"The new Ryan Romney Administration will feature
Mr. Trump, but RomneyCARE will remain as the people want."
Posted on 12/02/2016 11:50:08 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
It wouldn’t lead to single payer unless a GOP congress enacted it. Simply end Obamacare overnight, allow people the ability to buy across state lines, end all government restrictions on healthcare, end HHS, and watch healthcare explode with offerings and products.
Just like the airline deregulation. Just like telecom deregulation.
Instant and complete cessation of Obamacare is the only answer. If some paupers need a subsidy to buy insurance that’s another and a separate matter.
If Obamacare ended in 90 days, 3/4 of the hospitals in the country would close.
“Read the article. They are planning to enact the repeal early in 2017.
The sunset clause determines how long people will have to transition to new policies.”
A repeal that doesn’t kick in for 3 years is worthless. And its designed to get it into the next presidential election cycle. The government needs to immediately and instantly end all of its dealings in the insurance business. The industry would blind you with the speed that it offered products.
Paupers can get government help to buy something.
“The 26-year-old construction worker has to decide that medical and disability insurance to protect himself and his family is more important than a new pickup truck. “
That’s his choice to make, not yours. And the more rational choice for him is probably the truck, not to purchase some plan designed for geezers and packed full of free birth control, abortions, psychological help, prescription drugs, substance abuse therapy, and sex change coverage.
He needs to get seen for a flu or minor injuries he might incur.
The young are getting screwed here by people who think they need full geezer coverage.
After paying the $500/mo premium and the $6,000 deductible that $30,000 is $18,000 to the carrier.
I agree. But before Obamacare, if he didn't get insurance in advance, it becomes the hospital's or taxpayer's responsibility.
If the provision banning exclusions on pre-existing conditions is repealed, we go back to the same thing. But, if it's retained -- we have the same problem as now: healthy people don't buy insurance until they need it, and the insurance companies bail out or go bankrupt because they can't cover only the sickest people that buy policies.
As I pointed out in my post #26, there are a raft of provisions in Obamacare that inflate the cost of insurance for most people. Elimination of those provisions would make it more affordable, but that doesn't mean people will buy insurance.
As long as our mythical construction worker can walk into an emergency room and run up an unlimited bill and never pay it, it inflates the cost for the rest of us.
Get to it Paul and Mitch, stop ya whining...
"The new Ryan Romney Administration will feature
Mr. Trump, but RomneyCARE will remain as the people want."
And you'll have single payer in short order.
Great. Then the Dems and media can hang them with it in an election year.
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