Posted on 06/22/2017 10:38:13 AM PDT by C19fan
When congressional Republicans began drafting health care legislation at the beginning of the year, critics worried that the result would not be the repeal and replace of Obamacare that the GOP had long promised. Instead, they warned, the Republican party was on track to produce something more aptly understood as "Obamacare lite"—a watered down version of the law that is already in place.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Does it still have the huge penalty if you go more than 63 days without insurance.
It’s a “caution” bill. They wanted to do enough to be seen as doing something, not enough to keep Ocare from crashing so badly that a real reform is possible.
I think even Yertle knew that a REAL, total repeal & reform was not possible yet.
Meanwhile, it’s ALWAYS going to be Obamacare.
I hate those Mother Effers.
I hate those Mother Effers.
As with the House bill the employer and individual mandates remain. The penalty rates have been set to zero.
It does eliminate the employer and individual mandate.
I keep reading that the dimbulbcrat party will soon be extinct.
Those writer keep forgetting that the Repulsican leaders have the backbone of a jellyfish, the intellect of a worm, and the leadership ability of a Hillary.
Trump would have to be dead for weeks before his testosterone reduced to the level of boy boy Ryan, and Rinse the PSewerus
“The Senate measure mirrors the House bill in eliminating the ACA’s employer and individual insurance mandates and most of the tax increases it imposed to pay for new programs.”
They are in a pickle and spineless. When the general consensus switched from ‘repeal’ to ‘repeal and replace’ years ago, the GOP screwed up.
No one ever talked about healthcare costs, the real problem. And they still aren’t.
So, either they go with ‘repeal’ or ‘single payer’ because everything in between is Obamacare lite (having the same problems as Obamacare did over time).
See sections 104 & 105
It will be a huge uphill battle to get this ‘Lite’ bill through the Senate, forget the House.
I will get interested when they get a bill that both house leaders (+Trump) agree on and they start rounding up votes.
Like the House bill it phases out the Medicaid expansion to save that $$$ for the tax cuts.
That article is incorrect.
See House bill sections 205 and 206 for the individual and employer mandates, respectively.
See Senate bill sections 104 & 105 for the individual and employer mandates, respectively.
The GOP & President Trump have zero interest in ending Obamacare. Zero.
One of the summaries that I heard said that the insurance in no longer mandatory. If you don't like it, don't buy it. If so that is a huge change from Obamacare.
But, if not, then that's not so good. For me the "tax" and "mandatory" elements of the Obamacare were the worst elements.
I read in another thread that it eliminates all mandates. That will pretty quickly kill whatever is left. That is a good thing.
The fingerprints of Mitch “The Turtle” McConnall is all over this weak version of Obamacare.
They should just let It die. The country got along for 235 years without government-run health care, and we could do without it again.
sections 205 and 206 https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-115hr1628rh/pdf/BILLS-115hr1628rh.pdf#page=82
sections 104 & 105 https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SENATEHEALTHCARE.pdf#page=10
The employer and individual mandates remain. The penalty rates have been set to zero.
“Obamacare lite”
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They never intended to repeal all of the agencies and power that Fedzilla derives from Obamacare.
I like the elimination of the mandates on a personal and on a personal freedom basis but as far as financing the whole kettle of stinking rotten fish, it means premia will continue to rise, and dramatically.
There’s simply no way government can do this, unless it pays doctors and ins cos with non-money; eg; tax relief.
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