Posted on 09/08/2017 6:54:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On August 22, the Washington Times ran "Senate health panel announces hearings on Obamacare markets" by Tom Howell, Jr., who quoted health committee chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander: "While there are a number of issues with the American health care system, if your house is on fire, you want to put out the fire, and the fire in this case is in the individual health insurance market."
Alexander is "pushing for legislation that props up Obamacare's markets, which failed to attract young and healthy people in the early rounds, in part by funding critical 'cost-sharing' reimbursements." In this effort to prop up Obamacare's markets, Alexander is seeking a bipartisan solution, working with Democrat Patty Murray. The article also reports a bipartisan plan being forged by two governors that "would focus on stabilizing the individual market."
It seems that some Republicans have given up on their pledge to repeal Obamacare. On Aug. 21, The Weekly Standard ran "Diagnosis: Heartburn" by Jay Cost. The blurb was "Is an Obamacare Bailout Coming?" Jay Cost thinks so, and the reason for it won't please conservatives:
If history is any guide, conservatives should prepare themselves for some kind of bailout of the insurance industry – a backstop of some sort to keep insurers on the exchanges, offering policies that are not prohibitively expensive. Such a subsidy, while sure to generate bad headlines, would be perfectly in keeping with the corporatism that has defined our welfare state for more than half a century. ...
The unfortunate truth is that many Republican politicians are much more comfortable with Obamacare than they have let on these last seven years. Push comes to shove, they like its corporatist approach, and rather than doing the hard work to reform it
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They were against it before they were for it.
LIST ALL THE RINO’S THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE
Trump should go on the warpath for rino’s
Lamar Alexander - #2 Donor in 2014 Blue Cross/Blue Shield. #4 Donor. Community Health Systems. Another RINO bought and paid for.
Is this the “imploding” of Obamacare that everyone tells me is just around the corner?
Not just “NO”, not just HELL NO!” but “F-NO!”
Its swirling the bowl...let it flush...
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