Posted on 01/22/2017 12:16:41 PM PST by Navy Patriot
The Trump administration may no longer enforce a rule requiring individual Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty if they do not, a senior White House official said on Sunday
Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said President Donald Trump "may stop enforcing the individual mandate."
Separately, on CBS' "Face the Nation" show, she reiterated Republican promises that no one would lose their health insurance under Obamacare while a replacement is being developed.
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[Insurance companies made record profits last year.
They will not be pleased.]
Freedom loving patriotic American citizens will be highly pleased. I am so glad for the conservatives of America.
[ Obamacare. It’s unconstitutional. Justice Roberts notwithstanding.]
Justice Roberts will not live that down nor hear the end of it if he continues to support unconstitutional and unaffordable health care. Politicians and judges are becoming more foolish and unjust as time goes on.
God bless President Donald Trump for taking out the mandate that enslaves and deprives and overcharges for health care, the government does good when it protect citizens from evil people who do evil, like so many politicians who forgot who they are and the sufferings of those whom they represent. The forgotten working people are being remembered by President Trump as he works to remove the chokehold of unaffordable government healthcare. The government was not meant to set up or run any thing but was created to punish the evildoers who robbed and killed and destroyed citizens. What program does government run well?
Enriching elitist Public "Servants"?
We still don’t know what the left has on him, he may still have some pressure on his rulings.
More winning.
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If you repeal the individual mandate, then how do you fix the free rider problem of individuals who choose not to carry insurance but still expect world class Medical Care when they are sick or injured?
I think we as a society have decided we are not going to withhold emergency medical care from someone regardless of their inability to pay. Furthermore, Reagan signed into law EMTALA which is an unfunded mandate on hospitals and doctors to provide emergency care regardless of ability to pay. How do we fix the problem of individuals being provided expensive Medical Care who have no way of paying for it since they choose not to purchase insurance until they become sick?
Live by the waiver of the ObummerCare mandate, die by the waiver of the ObummerCare mandate.
Exactly.
Kellyanne is wonderfully symbolic!
Starting when, exactly?
2017 tax year, or will he tell the IRS to not enforce it starting NOW, which means fix the 2016 forms due on 4/15/17 to eliminate it?
Congratulate them for CHOOSING to be Self Insured, and note that they have great flexibility in CHOOSING what specialists to approve and what procedures to allow and what contracts they negotiate. Note that they are allowed unlimited latitude in the use of their resources, including their Medical Savings Account, for their best interests.
It doesn't get any better than that.
“If you repeal the individual mandate, then how do you fix the free rider problem of individuals who choose not to carry insurance but still expect world class Medical Care when they are sick or injured?
“I think we as a society have decided we are not going to withhold emergency medical care from someone regardless of their inability to pay. Furthermore, Reagan signed into law EMTALA which is an unfunded mandate on hospitals and doctors to provide emergency care regardless of ability to pay. How do we fix the problem of individuals being provided expensive Medical Care who have no way of paying for it since they choose not to purchase insurance until they become sick?”
Excellent questions. Obviously the leftist plan is to make as many people dependent on government in as many areas of their lives as possible. When leftists take over government, you can count on at least one new freebie boondoggle. Frequently, even the Republicans do the same. (Vide the Reagan reference you made and G. W. Bush’s MediPill program.)
My solution, since I don’t have to worry about buying votes to get elected because I’m not running, it to say that all federal welfare programs would be phased out in two years, with the individual states free to continue them or not at their choice.
As to paying for free riders, the indigent, etc., it would make sense for those states who do want to be involved in medical programs to get out of direct funding of medical treatment altogether and to instead encourage individuals to donate to charity hospitals and clinics.
How to you handle emergency / catastrophic care for the uninsured? Deny them life saving treatment due to their choice not to insure and their inability to pay?
Don't know, could be now, later or retroactive.
Remember the ACA was designed Weaponized!
President Trump can waiver because Obama included Presidential waivers so he could reward his pets, contributors, Commie Unions, political agitators, Rat Elite insider businessmen, ...and PUNISH and control working taxpayers.
If President Trump granted waivers to everyone we would be closer to equal again for anytime since the ACA was signed.
I agree with your position that absent government funding, we would likely see a golden age of charity that would do great things to unite our country and society. Fraternal organizations are obsolete in this era of the nanny state.
You take care of them in the emergency room and garnish their wages for the rest of their lives just like before!!
.... except that with the type of bills we are talking about and the type of person who typically goes uninsured, a bankruptcy is virtually guaranteed and eliminates the possibility of future wage garnishment.
Same way it was handled before ACA, but slimmed down and with more teeth.
Whining about denial of emergency care generally is a straw man argument proposed by those that want to just reach into the public wallet anytime they desire for whatever they desire. It is the rare exception to the norm, and the USA that USED TO HAVE the best health care system in the world managed just fine with voluntary charity for the extreme emergencies.
There is NO God given RIGHT to health care or perfect health, only a right to seek health care and allow charity.
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