Posted on 01/21/2017 9:44:56 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump followed up on his campaign pledge to start chipping away at Obamacare and curb federal regulations.
Trump signed an executive order Friday evening in the Oval Office “to ease the burden of Obamacare as we transition to repeal and replace,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters.
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus also sent a memo titled “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review” to block all pending regulations under review but not yet in the Federal Register.
The new president’s goal is to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, which will require congressional actions.
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PING!
Good, no more fines!
What, exactly, does it do?
I was on the Healthcare.gov site getting health insurance and the exact same policy I had last year, after the subsidy, the premiums were about $133 a month last year. Now this year they are $236 a month. Unreal.
We have to break the Medical Monopolies to bring down costs. Question is will Trump do it?
I seem to remember that much of ObamaCare was left to the discretion of the Secretary. I think they can cancel much of the law before it is repealed. We just need to get a new Health and Human Services Secretary.
>We have to break the Medical Monopolies to bring down costs. Question is will Trump do it?
Trump can drastically reduce the cost of medical care without an executive order change to the law. Currently medical care is sold without upfront pricing which is a violation of US law. It’s effectively a non-market system. All Trump needs to do is start prosecuting when medical institutions fail to disclose upfront pricing and prices will drop like a rock.
It allows federal agencies wide latitude to reduce Obamacare costs on insurers, healthcare providers and consumers.
At least until Congress can pass a repeal and replacement law.
As I understand it, it puts off implementation of various provisions.
Wright Patman is an Air Force base. Could you be referring to Clayton or Glass-Stegall?
> Precisely, all that needs to be enforced is Sherman Anti-Trust and Wright-Patman. He could order the DOJ to do it. The question still is, will he?
Yes. Enforcing law and order is going to be Trump’s primary tool in fixing our broken system.
I thought the base was Wright Patterson.
You’re right. I got it wrong. (Brain fart.)
Supposedly the fines are still in place for all of 2017. 2018 maybe another story. Get out the popcorn. The unfolding may take more than 100 days to happen. Maybe years to get back to sanity.
“President Trump’s ACA executive order appears to target Obamacare mandate”
Millions of us from the vanishing middle-class let out a might roar of approval!
We also look forward to being able to buy policies that fit our needs and that we can afford, instead of the one-size-fits-all obamacare policy that covers everything under the sun for everybody, and therefore is affordable to no one except Medicaid recipients and those receiving “subsidies” paid by middle-class taxpayers who not only can’t afford insurance ourselves but are also forced to pay for insurance for millions of deadbeats and illegal aliens!
”… which will require congressional actions."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Yes, some kind of congressional action will ultimately be required to repeal unconstitutional Obamacare.
Patriots will need to support Trump in working Trumpcare wthin Congress’s limted Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3).
However, if Trumpcare requires new federal government powers beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause, then Trump must work with state and federal governments to successfully propose a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution to the states.
If Trump fails to peacefully “force” the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress to surrender state powers that it has stolen from the states back to the states, then it is only a matter of time before the corrupt feds are once again using those stolen powers to oppress the states and their citizens.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The cheapest price for me on Healthcare.gov. was 600 a month. I work part-time for minimum wage. No way can I afford that. The fine is 700 for the year. I’ll pay the fine, it’s cheaper. Hopefully it will only be this year.
I never bought a pennies worth.
Me either I worked full time at another job an wad covered but left because of the stress. I love the job I have now but don’t have enough hors for coverage. Got a notice sign up or pay up. I’m choosing option 2. It’s cheaper.
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