Crooks and Liars
Posted on 05/05/2018 1:05:52 PM PDT by davikkm
Conservatives continue to press for a new Obamacare repeal bill, even as the Republican leadership expresses “disinterest” in repealing Obamacare before the 2018 midterm election. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he, along with other conservatives, continues to work on a new block grant Obamacare repeal proposal.
“We have obligation to fix what’s broken,” Santorum told Breitbart News.
The Heritage Foundation, the Galen Institute, and Santorum have been meeting at the Heritage’s offices approximately once a week for months.
Marie Fishpaw, Heritage’s director of domestic policy studies, argued that they will continue to push to repeal Obamacare despite the political headwinds.
“This is outside-in and bottom-up,” Fishpaw told The Hill. Fishpaw said that the group of conservatives will continue to repeal Obamacare “even in the face of continued leadership disinterest.”
Fishpaw argued that “disinterest” was a nice word for leadership’s attitude towards their new Obamacare repeal bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
‘Conservatives Press for Obamacare Repeal Despite GOP Leadership’s ‘Disinterest’
When are you going to change GOP leadership then? Get Paul Ryan out now and get someone from the Freedom Caucus in, now.
What GOP leadership?
LOL, what a hoot!
Trump is all we’ve got, and he’s fighting an uphill battle as much as we are.
I’d like and others need lower cost options.
Insurers need the freedom to offer affordable plans that don’t offer every bell and whistle so more Americans can be covered well.
Repeal probably isn’t politically possible, but of additional choice is.
We also need for the Left to stop using insurance to press their mad schemes of common provision through manipulating what people have to be insured for. Get the States out of socializing risk, allow purchasing insurance across State lines, and finally and most importantly break the link between employment BENEFITS and healthcare.
End the things that enable the abuse of insurance as if it were insurance. Obamaharm was just more of the same stupid that broke the system in the first place and put near every ounce of it was either something the Left did directly or something people had to do because the Left did something dumb.
“Repeal probably isn’t politically possible, but of additional choice is.”
Meanwhile individuals and families purchasing in the private open market will continue to be subjected to unaffordable premiums, high deductibles, rising premiums, fewer providers, and smaller provider lists. Thank you GOP.
Ryan and the other GOP leaders keep talking about market based solutions. If they can’t repeal O’care they can at least amend it to include those market reforms. Five desperately needed are:
1) national marketplace - allow insurers to sell across state lines and customers to buy policies across state lines.
2) pricing transparency - providers and pharmaceuticals. Providers should be required to post prices and discounts available online.
3) anti-trust law enforcement to break up concentrated monopolies and oligopolies (big pharma, big hospital networks, big insurance companies). Free markets require many competitors to drive down costs.
4) allow insurers to offer more choices in plan coverages. Allow any citizen to purchase catastrophic insurance plans
5) eliminate insurance company subsidies
Unfortunately the GOP is owned by big pharma and big hospital networks. The party believes in crony capitalism, not free markets. No meaningful reform will come from unprincipled Congress critters absorbed with building campaign war chests and lining their pockets.
So true!!! There has got to be a way to push them to act.
FAILURE TO REPRESENT: The base elected them to do this, their failures to represent their constituents is why they’re losing seats. They are lying lazy do nothing societal parasites.
Crooks and Liars
It should be repealed in sections to draw attention to how horrid the law has been.
It would be if done in sections to keep control of the debate. That what you could focus the hearings, floor debate, etc. to the actual damage the individual sections have done to healthcare. A full blanket repeal equals a debate framed around "Republicans want to take healthcare away from the poor and the sick" in which those trying to repeal are constantly on the defensive. The individual mandate repeal was successful that was passed as part of tax reform - the debate was focused on one aspect of Obamacare and the damage it had done.
Non-Obamacare policies are being sold again and heavily advertised due to the repeal of the individual mandate (yes, that went through and was signed into law - some seem to be unaware of this) - you can’t be fined for purchasing them anymore like before. President Trump also has reformed regulations allowing for Association Health Plans which will also have a positive effect to undermine Obamacare.
You are absolutely correct that passing other healthcare reforms if a repeal can’t be passed of Obamacare itself would also serve to help people get around it...it could cause it to “wither on the vine”. Or, do a piece meal approach to repeal to individually highlight the destructive elements of the law to keep control the debate - such as the banning of physician-owned hospitals...40 hospitals were halted in their tracks at the time of passage - no telling how many more that would have been built since then. This not only reduces choice, but capacity. Do the same with other sections and highlight their destructive effects. The committee hearings with testimony, etc. would keep control of the debate. Blanket repeal allows for too many variables in discussion to allow for the generic counter argument “Republicans want to take away healthcare for the poor and the sick” because you lose control of the discussion.
I’m sure Mitch McConnell is making money off of Obamacare.
The Republican leadership are all Deep State NWO Socialists
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