If no bill is passed, won’t Obamacare collapse by the end of the year? Maybe just let that happen, then repeal it and add free market reforms.
We won’t go back to free market health care. We created an entitlement sadly. You cannot put that genie back in the bottle.
You have to fix it, call it what you want, else the insurance industry dies
Unfortunately the collapse of Obamacare will end up with taxpayers footing the bill. The courts have already ruled that we have to fund insurance companies that were suffering severe losses. From what’s in this story, I guess there are good things in this bill. But I don’t doubt most of them will be removed by Democrats before it finally passes (if it passes). Like defunding Planned Parenthood. The Dems won’t let that get by.
Timmy — I like the way you think. Everyone, including the author (David Catron) has an opinion. He labels the quest for a total free market and repeal as nonsense. It is no more nonsense than his unsupported musings. Like a lot of people today, he wants a quick resolution. Personally, I’m in favor of a quick, down and dirty, repeal. If that doesn’t happen, I’d like a slow and torturous repeal. Said another way - I’d like a total repeal and return to the free market. If insurance could not be afforded then this is America. If someone wants it, and can’t afford it, there will be other options like before. How bad do they want it? A not so small additional item for me is to repeal all mandates and taxes. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to meddle in either health care, or health insurance.
President Trump has already eliminated the mandate at the enforcement level since IRS will no longer reject tax returns without the ACA declaration.
So yeah, the entire house of cards known as Obamacare will now collapse in no time flat.
If Republicans aren’t willing to fashion a market based reform, as they promised us over and over again that they would do, then they should just wash their hands of the whole debacle and let it die on its own.
Sure, there will be chaos and pain for many. But that’s better than version 2.0 of the outrageous system we currently have in place.
By then the big mo will have dissipated. This is the only window before the 2018 election cycle.
Lets get something big down now and we can work on it as we go along.
Trump can hasten it’s collapse by refusing to fund it and enforce it.
and 2018 is not that far away. the reps could even get to the magic 60 senators as long as obamacare is still obamacare. now is not the time to cave to the gope’s ryancare. give us a clean repeal as part of the plan or screw them.
They don’t even have to repeal it. Stop the mandate (which they’ve already more or less done), and stop the subsidies. It’ll die on the vine immediately.
So it’s either Ryan’s POS bill, or nothing? Then I’ll take nothing, please!