Snip Obamacare's monopolistic strings, let the free market compete

The only way I'd be happy with a non repeal of Obamacare is if the president and the secretary can snip the unconstitutional monopolistic strings that prohibit free enterprise from providing competing solutions. Someone suggested leaving Obamacare basically intact for those who choose to provide or subscribe to it, but allow new free market solutions to rise up and compete. That's not a bad idea to break the stalemate.

My understanding is the Obamacare law leaves many decisions for the president and the HHS secretary to make. During the rollout and throughout the remaining years of Obama's term, the president and the secretary made many, many changes and adjustments to the plan without requiring congressional approval. This is the precedent. So the current president and the current secretary should exercise that precedent and their constitutional and legal authority to make further adjustments to make healthcare more affordable and available to more people at less cost to the government and less cost to the people. The left shouldn't be allowed to win a constitutional argument against covering more people with more choices and less cost and less government intrusion, ie, more freedom with free markets. That's the American way.

For example, they should gently snip any unconstitutional prohibitions on existing or new insurance companies from starting NEW free market plans to compete with existing government mandated plans.

Next, very carefully snip any mandate that says individuals must be covered by a government approved plan rather than a new free market plan of their choice. Likewise, carefully snip any mandate that prohibits employers from providing free markets plans of their choice to their employees. Snip the mandates on what must be covered by NEW free market plans. Let the buyers and sellers negotiate coverage plans. Snip any unconstitutional mandate the prohibits nationwide competition (commerce). Snip any government prohibition on associations forming groups to negotiate insurance plans. Snip any prohibition on health savings plans. Let the congress set up provisions for individual health savings plans. Let the congress make health care premiums tax deductible, if they wish, for individuals, entrepreneurs and small business.

Let the decisions on what is covered and the price of coverage be freely negotiated between willing buyers and sellers.

Sure, they'd fight like hell in court. But the president should fight back like hell. He'll have the people and the constitution on his side and he will win.

I’m with with you but almost none of these politicians are thinking exclusively of the Constitution or want to put their faith exclusively in the free market. Even Constitutionalists in Congress have to think about the political realities so that ardent Leftist progressives don’t capture the hearts and minds of too many voters.

The question is how long would it take for the free market to sort out the ObamaCare mess? Will it take a year? Will it take two years or longer? How many seats are up in 2018? 468 seats are up for grabs on November 6, 2018.

We both agree end result needs to be free market healthcare and insurance. The problem is that the transition from a socialist healthcare model to a free market health care model will be very both politically and economically “rocky”. The Republicans understand this quite well and they are afraid to be left holding the bag (people losing their insurance or coverage) so they are focusing on “improving” ObamaCare and will kick the can down the road.

Trump appears to be really quite far to the Left on this issue. He might be playing rope a dope with the Democrats and the RINOs. Perhaps his upcoming tour will make the base’s wishes about ObamaCare abudently clear and sway some politicians.

My strategy would be to ease the transition but still end up on the right side of the Constitution. It might take redirecting government monies in a limited fashion for a limited time to give insurers and insurees some wiggle room to cushion the impact of this transition. I think we have to do this to coax the GOP leadership into getting rid of this laviathan because right now we have the best chance of getting rid of ObamaCare that we are going to get.

What you say is true, but they also made expensive things free if they are “prevention” like free $5000 colonoscopies. Only healthy people get thise. If you are sick it’s “diagnostic” and you pay your $6,500 deductible first.

Who care if 14 million people lose “coverage” if they could not afford to use their plan (which they had to pay for too) anyway due to the deductible ?!?

Tort reform would help a lot too.

Export lawyers to foreign countries!

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