[Don Corleone]

100 Senators and 235 Reps and each one says ,”My way or the highway.” What a country!

[DoodleDawg]

I believe this is an area where Republicans and Democrats can come together to find a bipartisan solution that works to lower health insurance costs while maintaining consumer protections such as preexisting conditions.

Which would be what?

[yoe]

Jonathan Gruber should be brought before Congress and made to explain how he made various parts of the ACA legally almost impossible to repeal. I remember Gruber bragging and talking about the 'legal' road blocks in his ACA, agreed to by Obama. (ACA Architect: 'The Stupidity Of The American Voter' Led Us To Hide Obamacare's True Costs From The Public)

[Shanty Shaker]

Healthcare reform.

1. Allow employers to contribute to a non-taxable Health Savings Account up to an amount equal to the employees take home pay.

2. Create high deductible policy that the deductible is set at 25% of the Health Savings Account to create an incentive for a large Health Savings Account.

3. Means test Medicare. Allow the balance of a Health Savings Account to be transferred to another Health Savings account on the death of the owner of the account as a non taxable event.

This manages Income tax and health care costs in one simple bill. We have smart people in this country - surely they can come up with solutions that make it financially beneficial to individuals to fix this mess.

[old curmudgeon]

The assumption is that the smartest people in the country are all in congress

[The Pack Knight]

I’ve got one:

1. Repeal Obamacare in its entirety.
2. Amend ERISA and the tax code to put employer-provided insurance/self-funded plans on the same footing as private insurance.
3. Leave the rest to the states where it belongs.

I still don’t see why Obamacare has to be “replaced” with anything. The federal government has no business being involved in insurance.

More has to be done, but in the context of tax reform and entitlements reform, not in the context of “ensuring access to ‘healthcare’”.