Posted on 11/17/2014 5:50:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing.
The government already has made a mess of it with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, which fixed a minor problem by turning the health insurance industry upside down. I would call it Rube Goldbergian, but his intention was to mock overly complicated inventions to perform minor chores.
Now Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner has an opposite opinion: "Obamacare repeal is more likely, and now GOP needs an alternative."
His argument is that the court will smite the Obamacare beast and we must do something immediately, immediately, immediately.
Passing a “fix” would require Republicans to pass legislation that would boost spending by hundreds of billions of dollars — the cost of the subsidies — without any offsetting spending cuts. Republicans would be cleaning up a mess created by the terrible drafting decisions made by Democrats who authored the law and the illegal move by the administration to deliver benefits to people who were not entitled to them under the law as written.
That is why conservatives should push Republicans to have an alternative plan ready to pass should the Supreme Court strike down the federal subsidies — a decision that should come by late June.
If Republicans do not have an alternative to present when confronted by the political backlash, they will most assuredly buckle. Putting Republican leaders on record supporting one of the key aspects of Obamacare would almost certainly extinguish any glimmer of hope for repeal.
Poppycock.
Philip Klein bases this need to this this on tweets from Guy Benson of Townhall: "Benson’s fear is that if the Supreme Court rules against the Obama administration, whatever the merits of the decision, liberal media would portray it as a right-wing court ripping health insurance away from millions over a silly typo out of animosity for the poor. And if Republicans didn’t pass a simple fix to change the wording, they’d be accused of mass murder."
So what?
Who cares what the press thinks about Republicans? They hate us. Get over it. The American news media does not matter.
What does matter is that the American people hate Obamacare. They are not stupid and they sense that Democrats lied through their false teeth to pass this monstrosity. The latest Gallup poll shows that by a 19% margin America hates Obamacare. If Obamacare were a politician, it would be Wendy Davis. Who the hell wants to fix Wendy Davis? Texas dumped her. Good. Do the same with Obamacare and win the next presidential election by 19 points.
The argument that 47 million people would be without health insurance is laughable. We added 8 million enrollees (who knows how many actually pay for them) at a terrific cost of $1 trillion over the next decade (the original Congressional Budget Office estimate before President Obama and Jonathan Gruber hid the real costs with a pack of lies).
Dump it.
Hand health insurance regulation to the states. Let them figure it out.
How about replacing it with supply and demand.
Freedom. The Constitution leaves healthcare to the states and people. It’s none of the fed’s business.
Let the states figure it out? Washington state had 12 insurance companies doing business in the state. The state legislature ordered those companies to insure previous conditions plus several other things like not being able to pick and choose what coverage you wanted, you had to bundle it with what the state said. Now we have just two doing business here and premiums have skyrocketed over it. There’s a choice - let the government regulate the insurance companies or let the people decide who they’ll insure with thus deciding the market.
Cash only.
no “health corridors”
no limited coverage areas
buy across state lines
pay cash when able
blah blah
They need to re-legalize “catastrophic” plans, enable people to buy insurance across states lines, and set-up a nation-wide pool for those few people who were not able to get insurance before. They also need to make the cost 100% tax deductible like it is for employers now. And also include some protection for religious people (and others) who don’t feel like buying Sandra Fluke her birth control.
Healthcare is messed up BECAUSE of fifty years of government intervention. Free it up and it bets better. Government needs to give the power back to people to make decisions and purchase directly from doctors, and allow the marketplace to establish catastrophic insurance options. It will lover medical costs to consumers and lower insurance costs. Buying knee surgery should be no different than going to get Lasik or a face-lift. There should be a price tag associated with it, and the consumer decides to purchase based on the cost. The insurance kicks in for major injuries or illnesses.
Frankly, the best thing that could come out of post Obamacare is to use it as a steppingstone to decouple employment from insurance. Make it a tax deduction for individuals just like it is for employers. Ween people off that so they buy medical just like car insurance.
bttt
NOPE!...leave it be!...All my liberal friends that work are WILD!...The ones that don't work could give a shit..they figure they'll just go to the Emergency Room as usual...Nobody has addressed this yet!!...but they will!!!!!
Nothing. The state should not be involved.
I am no economist, and truth be told not even all that smart.
But how about...we let insurance companies ask customers “What do you need in an insurance plan? Catastrophic coverage only? Coverage of every malady and every personal whim known to man? Coverage for A,B and C and not for D,E and F? Well, here’s some offers.”
Let the customer decide, and let the insurance companies tailor their products accordingly in order to offer an affordable product that lets them earn a profit. And allow hospitals to refuse people who walk into emergency rooms with things that do not qualify as emergencies unless they PAY. “Your left buttcheek hurts and you have no insurance and no cash? There’s the door, use it or I kick you in the right one.”
Spaghetti. Everybody likes spaghetti.
And if the states should ultimately decide, after experimenting with their individual healthcare programs, that the feds could run a national healthcare like Democratcare better than the states can (ahem), then there is nothing stopping the states from exercising their constitutional Article V powers to grant the feds the specific power to establish such a program.
Just generally allow open markets, few restrictions as possible, regulations only to protect the truly vulnerable. Caveat emptor!
How much do veterinarians charge?
and the same will happen to the internet under Obama’s version of “net neutrality” I bet.
Zactly ....
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