Posted on 07/20/2017 9:53:22 AM PDT by C19fan
No, it is not.
Is this $200 billion to get rid of everything but expanded Medicaid?
Or $200 billion to convince enough senators to rename Obamacare.
I’m sure it’ll end up somewhat in between those. But I’d bet $200 billion (if I had it) that the final legislation will accept the goals of Obamacare (health INSURANCE is a right the govt pays for) with the Rs saying “we can do Obamacare better”.
The existing Federal "roles"--unconstitutional to be sure--have proven a disaster for civilian health care, as well as for the long previously accepted standards of medical ethics. As I have suggested, a continuation of some of the Federal subsidies can--for a time--be justified on a promissory estoppel basis; but the thrust of our attack should be to force a great public debate, where historic realities are kept on the front burner, until people wake up to the absurdity of a bureaucracy meddling in the provisioning of relationships as immediate & inherently local & subjective as that between a physician & a patient. (Tactics For Victory.)
Federal control of American medicine is wrong for all the same reasons that bureaucratically planned economies always fail to compete with free economies, as well as for additional reasons specific to medical care.
When are we going to really understand the interactive dynamics involved, which dictate disaster, when distant planners try to manage other people's lives. No matter how you slice it or dice it, reality eventually must triumph over wishful thinking.
my state was smart enough and considerate enough NOT to expand. Those snakes better not give MY tax dollars away to states that already took all that money.
Where are they getting $200 billion dollars?
Wa$hington Politic$ a$ u$ual.
This sounds worse than the Obamacare bribes.
I remember a couple. There was the “Louisiana Purchase”, and a Nebraska deal, I think. But $200 Billion?
I guess the Dems folded their waste into the bill itself.
For me, the individual mandate is all that I really care about. To me that was the fundamental intrusion into our individual freedom and as long as that is repealed the rest just involves details that don’t really affect me.
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