Senate Inching Closer To ObamaCare-Repeal Compromise? (“Inching” being the operative word.)

Hotair ^ | 06/09/2017 | Ed Morrissey

[LS]

Andy Biggs of south Chandler was a “no.” He’s a staunch conservative, told us that he had promised full repeal. He thought anything less violated his promise to the voters. I can see his point.

[Alberta's Child]

However, the GOP has had six years to figure a way out of the box.

There's probably no way out of the box, since it's tied to a demographic distortion that isn't a political issue that can be fixed.

[henkster]

Then it’s empty rhetoric in pursuit of political power.

[itsahoot]

2. Impose annual and/or lifetime limits on claims.

Except for politicians of course. Maybe movie stars and football players. The rest report to recycle center.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe so -- but would you rather have a GOP Congress that doesn't fix Obamacare or a Democrat Congress that makes it worse?

Personally, I think Obamacare is so badly flawed that it will become irrelevant even if it's never repealed. Go back and look at the post-9/11 security requirements that were imposed on our ports, or the train control systems that were mandated by Congress in 2007. In both cases, the hard deadline for compliance by private industry and public agencies as come and gone, and the laws remain on the books even though they were never enforced because they were written by idiots who had no clue about how these industries operate.

I predict a similar outcome for Obamacare. Heck -- If I were in Congress I might even be inclined to leave it in place just so it serves as the defining historical legacy of that jug-eared nitwit.

[henkster]

Oh there’s no way I want the democrats back in charge. I just don’t like being lied to. With the democrats we get lied to and they wreck the country. With the GOP we just get lied to.

[hal ogen]

The “operative” phrase is “quislings doing what quislings do”.

[9YearLurker]

Yep, and they voted for repeal over and over and over again when they knew it wouldn’t pass. Old trick.

There is no excuse for pushing for a 7-year phase out unless they are simply trying to undermine Trump and see that he doesn’t get any good legislation passed.

[9YearLurker]

Nope—the longer they go without passing it, the less chance it will have to make a difference in time for 2018. The taxes, especially, are all or primarily corporate tax cuts, so they don’t sound good—they are only felt to be good as the economy has a chance to improve from them.

[9YearLurker]

The answer is to get the feds out of insurance regulation completely. Not their portfolio. We’ll never get around their subsidizing the poor, but the more they are out of the rest of the market the better.

That means interstate competition. That means no special tax break for employer-provided insurance. That means no federal mandates about how insurers craft their policies. That may mean states putting together pools for high-risk cases.