[trebb]

Simply put, it won’t work. If they have kids insured to 26, close the donut hole, waive pre-existing conditions AND LET THE MARKET DICTATE THE PRICE, then there will be a “victim-induced” scream fest (usual suspects) when they see the bill. And the “parade of victims” will be a cinematic production. The Republicans will then be in a jam to find way to “fund” the areas they let survive.

Donut hole good and works - nothing wrong with making folks aware of generic drugs, especially if they're on the tax-payers dollar.

The phrase was 'if folks want to keep their kids on insurance at 26, who cares" (or similar) - nothing about government paying for it.

Waiving preexisting conditions is a contentious item - if you or yours had some conditions that prevented your ability to obtain insurance, and couldn't afford to pay out of pocket for everything, would you just want to let yourself and/or yours roll over and die?

One saves money, one is a personal parental choice, and the other needs to be addressed as a form of "death panel" which is something you would agree is really bad about Obama-Care.

[ak267]

trebb, you can spin this all you want, but keeping something from Obamacare is just leaving the door open for it to come back bit by bit. Med D already has a footprint obligation of one-trillion and it won’t get any smaller. Gov’t grows yet again.

Kids covered to age 26? It’s none of the government’s DAMN business dictating age. That can be negotiated by the customers and the insurance company. By having the gov’t dictating terms, it only acts as a first step to dictating other edicts. We’ve got enough of those already.

Pre-existing conditions should be market priced or have special pools admined by the states but Obamacare threw the baby out of with the bathwater on that front. By having pre-existing patients on the rolls, it skews the concept of an insurance pool. If you have PE’s entering the market, it will be a drain on private insurance system without properly pricing the the product. Leave the solutions up to the states, the insured, and the companies to decide. Keep the Feds out of it. Again, another doorway for the Fed to insert themselves.

So trebb, don’t try to sweet talk it and realize that keeping something out of Obamacare is just begging for future congresses to use as an excuse to grow it yet again. One only need to see the bastard case known as Romneycare (which now needs stimulus money to keep afloat).