Posted on 10/14/2017 4:34:52 PM PDT by John Semmens
This week President Trump made some administrative revisions to the Affordable Care Act health insurance program. Using latitude granted to the president in the original legislation, Trump issued an executive action that allows individuals more choices in how to insure themselves. This expansion of choice was denounced by key Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) called Trump's move "a stab in the back. Allowing people more choices is the exact opposite of what is needed if the changes made by Obamacare are to be made permanent. People will choose selfishly. They will only buy coverage they think they need. They won't opt to pay for the coverage that government experts say others need. Under the President's executive action a person who opposes abortion won't have to pay to cover it for others. This extreme individualism undermines the collective welfare of society."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) called Trump's move "sabotage. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a very delicately balanced system of cross-subsidization. If individuals who don't need certain medical procedures are allowed to opt out of paying for them others who do need these procedures will be hurt. For example, under Trump's rules a person who doesn't want a sex change won't have to pay for insurance to cover it for others. How is this fair? The notion that each person should be free to choose what he wants to buy is not the kind of America I want to live in."
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) issued a press release seconding the "sabotage" accusation, saying "the Republicans already had their chance to repeal the ACA, but failed. Taking executive action to get around that failure is not the kind of bipartisanship Mr. Trump implied just a few weeks ago. For him to say he is merely exercising the same executive latitude that President Obama did is not an adequate justification. Since when do two wrongs make a right?"
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards complained that "ending the requirement for everyone to purchase abortion coverage allows Christians to impose their views on others. Women have an inalienable right to terminate unwanted offspring. It is everyone else's obligation to provide the financial means necessary to implement this right. The ACA regulations proclaimed by President Obama's executive action are the crucial legal mechanism by which these rights were realized. By allowing individuals to buy insurance that doesn't pay for abortions this country has taken a major leap backward."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/227250-2017-10-14-semi-news-semi-satire-october-15-2017-edition.htm
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America took a major leap backward and downward when obungles was elected by a dumbed down populace who could not remember muslims attacked us just 7 years before and killed almost 3k of our people just that one time and took down two monuments to our success. Electing a radical Marxist/Muslim was the height of stupidity by a low info nation.
Then they almost elected obungles 2.0.
What? No race card play?
What does crazy Aunt Maxine have to say about this?
Evening, John.
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