The solution requires understanding what Obama did to get it passed in the first place. He obscured the cost of the subsidy that people buying coverage on the individual market are paying as part of their gold/silver/bronze coverage. All you need to do is add transparency to the program so that each individual knows the cost of their coverage and the portion of their total premium that is buying down the price for others. That will kill enough political support for the current version of Obamacare that it will be possible to reverse it.
Obama’s accomplishment in getting it passed was the obfuscation of the cross-subsidization of health insurance costs that individuals are paying. Make that transparent, open, and obvious, and it will fall of its own weight.
“Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring”
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1 word: RINO’S.
I have proposed these premium minimums, whichever is the higher:
1. 1/65th of the Medicare Part B premium amount per insured year of age as of the start of coverage
2. a percentage of the premium amount equal to the household income percentage of FPL - 60% divided by 3
For a 5-year-old, 7-year-old, 32-year-old and 34-year-old, the ages would sum to 88 and the monthly absolute minimum premium amount would be a (88/65)*$185 or $250.46.
For a 5-year-old kid and a 27-year-old mom the ages would sum to 32 and the monthly absolute minimum premium amount would be (32/65)*$185 or $91.07.
To make all that palatable to the Democrats, I would lower the original PPACA subsidy threshold from 100% of FPL to 80% of FPL.