Posted on 02/28/2011 9:08:57 AM PST by fightinJAG
There’s no question the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) must be repealed. There are 10 structural flaws in Obamacare, and each is so potentially damaging, Congress will have to resort to major corrective action even if the critics of the PPACA are not involved. Further, each must be addressed in any new attempt to create workable health care reform.
1. An impossible mandate.
The new health care law requires all Americans to buy a health insurance plan with a cost that is expected to grow at twice the rate of their incomes. Not only will health care claim more of every family’s disposable income, Obamacare prevents families from using many of the tools the private sector now uses to control costs (such as less expensive limited-benefit plans, higher cost sharing, etc).
Regardless of the outcome of current efforts to repeal the entire law, the urgent solution is to repeal the individual and employer mandates. Instead, government should offer a generous tax subsidy to people to buy insurance but allow them the freedom and flexibility to adjust their benefits and cost-sharing to control their health costs.
2. A bizarre system of subsidies.
PPACA offers radically different subsidies to people in the same income level, depending on where they obtain their health insurance: At work, through an exchange, or through Medicaid. These subsidies (and the accompanying mandates) will encourage employers to drop insurance coverage altogether for millions of workers, which could also cause them to lose their jobs.
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There is only ONE solution needed- REPEAL
Great article by some of the top experts on federal health law.
You got there first!
Yes, there’s only one solution. It starts with “R” and ends with “-EPEAL”
Thanks for posting.
Solutions:
1. Repeal it
2. Drive a stake in its heart
The problem is that the SCOTUS already ruled that the government CAN regulate things when a person doesn't buy something under the commerce clause. Actually, it comes from one of the greatest judicial expansions of government power in history. I don't remember the details, but there was a farmer who wanted to grow his own feed corn for his cattle, and the courts ruled that he couldn't do it, since his raising his own feed would effect the interstate traffic in cattle feed.
I wish I could remember the details, but this sort of scares me.
Mark
My 10:
1) Repeal it.
2) Repeal it.
3) Repeal it.
4) Repeal it.
5) Repeal it.
6) Repeal it.
7) Repeal it.
8) Repeal it.
9) Repeal it.
10) Repeal it.
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