Posted on 02/26/2017 9:24:52 AM PST by xzins
Kasich on ACA: There are some very conservative Rs in the House who are going to say just get rid of the whole thing & that's not acceptable pic.twitter.com/9XUlCfMzl2
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) February 26, 2017 by PAM KEY26 Feb 201711
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), a former candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, said it was “not acceptable” for Republicans in Washington, DC to completely “get rid” of the Affordable Care Act.
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I can't hold my breath that long.
Trump should demand that both houses of congress, as well as the executive and the judiciary and all associated bureaucracies must be covered exclusively by the identical Obamacare plan as ordinary Americans.
Demand a bill and a vote.
Keep track of the vote and fix the problem in 2018.
Is it that hard to do?
If the elected criminals refuse to create the bill, demand a vote on why not, same 2018 fix.
It's a win-win.
The Constitution absolutely forbids titles of nobility and tolerance of an aristocratic class.
Certainly not for a nasty, narcissistic control-freak like Kasich.
I stopped voting as I'm told around 2005. Have no intention of ever going there again, to the tiny extent that I might have had insanity episodes.
JK has no credibility.
“why not put them on Social Security, instead of their generous pension plan our reps get(I believe after one term!)?”
From Wikipedia:
“Members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five (5) years of service. A full pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age.”
They are incentivized to stay longer to increase their retirement. If term limits ever pass, retirement incentives should be changed to cap out at the term limit.
I think that the bottom line is that Congressional pensions are sweeter, but roughly in line with senior Federal Government norms and D.C. cost of living - except for the shorter timeframes to qualify. Having no pension other than Social Security would be a hardship on candidates who are not wealthy. Although they get a sweeter deal under FERS (Federal Employee Retirement System) than other employees, they get a lot less if they serve 5 years, than if they serve 30.
From Wikipedia:
“As of November 2014, senior Members of Congress who have been in office for at least 32 years can earn about $139,000 a year.”
...and of course, Cadillac health care.
Through no fault of my own either, and nothing is preventing me from joining them under the present mess that Obama and the "progressives' created.
We know who the responsible parties are, and no punishment, none, it too extreme to reward them with.
We KNOW who they all are.
Sign me up.
Covering pre-existing conditions = welfare, not insurance. Life is full of hard stories, and this is the type of thing that happens when the government acts lawlessly.
So you will rather give insane Hillary another bite of the "Destroy America" apple?
Just a thought when you're considering his views.....
BULLSHIRT!
Some of us who are old enough, will remember life BEFORE Obamacare.
(signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.)
“He (Kasich) did such crazy stuff that those of us who’d supported him for governor were amazed.”
Kasich has a reputation in D.C. as a sharp-elbowed, ornery guy. He is temperamentally kind of mean - quick to anger. He fights kind of mean.
He did great things on the budget while in Congress, but did not make friends with his opponents (unlike Mike Pence, who famously maintained the respect of opponents).
He does seem to be showing the signs of having stewed in the political swamp for too long - shifting leftward on social issues, and taking money from leftists for policy. He may have been personally vulnerable to manipulation based on his own pique, and hostility toward opponents.
It would end the Medicaid expansion and return it to the levels of pre-Obamacare.
On the plus side they've had seven years to observe what not to do.
Kasich used to be a Conservative.
But he did what Conservatives do. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Compromise his fake principles to curry favor and grant victory to the Left.
Every time.
What makes you think I would to that?
Sod off Kasich, you Soros stooge.
That is exactly what I meant, but I put it into clear words. The problem was that the medical doctors themselves got into the insurance business (Blue Cross, Blue Shield), competing with the benefits obtainable from private insurers (MetLife, Prudential, etc.).
My picture is that when they the doctors, then the major providers of the services, began to set the rates that the doctor-owned insurance company would pay them, the private insurers were at a loss to match, and the insured no longer had an agent to bargain for them, so the rates eventually skyrocketed, and the patient base just became a cash cow to milk at will, for whatever syndicate held the plundering levers.
Yes, and part of the problem is public sector unions -- they 'negotiate' with politicians for higher salaries and pensions at the expense of a third party (the taxpayer). The unions back the politicians (almost always Democrats) for election in exchange for cooperation in fleecing the taxpayers. If the politicians need more money, they raise taxes on the third party (taxpayers). The politicians never run out of other people's money so the wages and pensions keep climbing. With a private corporation funds are limited -- the corporation can only raise the price of their goods a limited amount before the competition puts them out of business -- so the union gains are constrained by market forces.
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