Posted on 02/27/2017 4:19:59 PM PST by Sopater
President Trump should threaten to make Congress and their staff by health insurance through Obamacare. Congress engaged in outright fraud to escape a requirement that everyone on Capitol Hill buy individual health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, and the White House played along, says a government watchdog who calls the congressional Obamacare dodge an under-reported scandal.
Exactly the opposite.
Never underestimate Congress’s ability to make a bad situation worse. I expect that will happen in this case as well.
Can any one name a federal program that provides free or subsidized benefits that has ever been repealed?
Congressional history, then yes.
Trump History? Not a chance there won't be a repeal.
Trump will veto anything he doesn't like.
You are full of nonsense.
Renege on what? the Republicans never intended to cut off their major source of income in the first place.Obamacare is their bread and butter. It is free money for the pols. I said from the beginning, if Trump is going to be effective in bringing back the Republic he is going to have to rule by fiat and decree because he will never get a Congress that wants any of that, Republican, Democrat or anything else. Trump can trim aggressively and shrink the footprint of government, perhaps a whole lot, but if he does not do the things Congress will NOT do i.e. abolish- not trim or rationalize- the Agencies, all of them over and above the original 4 Departments of the original Cabinet, then as soon as he is gone from the scene they will all come roaring back and their re-advent will be much more catastrophic for Americans than just letting them continue as they are. America in 20 years will a Bureaucratic Totalitarianism, no matter what else Trump does if he does not decree the Agencies out of existence and ban their staff from further government employment.
Yes, by all means - let those Americans who take care of themselves pay for those who don’t.
It’s only simple justice that I pay your medical bills for you.
Plus my own health insurance bills, of course.
> Will Republicans Renege on ObamaCare Repeal?
Yes.
Obamacare does NOT need to be replaced. It needs to be repealed and along with it all other government connection to Medicine and Insurance. Anything less will leave a system that evolves inexorably toward socialized medicine. The only Constitutional connection for the Federal Government is Sanctity of Contract and guarantee of weights and measures, and by extension of both- truth in labeling.
Agree. On both counts.
REPLACE = Govt shall make no law concerning medical care.
REPLACE = Patient + Doctor
6 REPEAL bills were sent to Obama. Send it to Trump.
After all, Nancy wouldn't let us see it until after ObamaCare was passed (and passed without Republican support). Repeal the sucker, don't compromise!
I think Obamacare will be repealed and replaced shortly. Trump was elected to implement his agenda. If Ryan wants to implement his agenda, he can run in 2020.
You are one of those here who see reality.
I believe Trump will propose single payer with a private option within a few months.
Do they honor the promises they made?
I too think failure is not an option they can afford to rely on any more. No more failures Republicans, or you will soon find yourself in the same pickle as the Democrats, and you will not have the press backing you for possibly pulling off a Phoenix like rise from the ashes.
Hannity interviewed Ryan who kept insisting that it would be repealed and replaced. But, he also interviewed 3 other top Republicans in the House who had no clue what Ryan was going to do.
Actually, with President Trump at the helm, things happen that he promises, despite their improbability and novelty, way too often for us to be cynical yet.
I think he did something critical to the repeal process just in the last few days: meeting with the governors to get their input. The biggest suggestion they had was that they liked the Medicaid expansion. And while that was made as part of Obamacare, it really isn’t Obamacare, it is Medicaid.
Next, just as important as President Trump in this is what Republican congressmen and senators are doing. As well as what they are *not* doing.
That is, they are all working and motivated to do *something*. Typically there is a large group content with the status quo, the ‘inertia bloc’. But not this time. The argument is solely about degrees of change and methods. And once that is agreed on by the caucus, it turns to tactics, how to actually make it happen.
Even “the usual suspects” are not stamping their feet and refusing to play ball. The political momentum is there to do *something*.
And the clock is running, and they know it.
Oddly enough, one of the most important messages President Trump needs to get out has to be directed at all those doctors and health professionals who were driven out of the business by Obamacare.
“Restart your practices, reopen your offices, let your old patients know that you are back in business. Because the government is no longer going to pile back breaking demands on you.”
THIS
The BIG LIE that continues to be perpetuated is that congress must do something to replace a monstrosity that should have NEVER been passed to begin with. Stop building monsters by government and leave us the hell alone!
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