Posted on 01/18/2017 5:18:07 AM PST by expat_panama
Health Reform: Over the weekend, Donald Trump said he's nearly finished with an ObamaCare replacement plan. Based on the sketchy outline he provided, Trump's vision of health care reform is troubling.
In a phone interview with the Washington Post on Saturday, Trump said the replacement plan is "very much formulated down to the final strokes."
No problem there. Trump has the right political instincts about how to get rid of ObamaCare. Rather than repeal a portion of it through the reconciliation process — as Republican congressional leaders propose — then delay even that until a replacement plan gets hammered out, Trump figures it should all be done at the same time.
Democrats own ObamaCare, he notes, and partially repealing it while diddling around on a replacement will only shift blame for all future ObamaCare failures to Republicans.
But it's when Trump got around to describing his own plan — which no one has seen, apparently — that things got very worrisome.
"We're going to have insurance for everybody," Trump told the Post...
...making it hard for Hill Republicans to figure out where to start on a coherent replacement plan once ObamaCare is gone," reports Politico.
It's true that Trump has a tendency to speak out of school, and it's possible that the plan he's ready to unveil will end up appealing to conservatives.
But Republicans are already flailing about with ObamaCare's repeal. By creating confusion with loose talk about what will replace it, Trump is only making the situation worse.
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With competition alive and thriving? I’ll be paying a **** of a lot less than I’m paying now. I’ll be cool with that :-)
Congress shall pass no law that does not apply equally to them.
That’s a very specific rule. Isn’t THAT in the constitution? Well it should be.
You seem very confident of that.
Considering what we pay a month, yeah, I am :-)
I should also add that right now we are paying for a plan that provides coverage, and a LOT of it, for services we will, literally, never need. If competition provides us with a plan that better fits our needs, we will save a lotta dough.
Maybe we should read it first.
Last few Congresses didn’t give a rat’s hairy hind end about the law. But there’s a new sheriff in town, boys, and I’m thinkin’ he’ll have something to say about that...
Make the f*&#ing thing VOLUNTARY... then it will have to compete with other plans... it’s called Capitalism and it works!
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I agree and voice strong objection to the “fascination” with the narrative that government has to be in the picture. Get government out of the business side of health care and open it up nationally to free competition.
No, Trump never said he wants government health insurance for all. He said his goal is that "all have insurance." That includes for the most part the private insurance Americans choose for themselves on an open, cross-state, unshackled market.
“Never underestimate Congress’s ability to make things worse.”
YOU are RIGHT, Dawg
The government should stay completely the hell OUT of health care....
MHO...........
How can TrumpCare be worse than Obama care. My health insurance premiums have skyrocketed; in order to pay the premium we have upped our deductible. In fact, the premium and deductible is so high we never meet the deductible.
I, for one, am looking forward to the health insurance change. Maybe I can finally have the hip and knee surgery that I’ve need.
What burns me up about all of this is that the Republicans have been vowing to repeal Obamacare for years and in the meantime doing nothing in the way of developing some kind of framework for what will take its place. They just sit back and throw rocks! This sort of thing is not limited to one party either. It’s the Republicans, Democrats, and MSM throwing rocks at each other with pretty much no plan to go forward (on most fronts.) Hell they haven’t even decided the timing between repeal and replacement, let alone come up with a replacement.
,,,,, I’m not suggesting we pass a bill before we know what’s in it .
“meantime doing nothing in the way of developing some kind of framework for what will take its place. They just sit back and throw rocks! “
So, you’ve attending the meetings on the subject and know this or are you just talking from ignorance??
That's good, let's talk about the bill a can be introduced after saying "insurance for everybody" that's "very much formulated down to the final strokes."
Media lie. Price, who hearing is right now, introduced a replacement in May 2015 and I'm pretty sure had one well before that.
Lots of my fixed income clients have been buying silver bars/monster boxes of silver dollars as silver is below $20.00. Some have been buying gold, but in the GLD ETF format.
Anyways, news from the non-traditional side of investing.
I think we can count on congress, their staffs, muzzies and other protected classes being exempt from whatever it is.
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