Posted on 03/14/2017 4:16:41 PM PDT by cotton1706
According to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections, a full repeal of Obamacare would insure more Americans than Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare-lite reforms.
The CBO’s analysis on the Republican leadership’s plan to repeal Obamacare predicts it would drop insurance for 14 million people in 2018, while 24 million would lose insurance by 2026. Compared to these figures, the CBO’s research on the 2015 full repeal bill indicated it would insure more Americans than the Ryan plan.
Phillip Klein, managing editor of the Washington Examiner, stated that despite the Ryan plan doling out billions of dollars in tax credits, the plan also retains the Obamacare regulations, which might stall any more progress. Klein said:
The reason is that the Republican replacement preserves many of Obamacare’s regulations that drive up the cost of insurance. So, in essence, the GOP alternative would be asking people to purchase expensive Obamacare plans, with less financial assistance. In contrast, while full repeal would offer no assistance, because it would get rid of Obamacare’s regulations, it would make insurance cheaper.
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At this point in time, on any subject, the CBO is totally without credibility. It is riddled with Obam holdovers who would do anything to make Trump look bad. Once the Quizlings are expunged, the CBO will be much more believable. Right now, CBO SUCKS big time.
And since the CBO was 100% wrong about the number of people Obamacare would insure to begin with, why should anyone believe them now?
Repeal and deregulate!
While I prefer total repeal to the RynoCare, I don’t believe this. There are more subsidies and tax benefits in the Ryan plan to promote being insured, plus the rate increase incentive to get insured earlier in life. I think the CBO created a scam result in their analysis. I don’t like the bill, but this doesn’t add up to me.
REPEAL AND REPLACE CONGRESS!
REPEAL AND REPLACE REPUBLICANS 2018
Well then let Obama care die on the vine and don’t do anything...
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had to add two words - Ryan is all about government controlling the People despite when he claims otherwise.
The CBO is about as good at fiscal predictions as a rubber ball. Does this include phase 2and 3 or just phase 1? It’s the CBO, so let’s just go ahead and call it fake news... I think their data crunchers are the same ones who said the Himalayas would melt by 2020.
Breitbart...Bannon.
If your physician is charging $7 to $20 thousand for a routine physical then you need to find a new doctor.
“I believe President Trump planned this, he knew RyanCare was a cluster #uck and let the “Snake” Paul Ryan hang himself with it.”
You mean Trump is playing 5-D chess in a 6-D universe? /src
Hey, I believe that orange people are despicable and should be eliminated from the universe, but hey, a tanning salon is a service, like any other, and if someone wants to incur my wrath by turning herself orange, well it's a free country. I can deal with it.
“So, in essence, the GOP alternative would be asking people to purchase expensive Obamacare plans, with less financial assistance. In contrast, while full repeal would offer no assistance, because it would get rid of Obamacare’s regulations, it would make insurance cheaper.”
This shouldn’t be an alternative. It needs to be an option with a new plan based on tort reform, purchasing across state lines, tax credits as an additional plan.
The idea here is to strangle Obamacare by offering market based choices, giving insurance companies the tools to lower costs and get people signed up quickly. If Obamacare is an option which people won’t buy because it is too expensive, they will flock to lower cost plans and eventually Obamacare will be sunsetted as a failed insurance plan. And there is nothing the Democrats could do about it.
In other words nothing that will reduce insurance premiums. That'll help.
The GOP is Einstein's definition of insanity writ large. Clinton tried to tackle health care insurance in 1993 and the Democrats go creamed in the polls in 1994. Obama tackled health care insurance in 2009 and the Democrats got creamed at the polls in 2010. Now it's the Republican turn to tackle health care insurance and make all the same mistakes the Democrats made - making promises impossible to keep, ramming it through without transparency, squabbling amongst themselves, and underestimating the Democrats ability to make them pay for this. They are doing the same thing two Democrat administrations did and are expecting a different result in the 2018 elections. They are insane.
Totally insane. My question has been, can this be repealed flat out without 60 votes? How does straight repeal reconcile with the current law and what are the variables which enable reconciliation to actually happen?
We are yelling repeal which and replace which is probably the best solution, but as of yet I have not seen anything that remotely looks like a new plan. What puzzles me as well as pisses me off is Republicans had six years to build a new plan and have been calling for repeal for six years. Now that they have majorities all over the place, including SCOTUS, why aren’t they presenting their original plan to Trump?
>> The only way to sell it more absurdly is to provide scratch off lottery tickets on each premium payment.
That’s actually a more reasonable plan than anything I’ve seen coming out of congress. More likely to work, too.
It’s supposed to fail, thus keeping Obamacare intact, which will then collapse of it’s own weight and Trump will be blamed.....................
Meeting deductibles outside the petty free services.
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