Posted on 01/09/2017 9:29:21 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
The catastrophe of ObamaCare was and is complete
Plain and simple, the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) must be repealed utterly, no replacement or residual “good idea” left to haunt us. This is stated emphatically for the following reasons and I pray that Congress, particularly the republicans, are listening to the people and not to polls purposely skewed by the misleading, malpracticing media.
It doesn’t take someone who has worked in healthcare to understand the overwhelming disaster that has been ObamaCare although I’m one who has, so it behooves us to go back to the beginning… why people were so disgruntled with healthcare that the supermajority democrat Congress of 2009 used that opening to slam through incompetent, control-based compulsory legislation.
The only replacement that’s needed is the free hand if the market. And, frankly, doing away with the notion that hospitals HAVE to provide care to people who can’t pay. All payment must be secured UP FRONT. That’s the only way to control costs.
It’s already been proven that the polls are wrong.
Just kill obamacare and be done with it.
There will be no repercussions of significance.
Repeal & Don’t Replace = Two years of endless stories about dying patients and the cruelty of Republicans. Go ahead make the Democrats & Media’s day. Thankfully, Trump is not that stupid.
This whole repeal and replace thing is a bit annoying to me. If we repeal it, we have, by definition, replaced it. We will have replaced it with free markets. People will still have insurance, but the market will have more freedom.
The feds do not constitutionally belong in healthcare and are the ones who have screwed it up to begin with. Government NEVER admits its errors and government's solution to its screw-ups is ALWAYS more government.
Get healthcare back in the free market where it used to be the world's best healthcare, the envy of the world.
The problem I am seeing from the Democrats on this issue is that they are acting as if the ACA has been here for generations and that the very foundations of the Republic will crumble without it.
I guess they will have to pass (repeal) it in order to see what’s in it...
Too late really. A few provisions that will be extremely hard to roll back.
REPEAL!
this damned law is so badly written its incapable of providing decent health care to anybody
all its doing is destroying more jobs for American citizens
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then if any additional health legislation is felt necessary or beneficial, let the states do it. Health care services are not a federal responsibility (other than for our military, etc.). The states who wish may address this topic as they deem best for their people. End of file.
Left to their own, the insurance companies will rape the people so some oversight is required - the trick is to find the minimum amount of oversight needed to prevent harm.
Get the government the hell out of it and let common sense and the natural laws of the free market work it out.
If I end up going to Wal-Mart for my next reduced price MRI, I'm fine with that.
If they have to compete with each other for price, value, and service, they will not "rape the people".
Simple antitrust and other low-level business laws will suffice.
Additional attention needs to be focused on tort reform, however.
EXACTLY. It pains me so many people are falling for the “replace” part of repealing Obamacare. Gut the whole god damned thing. Cut it out like the metastasized cancer it is. There IS NO replacement. If the GOP falls for this trick they lose 2018 and 2020. First ‘they’ said “we’re in the majority and the dems have a supermajority.” SO we gave them the house. Then we gave them the senate. THEN we gave them the presidency. And Trump, hopefully, gives us SCOTUS. AND STILL! “We have to replace one failed gigantic government program with another giant government program.”
F THAT!!!
Unfortunately nobody in Washington is listening.
Unfortunately nobody in Washington is listening.
So it's much better to perpetuate a horribly expensive, inefficient, and bureaucratic mess of an entitlement because the Democrats might whine about it if we don't?
Complementing the article, patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
In other words, Democrats wrongly based Obamacare on stolen state powers and likewise stolen state revenues.
So Trump’s only options for Trumpcare are this imo.
Trump must either work Trumpcare within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), basically letting the states run their own healthcare plans,
Or if new federal powers are needed to make Trumpcare work, then Trump must lead states and Congress to successfully petition the states to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution.
Below are excerpts from the writings of previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices. The excerpts clarify that the states have never constitutionally granted the feds the specific power to establish a national healthcare plan.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
So, if you can't pay you or your kid should die in the street?
In any case, EMTALA was around long before Obamacare, and isn’t (AFAIK) up for discussion regarding repeal.
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