Posted on 03/25/2017 6:46:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
Minutes after House Republicans shelved their bill that was supposed to save the nation's health care, Trump repeated that Obamacare was on the verge of collapse. "Bad things are going to happen to Obamacare," said Trump, calling out the large premium increases and insurer defections that plagued the exchanges this year. "There's not much you can do about it. It's not sustainable."
While Trump is trying to shift the responsibility to the Democrats, it's his administration that will largely have to decide whether 20 million people who gained coverage under the sweeping 2010 health reform law will remain insured.
It's not at all clear that Obamacare is in a death spiral, but there's no question the program is troubled. Insurers have found themselves with sicker and costlier customers than they expected, forcing them to raise rates and exit certain markets.
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I agree, President Trump can SAVE Obamacare.
Dear Mr President,
It is time to concede, Congress will never repeal Obamacare nor will they do anything of substance to improve the lives of Americans. This is all smoke and mirrors and we the people are going to be left holding the bag once again.
Why don’t you just Concede to Obamacare?? Not only should you concede this trivial fight I think you should FULLY EMBRACE OBAMACARE. Why should the Taxpayers be stuck with paying for all these Inferior, High Priced, Cadillac Plans for all of our 24 MILLION Federal Employees? Don’t our Public Employees and Public Servants deserve the Very Finest Health Care this COuntry has to offer?
I believe they deserve the Best Health Care America has to offer, and that is the Official Government Health Care Plan, Obamacare. So why don’t you quit pussyfooting around and Proudly Proclaim your desire to see that ALL Federal Employees receive the Finest, Most Affordable Health Care the US has to offer, OBAMACARE.
All the Money currently wasted on these inferior high priced cadillac plans can be diverted to the Wall.
There is ONLY ONE WAY to make it happen:
Executive Orders
1. All waivers to the Affordable Care act are hereby repealed.
2. There shall be NO funds drawn from the treasury to pay for Health Insurance for ANY Federal Employee except Members of the Armed Services.
3. ALL Federal Employees except members of the US Armed Services, SHALL purchase their own personal and Family Health Insurance from the Affordable Care Exchange in the state they legally reside.
And to make sure it is Bipartisan, President Trump should VETO it every Time and FORCE them to Override his Veto to Repeal this Monstrosity.
Sign these 3 orders and it will be FULLY REPEALED in Less than 30 days.
NOT UNTIL, Anyone want to make a BET???
I would also consider another Executive Order Withholding All Transportation Funds from All States that do Not have Their Public Employees enrolled in Obamacare, just to Prove a Point.
When and ONLY WHEN Government Lives under the Same Laws as us will anything substantial happen
CNN lying again.
Saw this coming.
CNN swings for the fences and strikes out.
NOBODY on this planet believes that Trump owns Obamacare. NOBODY. Everybody knows that Obamacare is 100% owned by the commie liberal Democrats and when it collapses and fails, it will be the commie Rats that take the hit from voters.
Good try CNN, but you missed by a light year. You missed by a parsec. You missed by a universe.
CNN is so yesterday. Completely irrelevant.
Unbelievably convoluted logic.
It's their pig. It's their responsibility.
Anyone with a functioning brain knows who created, and who owns OBAMACARE. The Communist News Network again tries to rewrite history on ownership of this horrible piece of radical socialist dogma that has screwed up our medical system and flooded it with bums and foreigners.
And make the Congress Critters get on 0bamacare
The most coherent comments about repeal/replace on FR;
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:owen/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
No it is not... it is up to the Conservatives in Congress to push - shove and get the hell out of the way ... to REPEAL OBAMACARE in TOTAL and come up with a market based plan with minimal government interference....
But the Democrats will blame Republicans.
Yeah, you’ve blessed just about every AHCA thread with those comments.
Obamacare is “fully funded”? Sure. By the guy with his name on the act.
Ockam’s razor? Unless President Trump wants to put his name on the act (and lose a lot of us here and there) cut its funding: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/231427-obamacare-fully-funded-in-white-house-budget
We’re approaching a critical point where we either strangle this little monster or it becomes an `entitlement’.
“NOBODY on this planet believes that Trump owns Obamacare. NOBODY.”
Sadly, that is not true. I work with a Dim who thinks that Trump and the Pubbies are the ones responsible for the recent health insurance price increases at work. After all, everything was fine until Trump got elected.
NEVER underestimate the ignorance of a Dim.
EOs as a substitute for laws. Wasn’t that one of the chief complaints about Obama?
Outstanding post!
Your business is only as good as the people you have working for you. Time for Trump to say...YOU ARE FIRED... to a few key people.
I agree with you 100%. Congress and all government agencies must be covered under Obamacare.
CNN should move its entire operation to Russia or maybe Iran?
The proglibs own bammy care 200%.
Yep.
200%
When it passed not a single Republican voted for it, the democrats owned it 100%
When the Republicans tried to stop the train wreck (Phase 1) not a single democrat voted for that, the democrats now own it 200%.
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