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To: dila813

Exactly. Repeal the whole thing and go back to pre-ACA health insurance.

Why replace??


4 posted on 03/11/2017 12:17:54 PM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Fedzilla gained enormous power from Obamacare.
Fedzilla’s attendants in Congress are never going to take that back.
The structure of putting the federal government at the center of all healthcare will not be dismantled.
Fedzilla wants to keep all your medical records.


13 posted on 03/11/2017 12:33:47 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
"Why replace??" Exactly! Get rid of this disaster FIRST and then we can have a chat about 'free market' healthcare.



49 posted on 03/11/2017 3:21:21 PM PST by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
go back to pre-ACA health insurance

Pre-ACA health insurance is the CAUSE of Obamacare, returning to it won't solve the problem.

53 posted on 03/11/2017 3:35:17 PM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012; dila813

Pre-ACA was not that great and was certainly not a free market. Trump and Republicans have a mandate to “repeal and replace”. Nothing ever said it had to be done simultaneously, and it shouldn’t.

Repeal it. No mandates, penalties, required coverages, no taxes, no paying insurers’ losses, no expansion of Medicaid. Just repeal it. With it gone, there will be pressure to do something that will actually decrease HEALTH CARE costs in a replacement bill, which CANNOT be simply subsidizing insurance costs.

Replace it. With a new law that JUST targets and eliminates every barrier to competition for lower HEALTH CARE costs not INSURANCE costs. And do nothing else in that bill, just create a free market (not “restore” since one hasn’t existed in decades). This would include stopping states from enacting their own requirements for coverage, malpractice tort reform with ‘loser pays’ and severe limits on non-economic damage awards, allowing re-importation of FDA approved drugs so Americans aren’t paying more than other countries’ citizens do, stripping the AMA of its monopoly on licensing physicians and accrediting medical schools, streamline FDA approval for drugs already approved in other countries, etc. If it is a barrier to entry in providing health care or insurance for health care, kill it in the Replace bill.

People seem eager to let the States take charge and be “50 laboratories” for experimentation, but as a resident of Californistan I am more frightened of what my state would do to me than even Obamacare did. If left to its own devices California would impose socialized medicine and taxes to pay for it in a heartbeat. The federal government should protect people from State-run monopolies and barriers to entry just as it does corporate monopolies.

Finally, get real about entitlement spending. For Medicare and Medicaid, that means a VOUCHER for LESS than was spent per beneficiary in 2016 that people can use to buy private insurance. Get the unaccountable (and expensive) government bureaucrats out of the loop of authorizing and paying for every single test and procedure some quack wants to perform — or just claims he performed to get payment. Insurance company employees striving to preserve every bit of profit won’t blindly pay — not when they know the voucher amounts available are fixed and they can’t pass along premium increases to Medicaid and Medicare voucher holders.


87 posted on 03/11/2017 8:07:31 PM PST by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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