They are desperate to pass anything just so they can say they did.
So, this would allow individual states to gradually gut the ACA in the hugely unpopular ways that people were at those town halls screaming about the last two weeks?
All that destruction is okay now if they let individual states do it a little at a time?
I don’t thinnnnk so.
Par for the course …
Has this thing been scored by the CBO? How many people will lose health insurance as a result of this new bill. That is a hell of a thing to take to your voters isn’t it. I can see Republicans at town hall meetings. “I repealed the ACA and 24 million lost health insurance.”
This thing is a complete rube goldberg dog’s breakfast. And the really sad thing is that the GOP has debased governing to the point were few people actually care about the details of the bill. We know it’s going to be crap design to kill poorer citizens and funnel money to the top fraction of a percent. And the coverage isn’t about those details anyway, it’s about the power struggle between the bad-cop republicans and the psychopathic spree-killer cop republicans. This just happens to be the turf that their conflict is currently being played out on.
Meanwhile, one of the things that’s interesting in the face of a real assault on the lives of millions of people, is that none of the usual crazies seems appears to have given even a peep about second amendment remedies.
“House GOP Swears Its Near An O’Care Repeal Deal.”
If by this it means that intense behind the scenes in-fighting between warring Republican factions is about to go public and doom it (Again!) then, yes, a deal is near.
And this was before the press found the provision that members of Congress and their staff could keep all the benefits of Obamacare. Looks like another clustertrump over healthcare is in the works.
It eliminates the cost sharing subsidies…better, and cheaper they say…there screwing over about 10 million folks and shifting regulation to the states…who have no resources to do so…not to mention tanking the insurance industry…tough love…trump rural - poor voters…
House Speaker Paul Ryan said the spending bill to keep the federal government running won’t include funding for Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies.
“CSRs, we’re not doing that," Ryan said Wednesday, referring to the subsidy program that helps reduce out-of-pocket health costs for low-income Obamacare customers.
The proposal also stipulates that those who maintain continuous coverage would not be subject to that kind of underwriting.
Back in the Olden Days, people had jobs which they kept for life. It was common to work for a company from beginning to end. That is no longer true. Many people work “contract” jobs that cover employment for a single project. You might get hired for the next project, or you might not. They might re-hire you for the project after that, or not. Project typically last 6 months to, maybe, a couple of years. Layoff periods are the norm. There is no way under those conditions to maintain continuous coverage. It’s always a scramble to find family coverage for the interim until the next job shows up. If one or more family members has a pre-existing conditon, well, good luck under the R’s new plan. Dying is always cheaper, yes?
Republican motto: “Hurry up and die already.”
The irony is red states would be the most likely to apply for a waiver and let insurance companies charge more for people with pre-existing conditions. This will hurt the very people who voted for Trump.
How exciting ! Will they make it before the 100th ?
@bdtex I can hear the “golf clap” from here. Who knew it was an STD? lol
So GOP “moderates” are enticed by a bill that will allow states to waive the ban on charging people more for pre-existing conditions? (While still throwing 14 million off Medicaid.) That’s even more extreme than what they had before. I really don’t understand how they think this could work.
These changes won’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the average GOP Congressperson has no way to understand them to misrepresent to their even dumber constituents. I see another big FAIL!
Best news for Jon Ossoff is the GOP’s constant f’ing with the bill. He can run against the GOP Congress & Handel and depress GOP turnout. This will help in the MT seat as well. These guys keep fucking with people’s health care and the entire health services industry. There will be payback.
Although that no longer is a good marketing strategy. People seem to like OCare more and oppose those who want to kill it.
“ability opt out of regs to lower prices.”
I’m guessing this means we are still working on the bogus pursuit of low insurance premiums without regard to how little healthcare those premiums actually deliver.
Paul Ryan’s guiding principle:
“What would Ayn Rand do?”
Wow. And holy cow, the GOP finally did it. They got close to creating a repeal and replace bill. Now the citizens just need to sit back and wonder why we should believe a bunch of people who have said this for six years. Yep … they are close alright. To what, is the question.