Insurance company bailout.. not just no!
There is no repeal on the table.
Obamacare is like a bus controlled by 100 drivers (senators) that is headed, full speed, towards a thick concrete wall - and they are all arguing over how we should apply the brakes.
They will not agree. They will NEVER agree.
We will finally come to a stop when the bus actually hits the wall. The good news is that the bus will be stopped. We can assess the damage and move on after that.
Any red state Democrats looking to change their minds?
FU Rue Paul.
You are on the same side as McCain.
Paul is cut from the same cloth as McConnell. Kentucky needs to get his hand out of their collective pockets.
As I understand it, the federal government is going to put Medicaid off on the states. It is changing it’s method of payments to block grants to the states rather than paying the funds directly to medical facilities.
Folks, this isn’t a big pay-day for insurance companies. It is merely a shift in the way things are done.
The intent is to make states more responsible about how they administer their Medicaid programs.
This makes states the stakeholders of the programs. If they can administer the funds better than they have, they win. If they don’t, they have to fork over more state funds to augment the federal grant money.
This is an effort to reign in Medicaid costs. It’s one of the things we wanted Trump to do.
Medicaid is one of the toughest things to get the government out of. We’re talking about poor people who don’t get medical care unless the government covers it. It’s the only part of Obamacare that is almost impossible to eliminate, and in fact was being paid out before Obamacare.
Any tactics to get states more responsible, to cut Medicaid or administer it better, is a big big big big win.
Please don’t get lost in the “oh this is another payday for insurers nonsense”.
Some states like California bastardized MediCaid with their Medi-Cal program, giving it out to as many citizens as they could, trying to be the big Mother State, a gift from the Leftist’s paradise.
This new method of doing things, makes this kind of thing, a thing of the past. When states have to start forking over funds, they’ll be more judicious.
What in the sam hell is wrong with that?
No deals get passed in D.C. unless everyone gets a slice of the pie.
Hell, if they’d cut the trillion dollars and all mandates and all taxes out of Ocare, I’d support it.