(How will this be paid for if passed? Will Medicare again be robbed?)
The medicare (federal health insurance) and medicaid (state health insurance) systems will remain the government safety nets for older and lower income populations. [Medicaid income eligibility qualifications in a 0 to 30-50k range depending on dependents.] This should have been the original approach all along; to cover the uninsured by giving them access to medicaid and the entire mess could have been avoided. Alas, that wasn’t the intent of the takeover for all of the aforementioned reasons.
(Penalties may be zero now but can the next Dimwit President increase those penalties if the mandates stand?)
Under Trump’s long-term (3 step) approach – the non-government healthcare market, the majority of the population, will break free from almost all of the ObamaCare government regulations; and the insurance market will be empowered to provide an insurance product that fits the individual needs of the person purchasing the insurance.
( as Trump promised, to open the opportunity to buy insurance across state lines)
Step #3 establishes the broader parameters for the non-government health insurance market
Access to Medicaid?! NYS’s counties cost share the Medicaid burden with the state. Medicaid is bankrupting our counties. We can’t afford any more dang access.