That would be like removing cancer once it has metastasized throughout your body.
Posted on 05/01/2016 6:59:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has placed a lot of electoral eggs in the basket that is Indiana, and so it was that Cruz found himself gamely pressing the flesh with voters outside the Pie Pan restaurant in Evansville this weekend. Pool cameras caught most of what was a truly impressive display of retail politicking by Cruz, who dutifully posed for photos and chatted up voters, and even managed to find a couple of eight year-old girls who weren’t terrified of him. All this was done to periodic bursts of song from Cruz body man Bruce Redden:
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Toward the end of the procession, an older couple introduced Senator Cruz to a disabled man named Scott, and had some words with Cruz about health care:
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Parts of the conversation are tough to make out, but the man expresses a concern that if the Affordable Care Act were repealed, “people like him would not be able to get health insurance at all,” to which Cruz replies “There’s no doubt that we need to provide care…”
“But it was never done before,” the man replies. “It was never done. Nobody did it.”
“I can tell you millions have lost their health care at the same time,” Cruz responds.
The man then points to Scott and says “Well, but it made a difference to some.”
That’s exactly where the pool feed cut out.
The Affordable Care Act contains so many provisions that protect access to health insurance that it’s difficult to pinpoint which one they were discussing, but it was likely the preexisting condition provision which Cruz has consistently opposed. Cruz’s assertion that “millions have lost their health care” is not borne out by data on the uninsured rate, which has fallen from 18% to 11.9% since the Affordable Care Act took effect, or about 20 million people.
Trump has already said what he’d do. He is not going to repeal Obamacare. He might try to make it easier for you to get another insurance company with a better rate, but he will not stop the subsidies.
The coverage of pre-existing conditions was the only positive concept of ZeroCare. The problem is the manner in which they tried to implement it.
Once enacted, the ideal of repealing Obamacare in its entirety, no matter how appealing, is a herculean task to remove it all together. Something I don’t think any President could do by himself now.
Given that, there are things that could make things more palatable. Getting rid of no-coverage fines, for one. Getting rid of government coverage minimums would be another. Opening up health insurance options for Americans to ANY state, Group or other interest plan would be another. Lastly, putting reporting and recording restrictions on doctors and hospitals could also be altered or removed.
That is just outright BS. Trump has been adamant about repealing Obamacare.
I don’t disagree with that at all. There were not that many and that could have been handled better than destroying the entire country’s populace the choices and options they already felt suited to them.
With the ever increasing Obamacare rates and insurance companies leaving, plenty more people will be affected by Obamacare...of course not in any positive way.
I was once a totally responsible citizen, paying for my individual insurance plan that was at the top of affordability already. Then came Obamacare, and there is no way I can pay almost $600 per month for just me. Add the deductible to that and I would never have the benefit of my insurance without a major catastrophe.
So I am one of those little, invisible, insignificant persons whose statistic is brushed under the rug. THERE IS NO WAY I AM ALONE, BUT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW BASED ON THE REPORTED STATISTICS OUT OF OUR LYING GOVERNMENT and the stupid politicians who don’t do their homework.
“He is not going to repeal Obamacare.”
Trump has said a hundred times that ObamaCare has to go. And I believe that Cruz’s plan has subsidies.
The truth of it is that back in the early 90s, Hillary saw the potential of government healthcare as the golden goose and steadfastly endeavored to implement government takeover of the about 17% of the GDP in the process. Her ‘task force’ who were all secret, meeting in secret, and unaccountable to anyone but her had all the bases covered.
In one case, her ‘plan’ had doctors who actually took cash from a patient going to jail. Other parts of that pesky government implementation of this basic ‘service’ entailed outright “one time assessment/levy” on ALL private retirement/401K and similar accounts. Numbers bandied about at the time for 5, 10, 15, even 20%.
Our chance was when Obamacare was in the midst of being enacted. Our GOP gutless, ball-less, coward leadership chose to just sit back, vote a token minority “no” and let it all pass. They said at the time “it’ll kill Obama’s chances in 2012.” Coward bastards. And guess who they support now?
Yep.
That would be like removing cancer once it has metastasized throughout your body.
There was NOT a Effn thing wrong with the PCIP insurances that was available prior to Obastard care. NOTHING. It was a high risk pool for people like myself, that could not get on health insurance.
It was available in 11 states, AZ was one, and after Obastard care was in the works, they disolved it.
Get rid of Obastard care and start the PCIP plans back up nationwide, And get rid of the mandate.
As for the rest, allow for all insurances to be offered across state lines nationwide. It is called, making regular commerce.
So much of the ‘plan’ serves at the “discretion of the Secretary [HHS]” that I’d tend to put the office of Secretary, HHS up to a yearly citizen vote to retain or remove. The ‘removal’ part would be public hanging. :0)
Sounds good to me!
Soldiers (entails all the types) put their lives at stake every day. Why not frigging bureaucrats and politicos?
Boehner said the same thing, of course.
Trump in his own words.
Who’s going to pay for it?
Trump’s says “The Government.”
Where does the government get their money?
Us.
“Who’s going to pay for it?”
I don’t know if you realize it, but we have been paying for IT for decades. Trump’s not saying anything new; he’s saying that MediCaid will pick up the uninsured, but allow states to administer to allow savings. And get rid of the $11 billion to illegals. Open up access to cheaper and newer drugs.
The rest of his plan is simply free market common sense.
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