Posted on 03/03/2016 7:07:48 AM PST by Jim W N
On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare. We will work with Congress to make sure we have a series of reforms ready for implementation that follow free market principles and that will restore economic freedom and certainty to everyone in this country. Congress must act. Our elected representatives in the House and Senate must:
1. Completely repeal Obamacare.
2. Modify existing law that inhibits the sale of health insurance across state lines.
3. Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system.
4. Allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
5. Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals.
6. Block-grant Medicaid to the states. The state governments know their people best and can manage the administration of Medicaid far better without federal overhead.
7. Remove barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable and cheaper products. Congress will need the courage to step away from the special interests and do what is right for America.
I bet he could if he used a teleprompter.
As we get older, it's harder to find the right words. I am way younger than he is and find myself searching for words.
You will understand when you get older. :)
Tort reform has to be separate from any repeal.
Just like wall first.
The Senate is a den of thieves who need to prove they are for the American people first.
That is a flex plan. An HSA is different. With my HSA the account is actually in my name, it goes with me wherever and whenever. Can be used for nursing homes even when you get old. A flex plan is where they put a bunch of pre-tax money aside and it's a use it or lose it. I'm surprised you were allowed $6000, the ones I've had available they wouldn't let us go that high, it maxed out much lower than that.
I guess that's what they call "irony".
It’s a healthcare plan. The two are inseparable. No sale.
It was to anyone that cared.
Tort reform covers more than malpractice. There is a geriatric doctor shortage we need to address.
First Obamacare has to go away and restore freedom to the American people, then we can have a good long discussion about how to bring down costs even further.
Horse feathers!!
Ted Cruz wants to allow drug re-importation to achieve price parity with the rest of the world? Nonsense. No, he doesn’t.
Ted Cruz wants to require price transparency? Horsesh*t.
Those two parts of this plan would be the biggest step towards free market health care in the history of this country and they have NOT been proposed by any candidate until now.
You Cruz people just can’t tell the truth, can you? I guess you learned from your candidate.
“Actually, there are plenty of doctors who accept Medicaid.”
There sure are.
“No Cruz-accusation-of-expanded-socialized-medicine here that I can find.”
Never was. Just the Cruzbots cherry picking words or phrases to twist them into what they wanted them to mean.
First Repeal Obamacare and get the federal government out of healthcare, then tort reform. The priorities are in order of overturning the latest and most egregious acts and decisions of the feds and working back in time to fixing malpractice and medical tort issues.
“That insulting comment was un-called for.”
The Cruz people have been cherry picking Donald’s words or phrases and twisting them into the meaning they want them to have so that it benefits Cruz the most. They were not being objective at all.
I like a lot of what Trump says here, and I suspect a lot of Republicans will. But the reason for this is that two things that he previously said publicly about it are not mentioned anymore.
The first thing is that if you read through it, he makes no mention of continuing the requirement that insurance companies ignore pre-existing conditions. That is a really important point, because it is the pre-existing condition exclusion that requires the mandate. So sure, the individual mandate is gone, but so is the part about pre-existing conditions. If he sticks to that, great. But if he adds that back in and doesn't address the mandate, we're back to having a problem.
The second point is that this plan does not guarantee that everyone will be covered. Which, again, was the foundation of the earlier criticism. If there is going to be "universal coverage (which is what Trump said previously) then you either must have a single-payer system, or a mandate, or both.
So you're right -- the right shouldn't be screaming about this (although his language on Medicaid is weaselly), but that's because critical details in his prior statements about the plan have changed.
You’re upset because this guy accused you Cruz people of being a bunch of liars and then you lie in your post right here.
You ‘found it to be just what we need right now’, eh?
You’re a lying troll.
You didn’t seem to find it to be ‘just what we need right now’ in this thread where Jim had to set you straight:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3404459/posts
The "PLAN" doesn't SAY that. It is a glaring omission. In terms of getting the economy going again, tort reform is even more important.
Position by inferred fantasy may sell for you, but not for me.
If you think that is persuasive, you haven’t been paying attention.
More than the Cruzbots. Cruz himself on the evening of Super Tuesday going on and on, playing fast and loose with the truth.
The Cruz people have been cherry picking Donald’s words or phrases and twisting them into the meaning they want them to have so that it benefits Cruz the most. They were not being objective at all.
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