Bye-Bye, ObamaCare: Tom Price To Head HHS

Are there any other benefits you want the government to force my company to take away from me?

Do you mean those benefits the government is now forcing your employer to provide in the first place? Nothing would prevent your employer from voluntarily doing so.

There’s nothing wrong with having insurance companies sign up people with pre existing conditions. There’s also nothing wrong with having those people pay more for their insurance. That’s how it should work in the real world.

There are literally hundreds of instances in the ACA where rules and regulations are “at the discretion of the Secretary.” This is the Health and Human Services Secretary.””

That is how Sebelius managed to bloat the ACA to over 14,000 pages.

Just refusing to enforce the IRS tax penalty (and publicizing it) for individuals would be enough to crash 0-care and force a repeal.
What healthy person would sign up for 0-care if they know they wouldn’t have to pay the penalty?

But they expected to have control over the HHS position forever. That is not going to happen now. It will now become an IMMEDIATE way Trump can use to lessen the evil goals of this program.

Let insurance companies sell across state lines...

One caveat here. I am in favor of voluntary interstate compacts as long as the Federal government will not have any regulatory oversight. Typically, when things cross state lines, the Feds get involved with their mandates and regs and they essentially turn it into a federally regulated program and you are back to something like 0-care
If there are disputes among the states with respect to insurance compacts, they can be resolved on a case by case basis in the Federal courts as was originally intended for interstate commerce. However, we have to realize that the current annotated constitutional interpretation of the commerce clause means that the Feds take over when things cross state lines.

President Trump’s #DraintheSwamp Ethos Will Start with Pharma

http://townhall.com/columnists/mytheosholt/2016/11/29/president-trumps-draintheswamp-ethos-will-start-with-pharma-n2252182?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Trump’s declaration on "60 Minutes" that he is going to preserve the provisions in the Affordable Care Act barring discrimination on the basis of preexisting conditions, and extending the time in which adult children can remain on their parents’ healthcare plans.

Whoa, now there's a bombshell. Then again, that's not Trump talking, that's Trump's off the cuff words w/ 60 Minutes editing, and then re(miss)quoted by Mytheos Holt.

Here's Trump saying what he's saying (from greatagain.gov):

Healthcare

It is clear to any objective observer that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has resulted in rapidly rising premiums and deductibles, narrow networks, and health insurance, has not been a success. A Trump Administration will work with Congress to repeal the ACA and replace it with a solution that includes Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and returns the historic role in regulating health insurance to the States. The Administration’s goal will be to create a patient-centered healthcare system that promotes choice, quality and affordability with health insurance and healthcare, and take any needed action to alleviate the burdens imposed on American families and businesses by the law.
To maximize choice and create a dynamic market for health insurance, the Administration will work with Congress to enable people to purchase insurance across state lines. The Administration also will work with both Congress and the States to re-establish high-risk pools – a proven approach to ensuring access to health insurance coverage for individuals who have significant medical expenses and who have not maintained continuous coverage.
The Administration recognizes that the problems with the U.S. health care system did not begin with – and will not end with the repeal of – the ACA. With the assistance of Congress and working with the States, as appropriate, the Administration will act to:

Protect individual conscience in healthcare
Protect innocent human life from conception to natural death, including the most defenseless and those Americans with disabilities
Advance research and development in healthcare
Reform the Food and Drug Administration, to put greater focus on the need of patients for new and innovative medical products
Modernize Medicare, so that it will be ready for the challenges with the coming retirement of the Baby Boom generation – and beyond
Maximize flexibility for States in administering Medicaid, to enable States to experiment with innovative methods to deliver healthcare to our low-income citizens

My take is that what's on the stove now is PPACA repeal, then congress works something out, then we know what the replacement is, and if DJT likes it he'll sign it.

We need to move out of obamacare but also away from an employer based system towards a system where each individual chooses from any insurance plan in the UD, no matter what state.

For those who choose, or those who have little or none to pay, I would like to see more "no-frills" options, especially for in-patient services. Some hospitals have the equivalent of a suite, with private showers, full cable, etc. Where it is safe to do so medically, have shared wards, common lounges, use generic medicines, etc.

Do you mean those benefits the government is now forcing your employer to provide in the first place? Nothing would prevent your employer from voluntarily doing so.

You would, with your goal of moving away from employer provided healthcare. My employer provided killer healthcare coverage before Obamacare and I'd like to believe they'll be able to continue it once Obamacare is repealed.

I still don’t understand what the HELL was wrong with our old system!!!

I still don’t understand what the HELL was wrong with our old system!!!

I am sure there are a lot of people out there who can list in excruciating detail exactly what was wrong with the old system. But even with all its flaws it should not be the job of government to make it even worse. Obamacare certainly did that. And I don't care if we're talking Obama's plan, Trump's plan, Price's plan, Ryan's plan, or anyone else's plan, there is nothing that government intervention can do but make it worse. Repeal Obamacare and leave it at that.

After Florida Kicked Their 5-Year-Old Off Medicaid Twice, They Split up Their Family to Find Care for Her

http://ijr.com/2016/11/745469-after-their-5-year-old-daughter-is-kicked-off-medicaid-twice-this-couple-hit-their-breaking-point-with-florida-health-care/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter&utm_medium=owned

To many illegals and refugee’s on our healthcare FREE

You would, with your goal of moving away from employer provided healthcare.

It's not my goal to move away from employer provided health care. I just don't like the idea that the government forces employers to provide coverage. The government does not and should not have that power.

More winning!! The libs are fuming over this pick, so you know Dr. Price is a *great* pick!

Question: If you have dental and eyecare only from Anthem (our new company insurance carrier) and no medical does the obamacare penalty get enforced?

I had Aetna and in 2016 the annual cost was $3,546 for medical and dental and eyecare.
With Anthem the Dental and eyecare is about $500 a year. I may still be able to get medical thru our Benefits dept.

Other then the left arm tingling all the time and slurred speech now and then I do not need the medical insurance this year. I could use the $3,000 in savings for other bills.

I figure that Trump will get rid of that penalty.

I take from it he will create a high risk pool for the chronically incurable and disabled who have constant medical needs. Hopefully that will mean reform of DUMBO’s DEA pain med laws. As pain med is all that some can function on. It is criminal to restrict pain med for cancer patients or Wounded Service Members. There are 1.33 Million and many more who have no health coverage in this pool.

And that is what they are doing. Making you go to useless Pain Management and peeing in a bottle every month. And that is NOT CHEAP. With good ins and a $300 co-pay times 12 gets real expensive quick.

Even my seizure drug is on the list of restricted drugs. And I take the smallest dose of it. I’m limited to a 30 day fill with 2 refills, I’ll have to take the drug the rest of my life, and going to the doc every 3 months is a pain in the Tush. At least I’m not forced into Pain Management like others are. Imagine your 80 and having to pee in a bottle every month under supervision, DISGUSTING.

I read a unit of Saline is now $800. It is salt, electrolytes and sterile water, maybe $10 tops to produce. http://www.thedailysheeple.com/why-are-american-hospitals-charging-up-to-800-for-a-1-bag-of-saltwater_022014

Blood cost https://www.sabm.org/faq/lab/458

...he will create a high risk pool...

--and insurers can bid. Anything else is a fantasy; the current everyone pays for everyone doesn't work, either posing as 'industry minimum' or presented as (what it honestly is) charity.

It is what most patients ask for a fair shake on ins at a reasonable rate. That is why a chronic pool of insurers is needed. We need to break up these monopolies to drive down prices. Sherman Act could do that.

I’d put the commie org aarp out of the health ins business.
AARP Made $2.8 Billion off of Obamacare
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328338/aarp-made-28-billion-obamacare-avik-roy