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Posted on 11/14/2025 11:25:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A monumental historic opportunity will be presented to Trump and the GOP – if they have the guts to seize it.
While the common perception of the six-week-long government shutdown is that Republicans won and Democrats lost, the Dems did manage to squeeze one notable concession from the GOP. In return for the votes of eight Democratic Senators to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) promised to bring the reauthorization of COVID-era Obamacare insurance subsidies to a vote in December. And while Republicans have no appetite to further bankroll a program they have unanimously opposed for the last decade and a half, both parties stand to gain something from the vote. But the difference is that the Democrats, shut out of power, can only engage in pure partisan politics, while President Trump and Republicans will be presented with a monumental historic opportunity if they choose to carpe diem (seize the day).
Can Obamacare Finally Be Replaced?
When the GOP likely refuses to renew the subsidies that kept the Affordable Care Act (ACA) afloat without substantial increases in premiums during the pandemic, Democrats will certainly follow their usual script and call Trump and his allies cruel and heartless for allowing costs to rise on the more than 20 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare. But if Republicans respond by just discussing how the program is and always has been unsustainable, they would miss their first opportunity in years to fix it once and for all.
As the president and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have proposed, those subsidies ticketed for insurance companies could instead be redirected to the beneficiaries with no middleman. Every Obamacare enrollee would receive a check from the federal government to spend on health care as they see fit through Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
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I wish the GOP would get busy and come up with a replacement for Obamacare that really works for the People.
There’s this thing called the private sector that worked pretty good before it was abandoned about sixty years ago in favor of the government-insurance-medicine incest model that currently exists.
There’s no way to fix that kind of infantile sense of entitlement.
No. Get the government out of healthcare altogether, it’s not their job to be involved in the first place.
Basic health care should be plentiful, inexpensive, and of high quality. Keeping People Healthy is the name of the game.
Advanced, more complex, and intrusive care and procedures will always be rationed, by quality or prices.
“Health Care” is not a right. You can’t have a “right” if someone has to work to provide it for you.
The world is a big place. Lots of people.
Some people get sick real bad and need some help.
Some people take advantage of every grifting opportunity and don’t give a shiiite.
Combine compassion for the first, with sheer disgust for the second. That’s where we are.
Vast swaths of young people are now caught in the indentred servitude trap of socialism.
We’re not getting out of it without pain and probably civil war.
“ Every Obamacare enrollee would receive a check from the federal government to spend on health care”
Perhaps put money in an account which can be drawn only to be paid directly to a healthcare provider. Giving a check to people will just find it spent on who knows what.
Here's the highlights:
New Health Options Act
Creates a new marketplace: A separate market is proposed that exists alongside the ACA marketplace.
Requires cash price disclosure: Insurers must disclose the cash price of a service if it is lower than the negotiated rate.
Increases flexibility: Aims to provide more choice for those in narrow provider networks.
Guarantees coverage: Ensures coverage for preexisting conditions, but at a lower cost.
Retirement Freedom Act
Decouples Social Security and Medicare: Allows seniors to choose to opt out of Medicare enrollment without forfeiting their Social Security benefits.
Empowers seniors: Aims to give senior citizens more control over their own medical decisions by allowing them to keep private insurance if they prefer.
General stances on healthcare reform
Repeal and replace ACA: Palmer has long advocated for replacing the ACA with market-based reforms, such as allowing insurance to be purchased across state lines.
Reduce government control: Supports limiting the size and scope of government involvement in healthcare.
Support for specific measures: Introduced legislation to ensure doctors get paid under new coding systems for Medicaid and Medicare patients.
We don’t need an alternative. We need it eliminated altogether and health insurance returned to the free market, even the decision to not get insurance. Give the bureaucrats in charge of this mess a nice exit bonus of 100 dollars and fire them all. If it turns out that they can’t be fired then transfer them to a chair, a school desk, and a broken fax machine in a closet in some other department. The door probably shouldn’t be locked.
Insurance was already screwed up, thanks to the states dictating policy content, for decades.
In the 80s/90s, the argument was that insurance should be required to pay for routine checkups. The theory being this would encourage more folks to get one, thereby reducing big claims later. States made it required across the board, though it was easier to get hospitalization only if you wanted it.
But all those new, albeit smaller claims, turned out to be more expensive simply due to the massive volume increase.
States also began to require that policies cover psychiatry, hence the explosion of ADHD in the 90s.
As policies got more and more expensive, the next “Big Idea” was commie care.
So it’s not about replacing commie care but getting government out of it, other than to deal w/fraud (from either side of the transaction).
The only thing keeping insurance companies from crossing state lines previously was the slightly different policy content requirements among the different states. With those gone, there’s no reason for an insurance company not to cover you on travel.
Replace it with NOTHING
Just shitcan it totally and let market figure it out.
Offer the American public what Congress gets...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/
The optimum replacement is to get government out of the ‘healthcare’ industry. They were never given the power by the constitution and everything they touch gets screwed up because the bureaucrats are involved. They even supress insurance competition with their regulations. Of course, the insurance companies like that.
Right or wrong, that would be political suicide in 2025.
Well if they do (which I’m not optimistic on) Massie will vote “no” to keep Obamacare in place as is...for the sake of the Constitution, of course.
They could just leave the structure of Obamacare in place, but repeal all of the regulations which limited plans, banned providers from building their own medical centers outside of the corporate system, etc. It would essentially...”wither on the vine” as people voluntarily leave it...voluntarily. (a little throwback to a much lied about quote from Mr. Newt back in the 90s)
That Americans cannot agree is roof that we do agree… no more imposition of my plan over your plan.
Freedom to choose is the plan. Some believe they are theirs brother’s keeper and voluntarily donate to charity.., or support their lazy brother.
Some create jobs and expect their lazy brother to work.
To each his own is the plan.
Subsidizing Dems d will never work no matter how you do it. The solution is on the supply side. More doctors. More nurses. More healthcare workers of all kinds.
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