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1 posted on 06/29/2015 8:22:57 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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2 posted on 06/29/2015 8:24:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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End it, don’t mend it...................


3 posted on 06/29/2015 8:24:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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If the GOP was not willing to end the subsidies for 8 million people in states on the Federal exchange, they sure as hell are not going to kick tens of millions of recipients off of expanded Medicaid.

No, we are on the slow glide path to single payer.


4 posted on 06/29/2015 8:29:53 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Single Payer is the goal. Once you realize that all else falls into place.


5 posted on 06/29/2015 8:32:53 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“...The 107 million people on Medicaid or Medicare in 2013 will increase to 135 million by 2018...”

Maybe. But it should be noted that Medicaid (pure welfare) and Medicare (funded by its truly eligible users) are VERY different things. Obama is robbing Medicare (reducing payments to medical industry) to pay for the pure welfare of Medicaid (to buy votes) to cover those that PAY NOTHING. Medicare, funded by decades of working people being taxed for it, and continuing to be funded by retired folks who use it (it is not free), was working pretty well until Obamacare went into effect.

This horror story has to end.


6 posted on 06/29/2015 8:33:25 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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We’ll need to repair the Ophonybama Presidential wreckage!

I wonder how long THAT will take?


8 posted on 06/29/2015 8:50:23 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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“government centralization of health insurance at the expense of private insurance”

I myself do not believe private insurance revenues nor profits are declining. I’ve seen no evidence of this. In fact, quite the contrary.


9 posted on 06/29/2015 8:58:10 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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Look at the dysfunctional VA... that is the model for healthcare post Obamacare. Us peons will be on long waiting lists to see a doctor or take our chances waiting in some dingy government clinic for a 10 minute visit with a physicians assistant. Need to see a specialist... more waiting. Rationing of care will be the norm. However, if you are a government official or have money you will get VIP treatment at the best medical centers


10 posted on 06/29/2015 9:43:50 AM PDT by The Great RJ (“Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.” Margaret Thatcher)
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[[fundamental problems with the Affordable Care Act remain.]]

There aren’t any ‘problems’- The supreme court will pull out their pom poms asnd jump up and down cheering their beloved leader- and simply rewrite everything to save it


11 posted on 06/29/2015 9:45:50 AM PDT by Bob434
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The basic premise of this article is completely flawed. Private health insurance is facing the same demographic disaster that will cause Medicare to collapse, unless these companies go out and adopt the exact same practices that the government uses to control costs -- namely, limiting payments to doctors, refusing coverage for certain treatments and procedures, etc.

ANY business model that is built on a third-party payment system is doomed to fail, because it lacks both of the key ingredients for a normal financial transaction: a buyer who actually pays for the product/service and a seller who delivers the product/service and gets paid for it.

12 posted on 06/29/2015 10:45:22 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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Ironically, it is the growing government centralization of health insurance at the expense of private insurance that must be addressed.

Duh, that's the whole PURPOSE of Obamacare.

13 posted on 06/29/2015 10:46:24 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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Repair it? No, help make it crash and burn.

I am currently trying to figure out how to reduce my Reportable Income for 2016 so I can qualify for Obamacare Subsidies. After all, according to The Dear Leader, Obamacare is woven into the fabric of our Society.

In CA where we live, they’re Passing Laws to pay for Illegal Invaders Healthcare. Nice to know what my Taxes are paying for, never mind EBT, Welfare and Section 8.

Since we currently pay about $1,900 a Month for our Healthcare Coverage, up from $1,200 in December of 2013 thanks to Obamacare, I figure we can get a $700 Monthly Subsidy. I’m already expecting our Premium to rise to $2,200 a Month in 2016.

Not sure if I can pull it off. We have to sell our House so we can get rid of the Mortgage Payment. We can live off the Equity from the Sale for a few Years instead of draining our IRA’s like we are doing today.

Maybe I’m just fed up, but I see no way out. Every Dollar counts, so I might as well reduce our Tax Burden and join the Obamacare is here to stay Club. Well, until it collapses under its own weight anyway.


17 posted on 06/29/2015 11:17:11 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Erections have Consequences, just ask Obama's Parents. Oh wait, they're Dead.)
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I don’t like this type of article. WSJ, the newspaper of record for the crony capitalists, is “concerned” about obamacare. How touching.

So long as we limit ourselves to the alternatives and strategies proposed by those who have a vested interest in our defeat, we will lose.

What we should be thinking about is not how we’re going to fight obamacare, but how we’ll get around it. Things that individuals can do to render it irrelevant or as irrelevant as it can be made. You also may have heard these things called SOLUTIONS. They rarely come from politicians and their ilk.

On that note, let me propose a SOLUTION that might work for some people. The health sharing ministries. There are 5 or so that operate on Biblical principles. They are EXEMPT from thr obamacare tax. They also don’t contribute a dime to obamacare or its cohorts.


20 posted on 06/29/2015 12:21:53 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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