Posted on 06/27/2017 7:45:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It isn’t even a delegated power given the federal government to be concerned with this issue.
“The CBO does note that the majority of this change next year would be the result of eliminating the penalty on not having insurance.”
Why do we care if those people choose not to have insurance?
Repeal and just walk away. Constitutionally, it’s not your business.
And most of them would be electively uninsured because they would not be coerced by the IRS into sigining up or paying tax penalties
So if 22 millions supposedly lose their “insurance” and the “insurance” is crap “insurance”
That’s considered a loss?
The USA should not be in the INSURANCE BUSINESS!
Many young might go with a catastrophic type policy and save money. This is the same CBO that never EVER gets anything right.
It is a move in the right direction. The base assumption is these people can’t get any healthcare coverage otherwise......which is false.
They cut the growth of the program.....so it really isn’t a cut. Get the government out of it. Americans can buy car insurance, home owners insurance....they should be able to buy their health insurance. If they had to pay for what it costs, we would be far healthier as a nation. As long as someone else is paying the bill, folks have no incentive to make smart choices. It is unfortunate, but it is also human nature.
22 million is a fake number.
15 million of those did not “lose” insurance. They did not *want* insurance, and when they were no longer forced to buy it, they didn’t.
It is nonsense to call it “losing insurance”.
It is as though a rapist stops raping someone, and the media says the victim “lost access to sex”.
It’s lies anyway. The 22 million aren’t being left, they’d be leaving on their own.
The estimate is that without a mandate, 22 million would choose to go uninsured.
“It isn’t even a delegated power given the federal government to be concerned with this issue.”
The Fraud and his worshippers politicized EVERYTHING.
Which is really unfortunate for those “conservatives” who are willing to believe Big Media headlines verbatim as long as they’re not DIRECTLY related to politics.
More CBO bull crap. If you could see the assumptions they were told to evaluate on you would see that CBO is anything but nonpartisan.
Hmmm...
Left unsaid is what happens when the current law collapses somewhere around 2018 or 19.
So, what they are saying is that most of those "uninsured" would be people who chose not to purchase insurance. Not that they would suddenly find themselves without insurance due to no fault of their own.
Where does it say in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or even the Articles of Confederation, or any government document that you have a right to free or cheap insurance paid in part or all by your neighbors?
The only place I find it is in Takaful, a piece of Sharia law, (what a surprise). But even it is funded by donations and not taxes. So, sorry left, shouldn’t qualify (yet).
rwood
Here are my questions:
1. Are these numbers based on before of after the Senate added back in the penalty for not having coverage?
2. What happened to an option of having catastrophic coverage in lieu of regular medical coverage?
3. How many people who presently have coverage are in effect without it because between their deductibles and premiums are unable to benefit from the “coverage” they supposedly have.
These asshats need get over the notion that “insurance” equals health care. It does not.
When DeathCare was being pushed, it was 14 million who didn’t have insurance. Oddly enough, that was approximately the number of illegals.
Now it’s 22 million. Number of illegals?
The federal government has no business in this anyway
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