Posted on 12/30/2016 8:19:22 AM PST by cba123
Then please explain why Medicaid wasn't or isn't enough for these 'uncovered' people.
The FACT is that decriers of Medicaid are pissed that assets are a factor of coverage and that a covered person's assets are seized beyond a certain limit to cover Medicaid costs. The main bugaboo about Medicaid is that inheritors can lose the assets of the deceased who had to use Medicaid.
I don’t see how it could be repealed without replacing. Employers cut back hours to 30 per week so benefits such as health would no longer be offered. Employees were forced to sign up in the marketplace and use government subsidies. Premiums have skyrocketed over the years. If ACA vanished, what would happen to the millions who could no longer afford the premiums.
Not replacing it IS a proper replacement.
In fact, the bulk of so-called “progressivism” at the federal level, from FDR to the present day, needs to be repealed without replacement.
Anyone remember the CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE passed back around 1988? It was repealed with no replacement, if I remember correctly.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/09/us/retreat-congress-catastrophic-care-debacle-special-report-new-medicare-law-fell.html?pagewanted=all
Cut them off and shoot any rioters....
For one thing, that would be the one measure that would absolutely fail under any Constitutional scrutiny. Insurance is regulated at the state level, and the U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed this by ruling that an insurance policy is a financial contract and therefore does not fit any definition of "interstate commerce" that would call for Federal oversight.
Secondly, insurance companies can already compete for business across state lines. How many states don't have a Blue Cross/Blue Shield affiliate, for example?
Why?
The left is perfectly fine with ending fossil fuel use without a replacement.
You don’t like something, you end it.
Real damn simple.
I AM for flat-out repeal.
Let Americans and doctors themselves figure out a way to supply and deliver health care
ITS CALLED THE FREE MARKET. and it works
Is that supposed to be a trick question? LOL.
The answer is: The same thing that happened to people who were no longer able to afford the premiums as a result of the ACA.
Go away commie.
Problem solved!
What influence should any outlet of the Democrat media have on Pres. Trump? They are all disappointed Hillary supporters who will complain about any reforms he makes. Americans voted for Trump to repeal and replace the Obamacare debacle, and they have confidence that he will do a better job than the feckless Obama did.
I think the only people who thing that anymore, are in the medical businesses.
Nobody else believes that anymore.
American healthcare is outrageously expensive.
And far, far, far too many, are not covered.
It is a huge, expensive, boondoggle.
Just my opinion.
I don’t think this is true. What the insurance company does not cover is the pre existing condition, not the individual. This is true of any valid insurance. You can’t insure against something that has already happened.
One important point here is that individual states have their own regulatory requirements for insurance. This is why BC/BS, for example, has to set up separate affiliates in each state where they do business. Different states have different requirements for an insurance carrier's asset base and reserves, insurance agents' certifications, etc. Even if all of these distinctions were eliminated and there was a single national standard for all of these things, I can't see it resulting in anything more than a small cost savings.
There is no magic government tinkering or software which will “fix’ healthcare.
It is expensive and complicated precisely because of 7 decades of ever-increasing government tinkering.
You used the heroin addiction metaphor - it is apt. Americans are used to a hairball system of others paying bills for them, while suppliers are used to massive government support.
At some point, the addition must be stopped. I prefer to see it immediately, before the addict dies.
Anyone who thinks he’s going to pull the rug out from under everyone and leave folks dying in the streets is either nuts or just trying to scare folks. None of hie agenda entails blindly flailing instead of being logically phased. getting rid of the illegals who are also felons will be the closest he comes to using a machete.
The sad thing about this is that they could have simply expanded the “OLD” PCIP plan to cover all 50 states. That and to prevent states from preventing outside markets to compete.
That old plan was a high risk pool where they offered insurance to those who were refused insurance because of pre existing conditions. It would have cost myself 134 bucks a month for it and it had a 1300 dollar deductable and 80/20 till 10 grand and then 100% after that.
BUT NOOOOOO! They had a better idea! Eff it all up and destroy the system so they could go to single payer. That way they can decide who is to die and who is to live. Much like NAZI germany did, and is much like the NHS in the UK.
Do you not see the irony of these two statements?
The single biggest reason why "American healthcare" is so expensive is that third-party payments have become the standard method of financing it. This is the exact same reason why "American education" is so expensive, too.
The things in America that have gotten less expensive over time include 99% of the things Americans purchase regularly with money from their own pockets. I could even include some medical procedures among these things ... like Lasik eye surgery and cosmetic surgery. Do you know why these things have gotten CHEAPER over time, even as "American healthcare" has gotten so expensive? It's because insurance policies don't cover these procedures, which means Americans who buy these services tend to be smart, pragmatic consumers.
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