Posted on 06/25/2017 4:27:51 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
June 25th, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price; US Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Reps. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rand Paul, R-Ky.; White House adviser Kellyanne Conway (Still Laughing her Ossoff!).
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Price; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
There are two choices when it comes to a healthcare plan, bad and worse. If anyone believed it was possible to just drop Obamacare they were naïve or fooling themselves. The phrase repeal and replace is highlighted by replace since you cannot expect the GOP to go along with dropping millions of people off their forced healthcare. They will not qualify for a plan under insurance laws which existed before DeathCare, so will have no options if we started over and would not have coverage at any price or priced out of the market.
We have been notified next year our premiums are going to go up forty percent which means taking a serious look at dropping insurance all together. At this point what is the sense of paying over twenty thousand a year for insurance when it would bankrupt you anyway? This is the insanity of healthcare and it is not the insurance industry’s greed, it is the overregulation and lawyers sucking large settlements off of doctors and hospitals doing their jobs. There is no plan some egotistical politicians in DC are going to magically produce which will solve this crisis. The bottom line is America is trying to find a way to pay for the baby boomers entering old age and their increased hospitalization.
As one of the very few who claimed Trump would win both the nomination and election when he declared and an avid supporter, I am pleasantly surprised how he has governed. I supported him since he was the only person in America who could defeat Harpy and thought he would be a terrible President from a Conservative perspective. He grew up a liberal and it is in his DNA, but he has been a Yuge surprise as he has done more for America than the last four Presidents combined.
The right solution for HC is to repeal it and let the millions go without insurance when they find they do not qualify unless being on a group plan or are left to fend for themselves. These would be the victims of Obamacare even though it would be blamed on the heartless Trump. Heart in Moscow on the Potomac means spend more money for any given problem, but throwing people off would actually be the best solution and starting over.
These people would find solutions just as we would, we could set aside twenty thousand rather than pay the insurance company and take our chances and search out other alternatives to hospital care. Perhaps smaller clinics would sprout up with less care as well as less cost could find a place to develop or newer home care processes, but who says the giant hospitals with lawyer lines waiting out the doors are the answer? The problem is the invisible hand of the free market is not laid out like a fancy bill in DC where they can debate it and end up with a gruel nobody can stomach, but it takes time and creativity which Marxism lacks.
Nobody will go along with the correct solution which is shoot Obamacare dead, so now you are back to bad and worse. No matter what plan you devise it is going to be horrible, there are no other alternatives so take your half a loaf and go home and eat your gruel. This is a first step away from the Single Payer plan the Marxists wanted to write in the first place and revisit it in a couple years when you may have enough Conservatives to make the right choice and jump off that cliff into the real free market where you can allow competition and innovation solve these issues hitting the cool waters of freedom.
The plan developed by the Freedom Caucus is the best plan you are going to get out of the District of Corruption so pass it and move on to the real bill which is the budget. The Federal gummit has no business in HC so minimize the damage it can cause and move to cutting as much out of this monster as possible and then go to the next issue, such as the wall and stopping drugs and Mexicans from crossing our border and the bankrupting of Social Security and Medicare. There are so many massive problems in America most of which were caused by DC just like Obamacare, so if they would clear the deck of these two massive bills it would allow them time to try to make America free again.
There is a simple analysis of any bill before Congress which is, does this bill give Americans more freedom or less. Most bills give less such as Obamacare with its mandates and Death Panels. This bill gives more freedom by eliminating the mandate although likely leaves in the Death Panels which may be eliminated by Secretary Price. It does not allow Americans perfect freedom but it is a step towards more which is why it should pass and be supported in the spirit of Reagan’s half a loaf.
The Healthcare Bill is a bad bill which will be improved on by Cruz and Paul as well as the Freedom Caucus, but it will be hated by all as it should. Perhaps this hatred can be turned into repeal and true freedom for the American people down the road. President Trump has been a major surprise in his elimination of the shackles on this Country and really embracing the Tea Party philosophy pretty much in its entirety.
Trump should be given a pass on the replacement plan since he does not control Congress and can only get what RINOs in the Senate and House allow. They are who run DC and he only has the power of the veto which in most regards is an empty threat. So pass this bill and give as much time as you can, to the one bill that matters and the veto can be used which is the budget and move on. Obama and Pelosi ground one of the best systems in the world into a million pieces so do not expect the first attempt to hold water since with Health insurance you have two choices, bad and worse; so take bad.
Pray America woke
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Brilliant analysis bray..as always.
First time I understood this mess.!!
Thanks AB for your dedication and perseverance!
Thanks for the thread A.B. I see John Flippin Kasich will return, probably to gloat over GOP health care repeal going down. He has teamed with Ohio Senator Portman to bury the new plan. Kasich is running hard for 2020. We gotta keep Trump strong to stop the letter carrier’s spawn.
You’re absolutely right on this healthcare mess, Bray. Ryan and McConnell should have been preparing for what to do, but they were determined that Trump would lose. Even still they should have looked for a way to solve the HC mess as it was obviously going to implode.
Well, no Faux Snooze here. Audio, but total pixelated picture. The only channel doing it. The Russians!
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At this point unfortunately about all we can do with Healthcare this go along with whatever plan they come up with and then try and tweak it over the next eight years
morning everyone now on my 5th day of a 2000 mile road trip just finished breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee looking forward to a great thread here I’ll check in from time to time
Paul Ryan had eight years to get a handle on Healthcare he obviously wants no part of it he’s being told by the cabal the Deep State what to do every step of the way
Awesome!
What’s your itinerary look like?
Maybe you could visit with some thread regulars?
And, when the 23-YO's go to see a doctor for a cold or sprain, they can get market pricing from the provider instead of, "How Much Do I Have To Charge To Pay The Overhead To Process An Insurance Claim?" pricing. Sort of like a free-market.
You know, I’ll give them a bye based on the Senate being in Harry Reid’s clutches for 6 years, and then on the 99.999 percent chance Obama would veto it and then the House not having a 2/3rds majority to over ride it.
But now; no excuses!!!
Pass it, Trump WILL sign it.
Just do it or resign.
Enjoy your road trip! A camper?
Rand Paul is on This Week with Steponallofus.
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