Posted on 03/12/2017 5:10:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
A whole lot of congressional swamp dwellers and citizens alike are entirely missing the point regarding a complete and final repeal of Obamacare. How soon they forget the outrage of we the people when Obamacare was forced down our throats and then a redoubling of that outrage when Chief Justice Roberts failed to uphold the constitution and toss it out. Have they forgotten why the tea party sprang up and why we drove out packs of rats and herds of RINOs in the last several election cycles?
We the self-sufficient free citizens of America do not want a federal takeover of our healthcare system! Period! We want Obamacare fully repealed and the government out of it, forever!! It doesn't matter how "great" a system Ryan and company may design, it's a government system and it leaves the door wide open for the next congress and the next administration to screw it and us up royal!
Repeal every damn steenking word of it and drive a constitutional stake through its heart so it can never rise again!
That's why we elected Republican majorities and a Republican president! To dump Obamacare and scrap any and all federal roadblocks to private companies competing and designing health care programs that our citizens can willingly purchase (or not purchase) on our own without government interference!
No government controls over what must be included in any policy. For example, if the industry learns that there is a market for low cost policies with high deductibles and no coverage requirements for abortion, birth control, gender change, pediatrics, routine office visits, etc, ie, the customers are interested in INSURANCE not a full service plan, then they will provide it and plans tailored like this to meet customer actual needs will insure more people and will keep overall costs down in the long run.
Americans do not want and have never wanted cradle-to-grave government protection or control over our lives. We've known for a long time that the less government there is, the better off we are. Thus the American concept of LIMITED government.
Our constitution clearly reserves governance of health insurance policies, private contracts, health care providers, etc, to the states and the people. Congress must get out and stay OUT!!
And that means providing for poor people too. Our federal government was never intended to be a provider for the poor. If the people wish their local and state governments to provide hospitals, clinics, doctors and or insurance plans for the poor, that's their business, but none of the fed's. Our constitutional limits on the federal government forbids it.
Again, we do not want our congressional representatives interfering in our private health care systems. Period!
Repeal Obamacare and be done with it! If any other federal roadblocks to free markets can be removed, allowing competition over state lines, for example, go for it!
But otherwise no federal control or meddling!
Set our people and our markets free!!
Agreed Jim!
Repeal it!
yes I agree. Repeal and also launch Comey out of a circus cannon into the Sun. A good start
How exceedingly well this was stated!
(Thought about a run, Mr. Robinson?)
I agree with you completely Jim.
Trump and public pressure must force McConnell and Pence to change the Senate rules and the Parliamentarian, then force the House and Senate to pass full repeal
Yup! I don’t seem to remember “repeal and replace” 6 years ago. Just repeal!!!
A few things:
1. People paid a working lifetime of payroll taxes into Medicare.
2. Obama stole $500 million from Medicare and put it into his unconstitutional ACA.
3. Take that Medicare transfer and transfer it back. It shouldn’t be difficult as Medicare was never repealed.
It’s simple to get the 60 votes to repeal Obamacare. Oh yes, it is easy, don’t think it’s not.
It just takes a commitment to play hardball against democrats (and republicans) which the stupid GOP never does because many of them are in on it. They only play hardball with conservatives. Just remember Mississippi.
The President wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’. He can get the leverage to force the dems to make a deal. Here’s how:
Obama and his criminal ring stole criminally and massively from GSO’s in the mortgage market to prop up the ACA.
Here’s a report from less than a month ago:
http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2017/02/22/fannie-and-freddie-took-a-big-fall-will-bruce-berkowitz-fairholme-come-tumbling-after
AG Sessions can direct DOJ resources into investigating the events discovered in these lawsuits as part of a probe into a criminal conspiracy. It shouldn’t take that much time to find a lower level group of conspiracists to obtain plea deals in return for turning evidence on higher ups. Some of those higher ups can be expected to lead to the DNC leadership.
Once Sessions has the DNC leadership by the balls, the 60 votes needed to repeal Obamacare should be a cakewalk.
Totally!
And the deduction for employer provided insurance has been a big contributor to inefficiencies in the market (encouraging every last bit of healthcare expense to go through insurance markups and not be exposed to functional market price discovery), so that should be phased out sometime soon too.
But total repeal is the answer to the current question.
Drive a wooden stake in the heart of ObamaCare.
Repeal and Replace.
Repeal it.
Replace it with NOTHING.
Couldn’t agree more.
Repeal and do not replace. The free market works fine.
If they feel the urge to pass something, then allow insurance across state borders.
Agreed!
The health care providers WANT to provide you with health care.
The insurance companies WANT to provide you with coverage.
Let the marketplace work.
If government should do anything, it should take down regulations and barriers that impede the marketplace from doing what it does: supplying what the people demand.
Right on.
Amen Jim!!!
Use the Stevens Act to break up the Big Pharma Monopolies. End the incestuous relationship with congress, FDA and Big Pharma. A pool for the chronic ill. And get the DEA off the backs of the 1.33 million Chronic Pain Patients, we don’t abuse our meds. Most OD’s are illegal street drugs like heroin laced with stolen Fenyatal. We don’t need the added layer of useless Pain Management who have no knowledge of our diseases. That Co-Pay is $300 or more a month to Pee in a bottle to get less pain control per ACA. They are noting but Shrinks prying into your personal business, like if you own a gun or have PSTD an excuse to take your gun.
Those of us stuck on Medicare and Tricare Life would like upgrades we pay for in scheduled medical procedures. Why should we be stuck with inferior cataract implants when for a little more out of our pocket we can have a better product? Why when they get cataract implants wrong, am I charged FULLY for the Lasix to fix their goof up. You can’t remove implants once they are in, Lasix in this case is their fix, and is not a “cosmetic” procedure but a medical one then.
Why not co-pays for pricey items like hearing aids, eye glasses, and dental which are NOT covered under these 2 plans. They are the items seniors pay fully out of pocket. Or let us get a extra plan that will cover those things. If we do now, it negates our Tricare Life as Medicare
Secondary.
Trump and congress need to stop listening to doctors who get kick backs on new expensive drugs, Big Pharma, lobbyist and FDA and start listening to PATIENTS. We want Flagged drugs off the market. They are flagged because they are dangerous and can kill or give you devastating other diseases. Lyrica has SUICIDE as a listed side effect besides being more addictive than morphine.
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