Posted on 01/13/2017 2:32:27 PM PST by Innovative
Congress took its first step toward rolling back President Obama’s health care reform law Friday, with the House voting along party lines to pass key preliminary legislation.
The measure, which was passed Thursday by the Senate, will allow Republicans to use special budget procedures to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act without cooperation from Democrats.
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Get it done the sooner the better.
Just saying.
Trump has, for as long as I remember, said “repeal, and replace”.
Repeal, and replace.
Don’t forget that second part of that.
First and most importantly it needs to be repealed ASAP. Then there is plenty of time to forge something different. The “repeal, replace: mantra is just a Dem trick to stop it, because there would be a lot of discussion about the replacement and that would stop the repeal. Just repeal the monstrosity and go back to private insurance that people used to have. Then later, if someone has some good ideas, they can be evaluated and acted upon, if they make sense.
Repeal, repeal, repeal, do NOT get sidetracked with the “repeal, replace” slogan.
I don’t know.
The GOP for a lot of years, did nothing about our healthcare system.
Nothing. Millions of Americas were not covered, and it just sat there.
Obamacare covered them. The GOP by itself, is NOT intent on fixing Obamacare.
THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Repeal, and REPLACE Obamacare.
Nope, repeal and get government further out of healthcare. Coverage of pre-existing conditions is NOT insurance. (That is what state “high risk pools” were for). Age 26 requirement is absurd. Minimum plan coverages are crazy (i.e. pregnancy coverage for men and birth control for 60 y/o women). No subsidies (Medicaid was for poverty stricken people that were unable to work).
Nope.
Repeal and replace.
The GOP is just as part of the problem, as Dems.
Except Trump, that is. He is too big to buy off. Everyone else is sold out.
Obamacare was a problem, but it addressed a real issue. Our healthcare is too expensive, and does not cover people who really need it.
Repeal, and REPLACE.
Get government out and healthcare costs and premiums drop at least 50-60%...making it affordable for everyone. Average govt. reimbursement of charges is 15-20% so healthcare costs may drop even more than 60%! Unconstitutional meddling by the Feds.
Ordinarily, this would have been very difficult, which the Democrats were relying on. However, one person, Chief Justice Roberts, has made it remarkably (relatively speaking) easy.
For all those conservatives who damned Roberts for supporting Obamacare when he would have lost if he opposed it, then inserting a “poison pill” into the SCOTUS decision, what we are witnessing right now is the effect of that poison pill.
Had Chief Justice Roberts voted against Obamacare, the liberals would have won, and made Obamacare impossible to repeal.
There are 55M Americans on Medicare. What's your plan for them?
Part of the “Replace” would be opening up being able to greater deductions of medical expenses, contributions to medical/health savings accounts, tort reform, shopping insurance across state lines and other individual incentives.
yefra.....was that calling it a tax? If the pubbies are successful then Roberts deserves an apology. What say you?
Why? You want a government plan which covers everyone? You have Obamacare.
An irrelevant nonsequiter, since repealing Obamacare would restore things to where they were. Obamacare sucked the money out of Medicare and with repeal those funds would return - sans all the added administrative waste.
Since you didn’t pay any attention to the inner workings of Obamacare when it was passed (and obviously haven’t studied the plan in the interim) why are you acting as if it’s some sort of tragedy that people wish the whole toilet full of turds to be flushed?
Phase it out...new workers coming into the workforce don’t have to contribute, and won’t receive Medicare at retirement.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots need to support Trump to either work Trumpcare within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), basically letting the states run their own healthcare programs.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
Or if the feds require new constitutional powers for Trumpcare, to work with the states and the feds to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution.
Replace by and by . . . after the budget is balanced . . . after the national debt is paid off.
The poster said to get government out of healthcare.
It may be news to you but Medicare is a government program.
Sounds good. Now find a majority of our elected representatives to vote for this when they know their constituents will annihilate them at the polls if they do.
Medicare is part of a plan that workers paid for during their working life. Medicaid is for the indigent. Obamacare was for those who couldn’t pay for healthcare. Amazing number of whom couldn’t be bothered to apply because many of them too busy. Point is even if it is free many cannot be bothered unless it is spoon fed to them. Just another large pot of tax money the pols could piss away cause they have already pissed away all the other tax boondoggles.
It is.
But you asked what would happen to medicare patients, and the correct answer is that that program would have more money.
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