Posted on 05/14/2018 2:55:19 PM PDT by davikkm
Trump said, “We got rid of the individual mandate. We have great plans coming out. … And we’re doing everything to keep those premiums down, but it’s a failed experiment, Obamacare. But wait until you see the plans we have coming out, literally, over the next four weeks. We have great healthcare plans coming out. But we got rid of the individual mandate.”
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Great, because once the mandate was pulled, Obamacare imploded. No more socialized healthcare in this country.
Implement full interstate insurance and let free markets/ competition/capitalism do it’s thing, MAGA! Thank-you President Trump!
Health care or health insurance?
Whatever.
Just watch and see how the Uniparty will unite to oppose it.
It’s what they do.
Now that Obamacare is dead, all other Socialized Medicine must also die.
First get rid of Medicare and then kill Medicaid.
Medical prices would fall and truly become affordable to everyone.
Well then they’ll be responsible for people dying in the streets if it’s not passed like some nitwit bobble head woman reporter suggested should 0bama care not pass.
This should be fun.
Incentivize, or at least create allowances for - people to stay outside our crony capitalist insurance system, for example, to self-insure, or not insure at all.
create avenues for people to negotiate and pay cash directly to health service providers.
Get Fed.gov out of healthcare. Turn it over to states.
Congress will never vote for it if it helps the people more than the medical industry.
Amen!
My wife starts medicafe in august. I’m okay with it going away if gov will refund all of the money we have paid into medicare for the last 40 years.
We don’t need a better version of Obamacare, complete with government plans—we need to repeal the government’s current involvement and meddling in the free healthcare market.
I hope the push HSA’s. Maybe find a way to incentivize them.
I don’t know if I will like his plan or not but ... this guy never sleeps!
Healthcare pricing is systemically fraudulent and predatory. "Heath Insurance" is simply a profitable means to conceal the true costs of health care - and who will be stuck paying for it.
We have over 100 years of laws already on the books which forbid most of the common practices used to set prices in this industry.
Lets enforce them.
True market reforms require:
1) Complete price transparency. All providers should be required post prices on the internet including discounted prices they give to various insurance companies.
2) Anti-trust enforcement. Free markets require many competitors for innovation and holding down costs. End concentration in the industry. Bigger is not better.
3) Require Big Pharma to make public the prices it charges for drugs in other nations compared to the USA.
4) Tort reform
5) National marketplace. Allow providers to compete across state lines.
You clever Jester! Dream on!
That money has all been spent and it is gone. You're going to get nothing from the Government when medicare goes away.
You might get lower health care costs that would make the whole argument a moot point - if we can break the stranglehold that the "Health Care" industry has on Congress.
Right now, the major pharmaceutical companies spend as much or more on lobbying politicians than they do on medical research. We need to make that a bad investment.
Sorry Mr President. Healthcare plans do not come from the Government. Especially if they are categorized as “good” or “great”.
OK, let’s see the plans. First week in June.
“Obamacare imploded.”
Really? The agencies created to administer Obamacare are all operating and were fully funded in the omnibus spending bill. Billions of taxpayer dollars are still pouring into the bureaucrats. Congress refused to defund.
The rules and regulations associate with Obamacare governing providers, insurance plans, record keeping, and almost every dimension of healthcare in the US remain.
The redistribution of wealth continues. People in the private marketplace, who do not receive subsidies, continue to pay health insurance premiums 5 to 6 times what they paid prior to Obamacare for less benefits. High premiums and deductibles mean out of pocket costs for a couple can be $30,000 per year before any benefits are received.
Many states have only one insurance provider in private insurance marketplace, down from dozens pre Obamacare. There is a lack of choice in many regions of the USA.
Assembly line medicine is the norm for most Americans. The discretion of doctors is limited by federal regulations and insurance company requirements.
Hospitals are merging and buying up medical practices resulting in less competition along with strict constraints on physician discretion.
The pharmaceutical industry continues to consolidate, raising prices and saddling American consumers with the costs of R&D while selling product to foreign nations at a significant discount.
There is a physician shortage in many parts of the US due to doctors retiring rather than practicing in a highly regulated environment.
The subsidies remain.
The individual mandate may be gone but the high costs, lack of competition, huge administrative overhead, and lack of choice associated with Obamacare remain and will continue to strangle the healthcare system until Obamacare is completely repealed. Unfortunately there is no appetite for complete repeal in Congress so we will continue to have an inefficient, costly, and increasingly ineffective healthcare system.
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