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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WSJ is acting like Obama had influence over this? Trump has been saying this for months! He always was going to keep those two aspects.
That didn’t take long. I though he’d at least wait until he was in office before he moved back to the left.
In general, all of the inaptly named Affordable Care Act should be repealed so far as it erects a bureaucratic apparatus to support governmental control of healthcare. Government control of healthcare/ health is utterly unacceptable, and the tools to make it happen must be destroyed now. There should be no compromise or half-stepping in that regard.
I think practicality will force that.
Anything that PPACA did that Trump wants in Trumpcare will be rewritten in Trumpcare, which will have a far more orderly structure (like a business plan tends to).
And then there will be a section of Trumpcare that performs bridging, if deemed appropriate, between PPACA and Trumpcare.
This is like replacing OS/360 with Linux.
No more ‘TAQIYYA’ from Team 0dunga after Jan. 20th. The EneMedia will resume where he left off..
Ugh again misspoke - not employer providing health “care” but health insurance.
Once he studies that bear, amending won’t happen. You don’t hack OS/360 to get Linux capability. You install Linux.
Oh, good grief! People who have been sick with some maladay have a right to some insurance too. Stop with the knee jerking.
Exactly.
No one who EVER repealed Obamacare was EVER going to get rid of the pre-existing rule or the kids-till-26 rule.
A political third-rail. Was never gonna happen.
Not with Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Fiorina....NONE of ‘em.
END IT, don’t mend it!
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And so it begins...
They can’t be on as easy terms as Obamacare illusorily offered. Trumpcare will, however, make the extra hurdle explicit.
Not buying it. Especially coming from liberals.
Don’t worry about what Trump says to obama right now. HIs life is in danger right now and he has to play nice. Wait for the DEEDS.
The Donald will think about it.
So fine, let him think about it. That’ll doubtless result in him saying no, plus having some excellent reasons to explain WHY he said no.
This is one unwieldy mass of spaghetti that needed illegal EOs just to patch it together. Ya think Donald will want to apply even ONE such patch, let alone what Barack did?
A member since August, and here you go, not even dry behind the ears yet.
I used to be Cuban Leaf and, before that, Robroy. I’ve been a member since 1998.
Not that that is relevant, however.
I’ve not had television in my home since 1997. I get ALL my news from the internet and NPR, the latter mostly from comic relief.
Because of this, I predicted a Trump win since summer of 2015, assuming he won the nomination. And I saw the dublicity of the MSM and railed against it not only hear but on a few liberal sites. While others here, steeped in the MSM world of liberal propaganda (this includes FOX, btw), I remained confident that Trump would win because of the “non-propaganda” I was reading as well as my analysis of what NPR was saying and Hillary was doing (e.g. campaigning in states she had “locked up”).
When I said “here we go”, what I meant was, “here we go with the spin”.
That being said, I don’t trust Trump as much as many here do. I am a VERY strong conservative. Trump is not a conservative. He brings some serious baggage. However, he’s a far sight better than Hillary, who belongs in the slammer and, probably at the end of a noose.
My real concern is that Trump may fail us in many of our pet issues that we think he’s gonna fix. For me, the single most important thing in this election was the repeal of Obamacare. If we got nothing else, I’d still be elated. But if it is not repealed, it makes the whole bunch of them just part of the #uniparty. All of them.
We’ll see what he does after January 20th. But the election was not the end of it. Now it is important to ensure he does what he said he would do.
So here is my plan (feel free to throw stones or add to it)
1. Remove the mandate
2. Allow insurance to be sold across state lines
3. Make insurance a cafeteria plan - pay for what you use
4. No more mandatory minimum coverage (I do not need labor/delivery). If you are married and male and of child bearing age (and not sterile) there should be a trigger to have to purchase
5. Move all of the high risk pool (needs to be properly defined) onto medicare/medicaid - It would be cheaper
6. Move insurance from an employee perk to an individual choice - then it becomes portable. Employers then can give cash that is exempt from taxation to purchase the plan of their choice. Business can still have the choice of pooling, but I would imagine they want to get out of that business.
7. Allow there to be private pools for discounts (e.g. Costco could sell insurance to members).
9. No medicare/medicaid for illegals
10. Poor lifestyle choices should be charged a higher rate (e.g. obese, not overweight)
I am sure there are more things, but that is what comes to mind in just 2 minutes.
Pile-on or pitch in...
But what if it wasn’t such an obese horse in the first place?
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