Posted on 01/03/2017 10:39:09 AM PST by mdittmar
Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of Obamacare, President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program that provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.
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Blow it up; and pass a bill saying that such a _law_ cannot be viewed as a tax or lawful. Judge Roberts really had to hit the kool-aid on allowing it to be found Constitutional.
Even if 60 votes were required, by 2019 we should have that.
Good luck with that.
What is worse than an outrageous premium with an equally outrageous deductible that means you’ll pay $20,000 out of pocket before insurance picks up a nickle?
So what is the problem as you see it? Do you think it will ever get repealed.
Paying more than that.
If not now then no, not ever.
NO REPEAL JUST REJECT
This is directly because of Obamacare. When it gets repealed rates will find the market level again.. If nothing else, at the very least I cancel the insurance and put the premiums in the bank for my own health fund.
Yes, government bad, but how many people on this site are on Medicare ?
BTTT
...And cancelled mine 3 times, while tripling the monthly cost and deductible.
The Healthcare Act is sucking the life out of the economy. It is taking all of the disposable income from people with lower wages. If it is not repealed, it will destroy the economy.
There is no evidence she was “booted” at all - indeed, the opposite.
That said, I don’t see how a daytime news show on NBC is going to be a success or a supposed step up.
It says it could take “months”...they cannot take that long. This big ticket stuff needs to be passed within 1 month or less and signed into law...don’t let it drag and allow the media the opposition to organize and move closer to midterm election season. Get it done now.
Even so, if the only thing they had passed was a “mandate”, it would have never had the problems it had - they not only passed a mandate of buying a plan, but also mandated what kinds of plans were available that you had to buy, including things like requiring 60 year olds to purchase pediatric dental care on the plans. That stuff is what crashed the system. It wasn’t enough to require the purchase - but you had to buy what they wanted you to buy as well.
They found the market level - you're paying it. If they cancelled Obamacare tomorrow would you drop your insurance? No, you wouldn't. So why should they lower their rates?
If nothing else, at the very least I cancel the insurance and put the premiums in the bank for my own health fund.
You could do that now and the fine you would pay would be a lot less than the premiums you are paying.
It will have to be phased to keep the Left from screaming in agony and parading all them that "lost their superb plans" out to "prove" that trump hates the little folks.
The left are going to scream anyway. Once the repeal is announced then insurance companies are going to bail from the exchanges as fast as they can since there is no way they can make money without the Obamacare protections, so why delay the inevitable? We will almost certainly face 2018 without any coverage for those who were on Obamacare, and with whatever excuse for a replacement a year or two or three away. So why prolong the agony? Make a quick, clean break and let the market sort itself out. The short term pain will be more than offset by the long term gain of having the government out of the health care insurance business.
You must already be set up so such a event wouldn't hurt you. The whys are basically the same reason why if they decided to cut Social Security by 90%, and didn't phase it in over some years, and making sure there wasn't a full brunt hit right off the bat, they would leave millions starving in the streets. Not that hard to grasp.
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