Posted on 11/11/2016 12:40:58 PM PST by Kevin C
NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump said that, after conferring with President Barack Obama, he would consider leaving in place certain parts of the Affordable Care Act, an indication of possible compromise after a campaign in which he pledged repeatedly to repeal the 2010 health law.
In his first interview since his election earlier this week, Mr. Trump said one priority was moving “quickly” on the president’s signature health initiative, which he argued has become so unworkable and expensive that “you can’t use it.”
Yet, Mr. Trump also showed a willingness to preserve at least two provisions of the health law after the president asked him to reconsider repealing it during their meeting at the White House on Thursday
Mr. Trump said he favors keeping the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of patients’ existing conditions, and a provision that allows parents to provide years of additional coverage for children on their insurance policies.
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Don’t jump to conclusions. MSM is reeling. They’re trying to start trouble
Make it
1. legal to sell insurance across state line;
2. make it legal for insurance co.s to offer any level of coverage they want;
3. legal for private citizens to pool resources to mutually cover medical costs to whatever level they wish, apart from insurance companies;
4. the sense of Congress that the Supreme Court erred when interpreting the penalty as a tax, and that it erred in accepting the Harry Reid sleight of hand origination scam.
Basically, undermine Obamacare by freeing people to buy whatever level of coverage they want from wherever they want. And set the predicate for the new SC to find that Roberts’ Obamacare ruling was wrong.
Me too! Trump is making nice right now. There are brutal choices ahead.
They can be incorporated into the replacement plan.
run by the states or private entities.
I’m sorry, but the US media, and much of the world media, has no credibility with me, and they cannot re-establish it.
They’re fired.
As far as what is Trump going to do, just going to wait and see what he does and make up my own mind.
I’m not going to be whipped into a frenzy by known liars.
I hope he’s leaking lots of misinformation
I don’t want Trump to go any further outside the law to get this country great again than osamabama did.
The layman doesn't understand what the contractual term "rework" means.
The existing ACA is unworkable and more than likely it will be replaced with a carryover of some workable elements. Depending on the extent of the carryover, it might be more proper to call it a repair or redesigned replacement.
Why believe the WSJ?
Charity/pay-it-forward programs sound like the thing here, but they’d have to be private, and the private parties would have to be able to fend off abuse. There cannot be even such thing as a quasi-government charity or it isn’t charity.
Otherwise yes, there isn’t an answer.
Well if they console themselves by saying that yeah, Trumpcare has a piece of Obamacare in it, I’m not terribly exercised.
If insurance companies were free to develop their own policy products I'm quite certain one of them would have thought to offer parents to include their adult children on their policies with an additional premium cost. After all, the young adults are the ones who use health care the least so you're levelling out the risk pool.
Yep. Let the market determine the cost.
The only thing I wanted from him was to repeal obamacare.
Here we go, and he’s not even president yet.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, killed pre-existing conditions.
I am not against this. There are definitely parts of it that absolutely have to go: medical device taxes, minimum gradated levels of overage that have mandated coverage that is aimed at selfish little ho’s that want us to pay for their carelessness and the like. Risk is RISK. Those risky people should PAY for it and not expect the rest of us to subsidize this. The best part of it could be insurance companies being allowed to insure across state lines to the whole country. And, there is also this subsidization stuff that also needs to be dealt with.
No. No reworking. Repeal. Replacing it is a separate step.
REPEAL OR YOU MIGHT FIND SOME OF US TAKING IT TO THE STREETS!
Employment provided at least a crude screen. If you aren’t falling over so bad you can’t even work, then you’re a more quantifiable cost.
I misspoke by saying “Make”. There should be no mandate to purchase insurance. Perhaps “make it more financially wise” for people to purchase their own insurance.
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