The Republican bill also allows states to impose work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries. Remember Medicaid is for the poor. Medicare is for our seasoned citizens. Medicaid will allow states to impose work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries.
That, along with the removal of the mandate, is my favorite part. Love it!
(HAT TIP NY POST) Republicans celebrated——President Trump was ready to party in the White House Rose Garden immediately after the vote
Dems responded by singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,” the classic-rock anthem chanted at losers and drunken miscreants escorted from sports arenas..... a 1969 hit by one-hit-wonder band Steam.
For Democrats, the song was payback. Republicans sang the same song to them in 1993 when then-President Bill Clinton’s tax hikes passed.
Democrats lost both houses of Congress the next year.
“I might be inviting a storm of flames by saying this on FR...but overall I like the plan. It’s miles better than Obamacare, and while not perfect and containing a few things here and there I’m not crazy about, I can live with it.”
Yes, and at least it’s a start! If it removes the “required menu of HC necessities,” You at least have a mechanism where the individual can buy coverages that he or she thinks they need and not an “Obamacare laundry list” of stuff you don’t need (and they are mostly political add-ons that Liberals liked) gets the process of premium reductions started. The one item that doesn’t get enough discussion, but Scalise touched on it today in the Rose Garden is deductibles. You are paying for nothing, if your deductibles are so high you never get to your first dollar of insurance coverage. Say you buy coverage for $10k but your deductible minimum is another $10k. You are looking at having to spend $20,000. before you are “covered” for anything. So your $10k premium just goes to cover some indigent a$$hole that the insurance company has had foisted off on them by Obamacare. And He probably ends up with better healthcare than you do and you’re paying for it. Where I come from, that’s just vote buying.