Posted on 08/10/2017 6:50:33 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The Trump administration is now confronted with the challenge of deciding how to oversee ObamaCare, a law it fiercely opposes but that is still on the books.
With the Senate’s failure to repeal the healthcare law last month, the Trump administration now has pressing questions to answer about how it will manage a system that provides insurance to more than 10 million people.
President Trump has threatened to cancel key ObamaCare payments to insurers as part of an effort to make the health law “implode.” But he is yet to follow through on that threat, leaving insurers in a state of anxious uncertainty.
The next sign-up period for enrolling in ObamaCare begins Nov. 1. The Obama administration ran advertisements to encourage enrollment, but Trump officials have signaled that promotion effort might come to an end.
Indeed, the Trump administration cancelled some ObamaCare ads upon taking office in January, which was the end of the last sign-up period.
Trump officials also have the power to loosen up on enforcement and regulation, particularly on the mandate under the healthcare law for people to have coverage.
The difficulty for the White House is that Trump and, by extension, congressional Republicans, could be blamed if ObamaCare premiums spike or the marketplaces start to collapse.
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With everyone dropping out of it, what’s to oversee?
They should take a new tactic- show them how the 3000-page law AND 30,000 pages of regulations are UNENFORCEABLE IN PRACTICE
An executive order forcing all exempt government officials, employees and companies, unions, etc. to participate would be a good start!
Trump can grant 330 million waivers.
Barack Hussein Obama CHOSE to not enforce the Defense of Marriage Act which was a BI-PARTISAN federal law. BO just ignored it until the Supreme Court, with two of his detestable appointees (IIRC) killed it.
Trump should consider doing the same with the Death Panels Law.
Just announce, using the same phrases and words used when the Kenyan/Hawaiian/Kansan/Illinoisan failure decided to IGNORE federal law.
Obama “made it work” by doing things not specified in the legislation and in some cases ignored the law as written. Trump should not “bypass congress” to “make it work” - if they want it to work they need to specify how he should do that. Just say
1) Congress hasn’t sent a replacement so Obamacare is the law
2) My duty as president is to implement and enforce the laws as passed by congress
3) I will follow the Obamacare law to the letter
Then implement it as written.
The details don’t need to be said for Ds to understand
* No exemptions that congress did not specifically include
* No money to pay for Obamacare unless allocated by congress for it
If needed keep tweeting
“I’m implementing the law as written”
“I will not usurp congress’s role in the budget process by ‘finding’ money for obamacare.”
“I will not give exemptions that congress does not authorize”
“I respect the separation of power and the role congress is supposed to play in government”.
When the excuses start pouring in from Ds, go on the offensive
“Obamacare STOLE $20 billion from student loans (did you all forget?)”
“Obamacare specified some insurance company payments/subsidies/profits for 3 years. They ran out in 2017. I cannot continue paying them without congress budgeting to boost insurer profits as specified by the Ds. Why did the Ds only provide for 3 years? (hint: CBO score)”
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There are a lot of things people forget and Ds DO NOT want to be remembered.
Selective (rare) enforcement.
Dies of its own internal illogic.
Easy. Repeal all waivers that favor democrap party constituencies, starting with the bogus “congress is a small business” BS.
Politicians and their minions need to live under the same laws as everyone else.
I hate to say it, but the basis of Obamacare hanging on is that voters (who elect the Senators and Congressmen) are scared.
To me it’s a financial issue. We’d like everyone to have super medical care but that’s unaffordable. When will the medical care financial crisis come to center stage? Maybe never. Maybe we can go on forever and just let debt accumulate.
Look at us now. The economy is supposedly in pretty good shape and improving, and the country’s deep in debt. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. Maybe debt can be ignored.
O noes... do I smell an #InsuranceCompayBailourt.. kinda like the 50, no the 70 Billion dollars in direct payments to insurance companies proposed by the GOP and the GOPe. Stabilization funds, fraud.
3) I will follow the Obamacare law to the letter
Trump is not going to win that battle right now. The GOPe will work with pinko Democrats and pass bills that override him.
Well said. One of our Framers remarked that the best way to be rid of a bad law was to enforce it.
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