RINOs that really need to be castrated...er, I mean, excommunicated sin ce they have no balls to castrate. Spit.
Clearly, these traitorous scum need to be primaried...
Interesting...three from PA and one from NY. If I were the FBI, IRS, or DOJ, I’d take a deep dive on the financials of these four.
They have to know that this won’t save them next year and may actually make the bloodbath worse. Right? Right?
I guess zilch zero is an alternative.
As long as you have Obamacare, you will need to subsidize it. It’s the nature of the program.
If you take away the subsidies then the ordinary people who rely on it will either lose their coverage, or go bankrupt trying to keep it.
This is all on John McCain.
I know this is unpopular views for this place, but time is needed to allow the private market to create policies that are unburdened by Obamacare requirements and that can take at least a year.
I have many clients that will not be able to afford their insurance without this being extended. They are facing premiums of $30k per year with having to cover another 8-10k out of pocket.
I also have many high net worth clients who are keeping their income low enough to qualify when they could otherwise afford it.
I can see a half way subsidy that could ease the transistion while giving the private market time to meet a policy that doesn’t have Obama requirements.
Only four? I’m surprised the number is that low. /sarc
THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF
Would this pass the Senate?
Pelousey would have had the balls of anyone on her team going off the reservation in a vice. Johnson is weak.
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., you know it is a commie effort with one of the lead commies on board.
WEAK SISTERS!!! They only care about keeping their DEATS, NOT SAVING AMERICA!!
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
Weak wimpy money grabbing men..
RINOs spit
Even tho Democrat policies are usually damaging and thus, unpopular, they frequently win because they all hang together, unlike Repubs where we have too many wanna be chiefs.
They are going to have to extend them for US citizens at least. I have a friend, well more than a couple who are on Obamacare. Their rate will go from $425 to $1150 per month. If you don’t think that will impact the primaries, then you are wildly out of touch.
"Bipartisan solution" means "Exceptionally bad corruption and skullduggery".
So, these four a-hole Rinos are more interested in trying to protect their little sweet fiefdom as congressmen than they are in the good of the American people.
My PPACA reform plan:
PARTIAL ENHANCED SUBSIDY CONTINUATION [for 2026 & 2027]
Except as required by the Fair Share PPACA premium minimums below, the monthly to be paid on a plan would not exceed the Schumer formula amount by more than 1.5 times the household’s income in percentage terms of FPL exceeds 90% FPL in terms of dollars.
If the household’s income is 400% of FPL [$128,600 for 4 people], the percentage difference is 310% and increase would typically be capped at $465/month.
If the household’s income is 300% of FPL [$96,450 for 3 people], the percentage difference is 210% and increase would typically be capped at $315/month.
FAIR SHARE PPACA PREMIUM MINIMUMS
I would impose these premium minimums, whichever is the higher:
1. 2% of the Medicare 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.
PPACA AFFORDABILITY
Silver plans would be limited to a maximum deductible of three times the Medicare Part A amount [2026: $1736].
I would also make bronze plans low cost by having $10,000 50% co-pays with $10,000 paid up front to the insurance company by the insured. Unused amounts of the $10,000s would be refunded after the policy is closed out.
I would also make copper plans low cost by only covering Part A scope items plus what Part B would pay for any general or regional anesthesia surgery.
I would allow Federal PPACA exchanges to offer Interstate Class Drug Plans,
exempt from state control that cover under contract at the time of policy issue at least:
1. 80% of all FDA-approved recombinant drugs by key active entity
2. 80% of all key FDA breakthrough chemical active entities under patent as of January 1 of the coverage year
used in a drug approved by the FDA by August 1 prior
3. 80% of all key chemical active entities under patent as of January 1 of the coverage year
used in a drug approved by the FDA by August 1 prior
4. 90% of all WHO “essential” drugs
Interstate Class Drug Plans that don’t meet all those minimums could be sold off the exchanges.
This system would allow for genuine negotiation between drug plans and drug companies. Drug plans would have an incentive to try to buy drugs from drug companies and drug companies would have an incentive to make deals to make sales.
Plan formulary drugs would be supplied on an all-the-doctors prescribe basis. The co-pays on plan formulary drugs would be roughly equal to mere manufacturing cost.
Non-formulary drugs might be covered by timed vouchers with plan-set amounts ($700 plan pay, 30-day supply, TV_Drug_32, to be dispensed by plan-listed pharmacy in June 2026). Voucher plans would not have fixed premiums.
The copper, bronze and Interstate Class Drug Plans would not be subsidy eligible.
EMTALA (and Medicaid ER) Reform
To get care under the EMTALA or Medicaid for yourself or custodial child, the hospital might require you to
1. pay $100 in cash or by financial organization card accepted at the emergency care facility,
2. hand over your valid SNAP card and tender a matching valid domestic governmental picture ID,
3. hand over your valid domestic driver’s license,
4. hand over your valid US passport,
5. hand over your operable Apple or Samsung cellphone model listed by a current regulation issued by a Secretary of HHS, or
6. hand over a valid domestic governmental picture ID of yours and
a tender matching financial institution statement less than 70 days old showing a domestic governmental or employer direct deposit of at least $150, both for hospital photocopying and recordkeeping.
States might be allowed to authorize emergency care facilities to contemporaneously debit SNAP cards for EMTALA incidents.
Items handed over may be retained by the emergency care facility until retrieved within one month by the responsible party by paying $100, or more, for the care, plus a retrieval fee not exceeding $20 in a manner the facility accepts. Items not timely retrieved may be disposed of in a legally allowable manner.
NOTE: People can get the care they need, but only by paying $100, forfeiting an expensive cellphone, or going through the hassle of replacing a SNAP card or government picture ID.
HOSPITAL EMTALA COST ASSISTANCE
I would allow hospitals collect up to $1,000 per incident of EMTALA service from patient related employers, with payment not in excess of $50 per week per employee concerned being due to any and all EMTALA providers and not for more than 100 weeks after service. Such payments on behalf of an employee would be considered to be a debt of the employee to the employer. Employers could collect back from employees and ex-employees (and require EMTALA incident employees to participate in an employer plan).