Betsy is right. Price would do well to make her an undersecretary, working on this.
Betsy is right. Price would do well to make her an undersecretary, working on this.
Agreed
If the Republican Party can’t perform when they have majorities in the House and Senate and hold the White House, they are just lazy SOBs, who should be replaced by those who will push for the President’s agenda. That’s what parties are supposed to do.
Trump should have put Betsy in charge of healthcare.
Ryan is a jerk and backstabber.
How do the two plans differ?
McCaughey said Ryan has proposed limiting the tax deducibility of coverage people receive on the job, arguing that doing so increases taxes for half the country.
I understand that Ryan wants this to pay for Ryancare but it's an unfair tax on those companies that offer decent coverage and their employees. It would encourage those companies to dump their people onto Ryancare.
Trump is fighting at least a three front war, Dems, Pubbies and the press.
Replace him anyway, based on past performance. He sees himself as a rival to Trump and will do whatever he can to make Trump look bad without harming his own chance at 2020.
PRynos funders don’t want him to get rid of Zer0Care.
The Republicans want to expand not eliminate Obamacare for a couple of reasons the first of which their buddies in the Chamber of Commerce want to off load all health care costs from their books to the Federal government.Even though this will expand the Federal government and raise taxes the financial burden will be placed on the middle class and small business and multi national corporations will be exempted from bearing any tax burden.The next factor will be increased donations to the Republicans in Congress and lobbying jobs after Congressional service for both Congressmen and Congressional staff as a whole new growth industry is generated in Washington writing and exempting people from health-care regulations.The finally reason is they can send out their RNC fund raising letters begging for money claiming that they need to increase their majority so they can finally fix it to make work properly since you can’t get rid of Obamacare because too many people depend on it now and you can’t repel it since that wouldn’t be compassionate. Bohner let the cat out of the bag, the GOP elite isn’t going to repeal Obamacare unless Trump and the voters force it on them and they’ll throw up every obstruction they can to keep the donation machine rolling.
Didn’t odumbass sign an EO exempting all Fed workers from Ocare? Pres. Trump
needs to cancel that and force these Congressional weasels into the failing ACA
system....then let’s see how fast Ryan moves on overturning.
He shoulda been canned once it was realized he’s on the Soros payroll.
Wall to wall GOP in public office in this country and the son of a bitches in Congress still have lead in their asses.
RomneyCARE-EXEMPT Ryan is
STILL running with Romney and Soros, and plans
to continue making Pres. Trump look bad (SSDD).
Ryan is using the occasion of Trump’s election to try to pass his own BS plan and calling it the Trump plan to eliminate Obamacare. In fact, it’s nothing like Trump’s ideas.
First off, the GOP needs to break up Obamacare and repeal the individual pieces of it; or keep them, if that is what they want.
The keeping of young people on until age 26 should be voted on, and if passed, with a sunset date.
I listened to nearly every Trump rally and at no time do I remember him saying to eliminate the Medicaid expansion. Not once. There is no sense in exciting all the lunatics by tackling that now. It should be left alone and tackled in his 2nd term. There are too many GOP govs that went along with it. It can be reformed like Healthy Indiana was, or slowly starve the federal commitment to it until it becomes the problem of individual statehouses.
The reason the preexisting part of Obamacare is so expensive is because, evidently, is only is spread out over Obamacare policies. Dr. Betsy explains this well and how to solve it:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/309081-the-pre-existing-conditions-myth
What about the exchanges? The exchanges SHOULD BE the existing cafeteria plans that federal employees get. Employers should be allowed to purchase from these plans, as well. Every state has many plans that cover the federal employees that work in that state. Already set up with participating providers and all the rest. Before you flip out over how expensive this is going to be, please look at this chart. AND SAVE IT. It was a pain in the ass to find, and the only one I saw that gave the total premium, gov’t (employer) contribution, and the employee contribution. These sound a lot less expensive than many of the Obamacare premiums I am hearing about.
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/plan-information/premiums/
You will be able to look up your own state’s plans via that link, so hang on to it.
Nothing will be better than having Trump get up and state that all Americans will now have access to the same health care plans that Congress and federal employees have.
(and it’s the only thing that will save us from some future Bernie-care)
Finally, Denninger over at market-ticker.org has been pounding the pans for years over the fact that the medical industry has been operating outside federal law for YEARS regarding pricing conspiracies. Nothing has ever been done about it. But it is against the law right now. Once he gets his people together, it will be worth Sessions time to look into it, since transparent pricing results in a 75-80% reduction in real costs. This is because the gov’t is the “free-rider” not the individual patient. The gov’t negotiates below market rates for services, so the correct cost (plus enough to cover the gov’t underpayment) is shifted to private insurance companies, causing the rates to skyrocket. There are more reasons, including pure greed and collusion, but you get the picture. If Sessions decided to enforce this law, the fur might fly for a while, but things would be settled for the good, soon enough.
I thought Pauly RINO should have been Cantorized in the primary, but his constituents like being screwed by their Congressman.
President Trump’s going to give him a chance before he goes on the attack for the Repub Congress-critters who try to stay wishy-washy....if they don’t produce, you can bet he will take off the gloves for the “all-mouth-no-action representatives” ... again.
Ryan should be replaced, period.
(2) There are two threats to House passage. One will be if it becomes clear that the Senate will never muster the votes, and the House Republicans will split between those who want to plant the flag vs. those who want to hide in the weeds. The hide in the weeds guys will join in repeal if they think we can win, but some of them from marginal districts may not want to cast a damaging vote in a lost cause.
The second, and much greater, threat to House passage is if the holier-than-thou folks get on their high horse and turn passage into a ritual purity test. I'm concerned that a substantial faction will prefer to lose noisily on a 100 percent bill rather than compromise, and get 85 percent of the loaf.
(3) Last but not least, there are still too many people jabbering as if Obamacare had not changed the facts on the ground. I regret as much as anyone that Obamacare was passed. But that's water over the dam. It is a reality. Some tens of millions of people now get their health care through Obamacare, and everyone's insurance policies have been rewritten in accordance with the mandates and hidden cross subsidies. The status quo ante is gone. Humpty Dumpty can't simply be put back into place.
Repealing Obamacare is the easy part. Coming up with a constructive replacement is the hard part. It's possible, and I know what I'd like to see done, but not everyone is ready to buy into the repeal of guaranteed issue, the repeal of community rating, and the elimination of third party payment and a comprehensive shift to individually owned plans. This is our chance, not just to repeal Obamacare, but to do fundamental health care reform right. There is, again, far too much posturing from people who think repeal is the only thing we need to do.