It took insurers 3 years and MILLIONS of $$$ to prepare for zerocare. Anyone who thinks it's going away overnight hasn't a clue.
Abolish it over night? Great! That is the BEST way to swiftly introduce single payer, which is EXACTLY what they wanted from the get-go. Be careful what you wish for.
Zerocare will take AT LEAST 3 years to transition out of.
They can return to what they did before the atrocity.
It's an inherently unsolvable problem when everyone is covered for everything. People overuse insured options, and don't take accountability for their own health care.
Almost right.
Kill it 21 Jan. Have the bill on Trump’s desk to kill it.
But there DOES have to be a grandfathering period for those on it, and even those about to be on it (reaching an age where they need coverage outside parents), because the GOP replacement isn’t ready.
Three years sounds like a lot. But really that number isn’t absolute. It depends on when the replacement is created. I’d guess the way to deal with it is two tiered. The replacement becomes the vehicle new enrollees choose, and present enrollees wait until their plan expires.
Off the top of my head I would guess the GOP replacement gets its vote late in 2017. So healthcare.gov continues to operate probably about 2 yrs past that date and then dies. This would be less than 3 yrs, but not a lot less.
Repealing it means the feds no longer enforce provisions.
Insurers can still operate as if it exists, if they want.
They just won’t get fed reimbursements, which are late anyway.
They can cancel any policy they don’t want based on history or actuarial calculations based on the new environment.
So I can see implementation taking awhile, but not exiting.
Do you have a specific example?
If they kill the subsidies and the mandate it will die on the vine. Easy peasy.