Posted on 02/27/2017 9:27:42 AM PST by Kaslin
100 pg “draft” is probably going to turn into multi thousand page statute.
That is one pained smile on Trump’s face as he shakes Ryan’s hand.
Nobody was allowed to read Obamacare before it was passed but nowadays everything is open source!! No privacy for this administration but Obama can send money and weapons to Iran, Palestine, and Kenya during his last days.
The propagandists are out of control party operatives.
Nice wordsmithing.
Apparently Obama is the guy who emphasizes "the marketplace" and Trump is the guy who has a "regime".
Spot the bias.
Enough talking about doing it. Just do it while the first term is still new. Do it before we get sidelined into some foreign challenge or new acts of terrorism our soil.
Well, just repeal the damn thing and fill in the adjustments later. Quit screwing around and just make it happen.
If their replacement plan doesn’t do something serious about the runaway racketeering, monopolies, price fixing, and other fraudulent practices that are widespread in the med-pharma-insurance industry then their plan will be an abysmal failure. What ObamaCare did was push everyone into being forced into having to be subjected to the fraudulent practices and if there was ever a major boondoggle to fleece Americans and screw up our country it was ObamaCare. What do we need? “Set the market free” and forcing people to be subject to buying products from fraud/monopoly entities is very unAmerican and very anti-free market. Not only that, it’ll destroy our country if we don’t do this right :(
No mention here, but look forward to hearing the unleashing of insurance to cover across state lines. And, more freedom for hospital ownership - like having physician-owned hospitals.
I don’t care what the government does with health care insurance, as long as they eliminate the mandate. But they had better leave health care alone.
I don’t do insurance. I buy what I need at a fair market price.
I don't see any way to fix that under the law. The easiest way to get around that problem is to eliminate medical insurance entirely and just have people pay their doctors and pharmacists directly.
There's no mention of that here because it can't happen under Federal law. The insurance industry is regulated at the state level, and there is a solid constitutional basis (including a key U.S. Supreme Court decision) for that.
There is nothing that prevents states from organizing insurance pools collectively and recognize regulations across state lines, but the Federal government simply can't mandate it.
Washington MUST make provisions for direct payments between medical provider and patient.
Let 3rd party payer continue, but give priority and benefits to allow a CASH MARKET to develop between patient and provider.
Example. I have a chronic condition which requires a simple X-ray every 6 months to monitor it.
Instead of the doctor billing my insurance company $500, for which he will get paid $300-400 in 120 days, with me then paying a portion as well - let my doctor and me negotiate that directly. I imagine the “real” cost isn’t more than $50
This is the ONLY way prices will decrease and a supply will be maintained in the face of our destructive, illogical government-manipulated 3rd party payer beast we have now.
And be sure to tell the democrats if they want to see whats in the bill you have to pass it it will pass with out any problems.
That’s why I used the word “unleashing”.
It’s my understanding that insurance companies are prohibited from offering insurance regionally or nationally, thus limiting competition. So, I was just commenting that this shackling be removed. Not at all suggesting it should be mandated, just that it is an option.
Too much gov’t involvement again.
This is leaked.....I will always categorize crap like this as Fake News until I see the actual bill, a firing, or something else of substance that proves the truth
The anti-trust and anti-price-gouging laws are already on the books and in the US Code. What is needed is for the administration to have a spine and enforce these laws. Its time to put America First and to make America great again. Why should America always have to pay outrageous prices on medicines and health care products that most of the rest of the developed world gets at much lower prices?
We have to pass it to find out what’s in it.
Recall that the ObamaRats denied what we all knew was in it.
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