Since he is against the individual mandate, what is his proposal for people who have pre-existing conditions to get insurance?
The mandate was the lynchpin to forcing insurance companies to take people with pre-existing conditions? Are those people going to fall through the cracks?
Just askin.
People who can’t afford it can enroll in expanded Medicaid/Medicare.
No one in this country will be left to die in the streets because they’re sick or can’t afford treatment.
Private health insurance can cover healthy people who can and should pay for their health care.
From the tenth debate Texas CNN transcript:
RUBIO: The individual mandate. He said he likes the individual mandate portion of it, which I don’t believe that should be part of it. That should not remain there. I think here’s what we need to replace it with.
We need to repeal Obamacare completely and replace it with a system that puts Americans in charge of their health care money again. If your employer wants to buy health insurance for you, they can continue to do so from any company in America they want to buy it from.
Otherwise, your employers can provide you health care money, tax- free, not treated as income, and you can use that money only for health care, but you can use it to fund health care any way you want, fully fund a health savings account, the combination of a health savings account or a private plan from any company in any state in the country.
And if you don’t have that, then you will have a refundable tax credit that provides you health care money to buy your own health care coverage. And that, I think, is a much better approach than Obamacare, which, by the way, isn’t just bad for health care, it’s bad for our economy. It is a health care law that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people’s hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law. And I will repeal it as president and we will replace it with something substantially better for all Americans.
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BASH: Mr. Trump, Senator Rubio just said that you support the individual mandate. Would you respond?
TRUMP: I just want to say, I agree with that 100 percent, except pre-existing conditions, I would absolutely get rid of Obamacare. We’re going to have something much better, but pre-existing conditions, when I’m referring to that, and I was referring to that very strongly on the show with Anderson Cooper, I want to keep pre-existing conditions.
I think we need it. I think it’s a modern age. And I think we have to have it.
The mandate was the kingpin to get all your account numbers and assets, etc etc.
Used to be a thing called charity.
The individual mandate was intended to bring more people into the insurance pools and thus lower the cost of insuring sick people. (Failure.)
However, even without the individual mandate, insurance companies are still prevented from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions (under Obamacare.)
So no one slips through the cracks. They never did really. During annual open enrollment, all major carriers have allowed pre-existing conditions for years and years.
Those people are going to pay proportionately. Who knows? We all might just get to go back to not paying for Flukey stuff too. Fluky might have to pay for her own birth control and those who choose health destroying lifestyles might have to go back to paying the piper, instead of everyone sharing in the cost.