Phase 1 will end Obamacare>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
But just coincidentally it also hands health care back to the Health Insurance Corporations, allowing them to continue to drive health costs just as they did in the past.
WE DO NOT WANT THAT.
LIFT THE STATE LINES AND INTRODUCE COMPETITION......NOW!
And let the rest stand until phase 2.
OPEN THAT COMPETITION DOOR NOW!
I don’t think we are getting the whole story. Let’s give President Trump the opportunity to play HIS hand himself. I believe our President can be trusted to do the right thing.
Just look how quickly ISIS is being destroyed .. for example.
Now - Phase 1 will end Obamacare. The Senate rules for reconcilation with a Budget require what is being done to enable ending Obamacare with just 51 votes. Any other technique would allow filibusters and require 60 votes. No Democrat will vote for repeal.
Sit tight and let the system work. Investigate yourself and you will understand.
Even with competition, you’re gonna have failing, non-insurance insurance markets as long as you have guaranteed issue and community rating—two key components of Obamacare that the have kept in 2.0.
About the only acknowledged “stinker” they seem ready to ditch from Obamacare is the only good element to it—and that was beginning to tax employer-provided plans like regular income.
That tax deductability is a major wrench in the market that has led to every last shred of healthcare being covered under “insurance”. And making the majority of the private side of the market dependent on third-party payers (the already socialized Medicare and Medicaid are also by definition third-party payers) just leads to massive cost explosion—akin to government funding of student loans in higher ed.