
Bannon is right. A free market approach is needed to reduce costs of health care and reduce the federal bureaucracy. Not an approach drafted by Ryan’s insurance lobby buddies.
What I find missing in the current debate on RyanCare and the debate in 2009 on ObamaCare is a simple question.
Who are the people who actually wrote this legislation?
For certain we know our elected Representatives and Senators did not write any of the words.
We also know for certain that healthcare consumers (aka ‘we the people’) did not write any of the words.
So who wrote the words?
Did the Health Insurance Industry write RyanCare or ObamaCare?
Or was it the AMA, pharma, hospitals, trial lawyers, government bureaucrats?
Our fellow Freeper, LS, is reporting on his twitter feed that he hears that they have the votes:
https://twitter.com/LarrySchweikart
HMO's as well as arcane laws related to malpractice and baseless but high awards lawsuits where moron jurors play benevolence with the malpractice insurers money and the insurers play along even gagging doctors whom are sued. Never mind the doctor may have done above and beyond his best. Has even one section of any proposed reform addressed this? On this issue booth the DEMs and GOP Congress are guilty and in the very deep pockets of HMO Lobbyist.
How about locking the HEY MOE lobbyist out for once and inviting the private practice doctors into the debate & discussion and I don't mean the AMA. No one is addressing the real issues because no one wants to loose their favorite corporate sponsors.
There is no other corporation that has more control over laws on a federal, state and local level than insurers. Any laws or codes they want passed they get their way. It would shock many if they sat down and realized this interest controls over 75% of your life via their influences at all levels. Trump should be screaming this as well.
The medical “insurance” industry is not long for this world.
It certainly cannot be the centerpiece of a national health bill.