Posted on 12/02/2016 5:59:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming physician, gave an outline of the plan on the Senate floor this week, which he said has a goal of doing “no harm.”
"I want to make a couple of things clear. First of all, nobody is talking about taking people off of insurance without a replacement plan in place. We all understand that there needs to be a transition over time," Barrasso said.
"People have already been hurt too much when they lost their insurance and when their rates went up because of Obamacare and the mandates, and the government saying they know better than families across the country. So we'll be working to make the transition as smooth as possible for everyone," he continued.
The plan, he explained, will cut costs, expand health insurance, and allow people to choose their doctors. Additionally, it will include helping young adults and those with pre-existing conditions.
"We'll be talking about ideas, ways to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and letting young people stay on their parents' insurance," he said.
Barrasso Outlines the Future of Obamacare
A two week notice should suffice.
Sorry — I should correct that. The last sentence should read: “ELIMINATING all kinds of mandates ...”
It needs to be gone.
And not replaced.
Absolutely agree. If you want good insurance, get a good job that supplies it. Years ago, I worked for a large communications company. One of the ways they kept good, long-term employees was the insurance they provided. That’s they way it should be.
Drove past a strip mall last night there’s a shop with the name Obamacare on it. I thought that won’t be around much longer (hopefully).
There are two basic flaws that need to be addressed in any "reform" of the system:
1. The entire system is built on the expectation that people will get the best personal medical care available, but that someone else will pay the bills.
2. It's impossible for any third party such as an insurance company or a government agency to calculate financial costs for medical coverage when the standard of care keeps advancing. Medical insurance today is like an auto insurance policy where you can buy any vehicle available to you on the market if yours gets stolen or gets totaled in a crash. You can be damn sure that's going to be an expensive insurance policy.
We all understand that there needs to be a transition over time,” Barrasso said.
Great, President Trump:
the Public Employee Affordable Care Enrollment order
PEACE!
First Executive Order,
All persons that can be classified as a “Federal Employee” and Not a Member of the US Armed Forces, Shall within 15 days, enroll in and purchase their own personal and family health insurance from the Affordable Care Act Exchange in the State they Legally reside.
All Taxpayer Monies not spent on Health Insurance for Federal Employees shall be redirected to the Border Patrol.
PROBLEM SOLVED, Watch them replace this obamacare monstrosity overnight.
I think there is a matter of timing involving new law and contracts.
The contracts for health insurance must be inplace before the Trump team takes hold and can cancel Obamacare. So, contracts for health care in effect at the time the cancellation law is signed by the president will remain in effect for the rest of the year 2017.
The remedial health care program to replace Obamacare will thus go in to effect beginning 2018. In the event the remedial bill can not be passed quickly it may be necessary to provide some extension
The Democrats nationalized 1/6th of the US Economy into a Democrat Cash Cow. E-v-e-r-y conniving Democrat voted for O/Care---parroting Obama's Big Lie "If you like your plan, keep your plan.
ALL the untraceable O/Care money from enrollments, fines, penalties, taxes, fees, and asset confiscation (from Medicaid users) goes to your "reliable, trustworthy government."
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Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.
The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."
THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (recently lost her reelection bid) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu
FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare----not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.
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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catcH and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.
The $4.3 billion handoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and how tax dollars were laundered to get lock-stepping Democrats' votes.
Far from it.
The conniving Obama calculated the ACA to consolidate Democrat power that was supposed to install a permanent Dumbocrat majority. So much for that ding-dong idea....b/c 30 lockstepping Dumbocrats who voted for it were ousted in the 2014 Democrat Demolition Derby. Several retired knowing they could not be reelected.
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WHERE IS THE MONEY? O/care also allocated some $6 billion tax dollars----spending money for Dumbocrats ----which has yet to be traced.
The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly voted for Obamacare by an historic straignt-party line vote. But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).
THE PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion, and, in 2015 and on, $2 billion
<><> Where is all that money going?
<><> Was cashing-in the incentive in getting the thing passed?
The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to states and to offshore banks is almost palpable.
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REFERENCE ACA SEC. 4002. PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH FUND.
(a) PURPOSE. It is the purpose of this section of the ACA to establish a Prevention and Public Health Fund (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Fund’’), to be administered through the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, to provide for expanded and sustained national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public sector health care costs.
(b) FUNDING.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, and appropriated, to the Fund, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated—
(1) for fiscal year 2010, $500,000,000;
(2) for fiscal year 2011, $750,000,000;
(3) for fiscal year 2012, $1,000,000,000;
(4) for fiscal year 2013, $1,250,000,000;
(5) for fiscal year 2014, $1,500,000,000; and
(6) for fiscal year 2015, and each fiscal year thereafter, $2,000,000,000.
(c) USE OF FUND.—The Secretary shall transfer amounts in the Fund to accounts within the Department of Health and Human Services to increase funding, over the fiscal year 2008 level, for programs authorized by the Public Health Service Act, for prevention, wellness, and public health activities including prevention research and health screenings, such as the Community Transformation grant program, the Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventive Benefits, and immunization programs.
(d) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—The Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of may provide for the transfer of funds in the Fund to eligible activities under this section, subject to subsection (c).
When my wife died earlier this year, so did our insurance coverage through her job.
Being a family owned (albeit very large company) they try to do things right and they offered me three years of COBRA coverage. The coverage is excellent (only a $3k deductible, e.g,) and has all my doctors in the plan (which is basically the same as what we had when my wife got sick, so we know it’s more than decent). Next year there will be an increase of about 5% for the premiums. Even living off social security, I can swing that,
Yesterday I was talking to a guy who works at my bank, and he asked how I was doing since my wife’s death; how I was managing bills and such. He specifically asked about health coverage because as we know, that’s a really big chunk of most of our bills these days. When I told him about the COBRA and what I was paying, he said I could do a lot better than that with Obamacare. I don’t know about that.
What worries me is I’ll have to bridge one year between the end of the COBRA coverage and the start of Medicare. Hopefully Trump can make the changes needed to make a really affordable health plan possible and one with decent coverage as well.
Perhaps the most important reform is to make it easy for physicians and nurses to set up private practices, alone or in a small group.
Coming about in January, there is going to be one last major poison pill inserted by Obama, which is to take about 20% of the money that used to be paid to individual doctors and groups of under 20 doctors for medicare; and to give a 20% bonus to large providers, like HMOs.
This will be the final straw for many of these smaller groups who are barely getting by right now. “Robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
Hopefully as soon as he gets into office President Trump will cancel this monstrosity. He has already forced a legion of physicians out of medicine, a huge problem for all.
A great way to fix this is in two ways.
First of all, individual and small groups of physicians who accept medicare, medicaid and insurance, need to be treated fairly, though there really is no future in these payments.
Second, physicians need to be encouraged to open practices that DO NOT take *either* medicare and medicaid, or insurance, for routine medical care. Strictly cash. Physicians who have moved to this model have drastically reduced their expenses, enough to charge only HALF was doctors taking government money and insurance must charge.
The effect of doing this will not only mean substantially lower costs for medical care for all; as dramatic as when urgent care took over much the burden from hospital emergency rooms.
Serious privatization, as far away from government as possible.
Also, as an added note: kill the malevolent HIPAA and HITECH acts. The are expensive scams that break the doctor patient privilege and give open access to medical records to at least 37 scurrilous government agencies, any time they want.
If they take away the provision that anyone 18 and over must be enrolled full time in a higher education school . My daughter who had existing medical condition was working part time and taking some college courses part time. She had to enroll full time in college take classes she didn’t care about and try to keep her part time job. It was very difficult for her but she did it. Cost me a bundle too.
Ultimately the issue as always will be the “pre-existing conditions.” Any condition, ever, can be defined as a means to deny you coverage.
Honest, good, responsible insurance companies would differentiate between those conditions that are truly “big time,” on going, with major bills, and non-recurring “pre-existing conditions.”
For example, I know two women diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis . . . over 20 years ago. NEITHER is in any noticeable way incapacitated. Both are physically very active (far more than most men I know). Neither requires ANY serious long-term meds (which are outrageously expensive because the prices are gouged to support the subsidized/price controlled European nations’s drugs).
Both of these women would be denied coverage. That isn’t right. On the other hand, neither is it right for someone with three heart attacks and cancer that is in remission to expect to get a cheap policy.
I don’t know what the solution is, except to have a Medicaid catastrophic plan for the latter, and then allow insurance companies to cross state lines with their health policies. But I also understand a policy cannot “travel” from job to job because the pools change. Perhaps for now simply blowing up Obamacare is the best first start because markets WILL sort SOME of it out.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
A friend of mine is in that bridge period between private insurance and Medicare. Her kids get the SS death benefit, and that’s counted as income towards whether or not she can get a subsidy. They judged she makes too much money, and currently doesn’t have insurance.
She’s literally cutting her prescription pills in half doses because each monthly fill costs $900 out of pocket. She’s trying to hang on until January when the new plan kicks in, and it’s double the cost of her old plan with an outrageous deductible.
If at all possible, get a Health Savings Account if you don’t have one. You’ll have to save for that bridge period after COBRA runs out.
Need to do that same thing with social security.
Obamacare outlawed doctor-owned hospitals like private surgery centers.
The printing presses will need to print money faster.
There’s no avoiding this timebomb. Subsidizing something only makes it more expensive.
Well, maybe Congress will get the hint when the DC hospitals shut down.
The latest is that Obama promised insurers a “risk corridor” to get reimbursed for losses.....but the Fed is backing out.
Serves them right.
Sounds to me like the trusting insurers have been “gaslighted” by Obama.
The term “gaslighting” (derived from the Boyer movie) became a term to describe a pattern of psychological abuse in which the victims are gradually manipulated into doubting their own reality and expecctations.
The gaslighting con artist uses emotional gimmicks and extravagant promises to dupe and disorient his targets who ultimately experience the catastrophic effects of his abusive behavior.
The desired effect of “gaslighting” is to maintain the abuser’s image as a sympathetic trustrthy person, while simultaneously priming the disoriented victims to believe that they are to blame for the eroding situation.
In Obamacare, Obama created a well-oiled gaslighting machine.....co-opting the entire socio/political structure, duping the MSM and academia into becoming compliant accomplices.
Congressional Democrats become prostrate——as they willingly marched in lockstep, in obeisance to Obama, lip-syncing his gaslighting looney tunes.
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