Just repeal it and replace with... freedom. That’s the constitutional option.
Well it is, but in the real world we know that ain’t gonna happen. But as one healthcare executive told me, there are all kinds of things that could actually reduce the cost of healthcare, so let’s do them first. Like opening up markets, cutting waste and abuse, and putting limits on malpractice so doctors don’t end up spending money just to cover their butts.
And if we’ve got to have government involvement in healthcare and education, how about the kind we used to have in schools that required kids to do PE and didn’t serve them subsidized slop to eat out of some guilt trip of the Presidents wife? If a kid is on the path to being obese and high risk for diabetes and heart disease at age 10, it’s going to be a lot cheaper and better for the kid if they deal with it then than to let the kid become a 300+ pound adult with two stents and taking a cocktail of pills every day.
Gotta start by repealing Obamacare. I just hope they’ve got some really wise people around the table when it comes to the “replace” part and not just lawyers and bureaucrats. At least with Trump I’m pretty sure they won’t be a bunch of crony lobbyists and pharma execs.
“Just repeal it and replace with... freedom. That’s the constitutional option.”
Yes, that would be Constitutional.
The Democrats would then win the next Presidential election and grab control of Congress and you can kiss all your guns and most of your incomes goodbye.
Governments can’t make a mess of healthcare over 100-years and then leave people to die from the consequences of government meddling.
Obama gets to make a mess and bow out, but government as a whole doesn’t.
Laws based on making a market system that works well for nearly all while protecting all sick people are needed.
If my employer pays the premiums for my life insurance policy, I have to report the premium as taxable income. But if my employer pays for my medical insurance, there is no tax consideration for me. This is just one reason why life insurance premiums are lower today than they were 25 years ago, but medical insurance premiums were getting increasingly unaffordable even before Obamacare was passed.