Brilliant, GOPe! Force people to buy health insurance when they don’t want to—and then don’t allow them to buy health insurance when they want it!
God help us! If only Trump would have a clue on this and take the lead. I am afraid his billionaire experience just lleads him to want to demonstrate “heart” and not understand how very important the free market dynamics are here.
Any "free market dynamics" incorporated into the final version of this bill will be due to the influence of the House Freedom Caucus, and Senators like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
President Trump is not the Legislature, and he can only sign what 51 senators and 218 house members pass. If Congress passed a conservative health care bill, I have no doubt that the President would sign it.
The bottom line is that we have to trust the HFC—and a couple of conservative GOP Senators—to hold out for whatever positive provisions can be included.
There's no doubt that—even with the votes of the HFC, and Senators Cruz and Paul—that whatever passes as this "first step" will never satisfy the ideological "purists". Until we elect more courageous, Patriotic voices to Congress, President Trump is forced to deal with that body as it's currently constructed.
This Revolution isn't going to be completed merely with the election of a populist/conservative President. There must also be changes in the Congress, starting in 2018 and moving forward. It was the height of naiveté to imagine otherwise...
I don’t believe this is correct.
1. The government is forcing you to buy insurance:
I’m pretty sure the individual mandate is repealed in the Republican version so no one is being forced to purchase insurance.
2. The government is not allowing someone to buy insurance when they need it:
The purpose for having insurance is so that it is already in place when it’s needed. It is not reasonable to expect an insurance company to have to cover someone who waits until they are sick before they purchase coverage—no company could stay in business that way.
A six-month waiting period is more than reasonable. But, if an insurance company chooses, I’m sure they can cover whomever they want. This provision just allows them to impose the waiting period if they see the need.
Of course, it would be best if the government got out of the way completely. But unfortunately, everyone who voted for Obama or stayed home and didn’t vote at all brought on a “fundamental change” in America that is difficult to undo in the present political environment.
I wish we could go back to the way things were pre-2010, but that is unrealistic—that horse left the barn a long time ago!
The GOP proposal removes the existing requirement for people to buy insurance they don’t want.