Posted on 03/30/2017 1:28:59 PM PDT by Boomer
Mine is a two-step plan (and you don’t have to do the second step, so it’s really a one-step plan).
STEP 1: Congress doesn’t repeal Obamacare! Instead, Congress passes a law, pursuant to its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, that says: “In America, it shall be legal to sell health insurance on the free market. This law supersedes all other laws, taxes, mandates, coverage requirements, regulations or prohibitions, state or federal.”
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Hi Boomer —
So, we would still have the individual mandates, and taxes?
Gwjack
Should be the new Geico slogan.
So simple even a Republican could do it.
Except it would be a lie.
Because Republicans can’t do anything.
Bkmk
I like this idea!
Unless healthcare COSTS are reigned in by prosecuting collusion and price fixing, no plan will work. No insurance company will charge a premium that loses them money.
Insurance is regulated by the states. Its a 10th Amendment issue.
None of that matters. The way to deal with this is to have an insurance company go to one state and offer low-cost insurance plans that don’t comply with the ACA, AHCA, or any other CACA Congress comes up with. It would be politically disastrous for anyone in Washington to take that away from the people who buy that coverage.
“It would be politically disastrous for anyone in Washington to take that away from the people who buy that coverage.”
Not sure it was disastrous when this happened with the ocare rollout.
Won’t work because an ‘entitlement’ which covers pre-existing conditions has been sold to the American public with Obamacare and several millions of folks are using huge amounts of dollars on healthcare under that entitlement.
No politician is going to vote to take it away from sick people. And no party that wants to remain viable will either.
What part of “This law supersedes all other laws, taxes, mandates, coverage requirements, regulations or prohibitions, state or federal” is hard to understand?
Really? Look at what has happened to the Democrat Party across America since 2010.
This is perfect~!
Just make the new law we want, AND KEEP obamacare.
Just let them try to say they are against it...
REMOVE ALL EXEMPTIONS TOO~!
Congress and the entire government HAS TO be in Obamacare, if they like it that much
Hi ctdonath2 —
I suppose that is the problem - I do understand that all LAWS (including federal criminal statutes and every statute on the books of all 50 states) are superseded. I think it’s a bit broad.
Wouldn’t it be simpler to merely state, “Any and all statutes and regulations enacted, or promulgated, under the Affordable Care Act is hereby repealed and held for not. Further, this repeal shall void all laws ab initio?”
We are on the same side, but I don’t think Coulter’s “solution” is what we need to get the job done. Where am I wrong?
All my best,
Gwjack
The argument is that it would not be revenue neutral and thus could not get through on reconciliation thus it would need democrat support to get to a vote.
I'm sure there's some truth in what you're saying but I don't see how the country has a choice if we ever want to make health care affordable again.
I think Ann's point is customer A should not be paying more for things he doesn't want or will never use. Let him just pay for a plan that covers what he wants. If customer B wants all that extra stuff they can get it and they can expect to pay more than customer A. Basic free market principles. Basically go back to what it was before the ACA and open up cross border insurance sales using the commerce clause as Ann states.
The pre-existing pool issue will need to be ironed out in some way and may need to be subsidized as much as most of us don't like that idea but as long as it comes out of the general fun and not from all the customer A's then it should work out if done right.
I don't have all the answers but I bet some sharper minds than ours does. Let the right people find and ask them just as long as they are nothing like the bozo's who came up with the ACA. Someone other than the GOPe types who brought up the disaster called AHCA.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a bingo !
Sheesh, you think Ann would know this.
What are you talking about with “all LAWS (including...) are superseded? What is broad about making it legal to sell health insurance?
Your solution and Ann’s are not mutually exclusive.They are in fact complementary. If O’care was repealed today, your solution, the private health insurance market would still be in complete disarray. While passing your law will not cure the health insurance market, Ann’s law will gradually destroy O’care.
Go Ann’s Law!
Congressman Andy Harris has said that the states should maintain the "high risk pool" for those with pre-existing conditions, subsidizing it so that the premiums are not exorbitant but can be higher than the general health insurance population. I didn't pay much attention to what Maryland had in place before Obamacare, but they did have that. They also had too many mandates, but that is another matter. It can be done with the high risk pool and state help.
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