Posted on 06/24/2017 6:32:42 AM PDT by bray
Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
There are two choices when it comes to a healthcare plan, bad and worse. If anyone believed it was possible to just drop Obamacare they were naïve or fooling themselves. The phrase repeal and replace is highlighted by replace since you cannot expect the GOP to go along with dropping millions of people off their forced healthcare. They will not qualify for a plan under insurance laws which existed before DeathCare, so will have no options if we started over and would not have coverage at any price or priced out of the market.
We have been notified next year our premiums are going to go up forty percent which means taking a serious look at dropping insurance all together. At this point what is the sense of paying over twenty thousand a year for insurance when it would bankrupt you anyway? This is the insanity of healthcare and it is not the insurance industry’s greed, it is the overregulation and lawyers sucking large settlements off of doctors and hospitals doing their jobs. There is no plan some egotistical politicians in DC are going to magically produce which will solve this crisis. The bottom line is America is trying to find a way to pay for the baby boomers entering old age and their increased hospitalization.
As one of the very few who claimed Trump would win both the nomination and election when he declared and an avid supporter, I am pleasantly surprised how he has governed. I supported him since he was the only person in America who could defeat Harpy and thought he would be a terrible President from a Conservative perspective. He grew up a liberal and it is in his DNA, but he has been a Yuge surprise as he has done more for America than the last four Presidents combined.
The right solution for HC is to repeal it and let the millions go without insurance when they find they do not qualify unless being on a group plan or are left to fend for themselves. These would be the victims of Obamacare even though it would be blamed on the heartless Trump. Heart in Moscow on the Potomac means spend more money for any given problem, but throwing people off would actually be the best solution and starting over.
These people would find solutions just as we would, we could set aside twenty thousand rather than pay the insurance company and take our chances and search out other alternatives to hospital care. Perhaps smaller clinics would sprout up with less care as well as less cost could find a place to develop or newer home care processes, but who says the giant hospitals with lawyer lines waiting out the doors are the answer? The problem is the invisible hand of the free market is not laid out like a fancy bill in DC where they can debate it and end up with a gruel nobody can stomach, but it takes time and creativity which Marxism lacks.
Nobody will go along with the correct solution which is shoot Obamacare dead, so now you are back to bad and worse. No matter what plan you devise it is going to be horrible, there are no other alternatives so take your half a loaf and go home and eat your gruel. This is a first step away from the Single Payer plan the Marxists wanted to write in the first place and revisit it in a couple years when you may have enough Conservatives to make the right choice and jump off that cliff into the real free market where you can allow competition and innovation solve these issues hitting the cool waters of freedom.
The plan developed by the Freedom Caucus is the best plan you are going to get out of the District of Corruption so pass it and move on to the real bill which is the budget. The Federal gummit has no business in HC so minimize the damage it can cause and move to cutting as much out of this monster as possible and then go to the next issue, such as the wall and stopping drugs and Mexicans from crossing our border and the bankrupting of Social Security and Medicare. There are so many massive problems in America most of which were caused by DC just like Obamacare, so if they would clear the deck of these two massive bills it would allow them time to try to make America free again.
There is a simple analysis of any bill before Congress which is, does this bill give Americans more freedom or less. Most bills give less such as Obamacare with its mandates and Death Panels. This bill gives more freedom by eliminating the mandate although likely leaves in the Death Panels which may be eliminated by Secretary Price. It does not allow Americans perfect freedom but it is a step towards more which is why it should pass and be supported in the spirit of Reagan’s half a loaf.
The Healthcare Bill is a bad bill which will be improved on by Cruz and Paul as well as the Freedom Caucus, but it will be hated by all as it should. Perhaps this hatred can be turned into repeal and true freedom for the American people down the road. President Trump has been a major surprise in his elimination of the shackles on this Country and really embracing the Tea Party philosophy pretty much in its entirety.
Trump should be given a pass on the replacement plan since he does not control Congress and can only get what RINOs in the Senate and House allow. They are who run DC and he only has the power of the veto which in most regards is an empty threat. So pass this bill and give as much time as you can, to the one bill that matters and the veto can be used which is the budget and move on. Obama and Pelosi ground one of the best systems in the world into a million pieces so do not expect the first attempt to hold water since with Health insurance you have two choices, bad and worse; so take bad.
Pray America woke
enough brayin
Now there is a POS article if one were ever written, and Free Republic usually gets a barf alert in the title so people can choose to avoid absolute vomit like this.
Let the free market provide health insurance.
Leave medical charity to private charities.
Because absolutely people will go with the correct solution.
So you pounded your chest and what is your solution? What are you going to do with 50 million uninsured?
Obama conditioned us to talk about health care as a “game” where there are “winners” and “losers.”
C’mon! This is America! Can’t we find some win-win scenarios?
Absolute right answer, not going to happen.
And yet that is exactly what the GOP claimed - and acted on - while Obama was still president. They sent at least one clean repeal bill to his desk, after passage in both the house and senate, knowing he would veto.
And they claimed they had the right formula, the right answer to getting rid of the monstrosity - just before they stated that they were rolling their sleeves up to come up with the solution they already said they had.
To those who say the current bills are a good start, I ask a simple question: Are the current bills also an appropriate end point? Because it is clear that the GOP does not have the stones to do the hard work of actually getting rid of the federal takeover of health insurance and health care - and the GOP politicians will do and say nothing to reveal this duplicity on their part.
ABSOLUTELY! To borrow a line from President Trump;
Get the government the hell out of our personal lives!
That ship sailed with nOcare. There is only bad and worse. Repeal it and you may be without any insurance at all, which may not be the worst thing.
You guys don’t get it.
There is no longer a moral or ideological position about money. Money is created from thin air by the Federal Reserve via Quantitative Ease. How can such a substance be something to have moral arguments about?
And so, the healthcare bill has to do two things and ONLY two things, in a purely political way.
1) It has to reduce premiums
2) It has to pass both houses.
No other requirements. Doesn’t matter what it does for pre-ex conditions. Doesn’t matter what it does for abortion. Doesn’t mater what it does for Medicaid.
It has to do those two things above, and only those two things, and neither is more important than the other.
If nothing passes, most Republicans lose next year, switching both houses over, just in time for Ginsberg to die or retire.
If 500,000 armed citizens showed uo in DC with a gallows the scumbags who said they would repeal would repeal. Or we try them all and hang the guilty thieves, which is all of them.
Repeal only
One more thought. My family and I pay around $1800.00 a month for a high-deductible ($6500/13000) private (non-exchange) policy. That means that we have to shell out $28100.00 over the year before a single individual covered by the policy gets any significant monetary relief.
We have coverage galore, but cannot make use of it until we have spent nearly $30K out of pocket.
And we are the lucky ones because we can pay for it.
If we could purchase insurance across state lines and design the package with only the benefits we need — JUST LIKE THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS — costs would go down for insurance.
So what you could use to start is a HC savings account and a high deductible of around 50K so after a couple years your risk is around 20K.
Sounds great, not going to happen.
Nice job trolling. You have no answers like most keyboard warriors.
Good piece, Bray.
Reality sucks but we must face it.
No one is going to fully repeal Obamacare all at once. Actually it would be inhumane to do so.
The gov’t forced people onto the Obamacare plank. You can’t suddenly saw off the plank and drop the people into the abyss.
We need to pass this bill and incrementally move people off the gov’t plank.
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