Guess he got a lot of blowback. Seriously though just discussing this so called bill will give a lot of people the impression it’s a done deal.
It’s unclear whether the funding would undermine the point of the penalty to encourage consumers into maintaining insurance, or whether it would incentivize insurers to charge the penalty in order to sop up the public funding.
No, it’s not unclear. The penalty doesn’t encourage consumers to maintain insurance. By nature, people don’t think of what could happen with their health. They’ll drop coverage and worry about a 30% hike in premiums when they’re sick at some future point. Most likely when they’ll be screwed out of the system. That’s how it goes.
The last bolded sentence doesn’t make any sense to me. Insurers don’t have to be incentivized to hike premiums by 30%.
It still lets red states deny insurance to those with pre-existing conditions. It is not even a guarantee that the risk care pools would even be funded by republicans. LOL.
Ever known a kid incapable of doing anything but kicking and breaking things that other kids make?
Ever know a guy who thinks he is an ace mechanic but always has 5 parts left over whenever he does a job and tells you they were apparently extras because he didn’t need them?
Ever known a person whose sole contribution to any conversation was to disparage what someone else said as obvious or uninformed (like our resident troll)?
The Republicans have for years made fun of any and all efforts to make the world better through government. They have this magical thinking that says whenever they dismantle something there is this god-like thing called the “free market” that will fix any problems they have created, sort of like an enabling parent. They are the embodiment of all things horrific in the American character from unfettered greed to white privilege on steroids. They are the servants of the new aristocracy (as are many Dems, unfortunately), and they currently have a virtual hegemony so we get to spend our days watching them stumble from disastrous destruction to another while we get to comment on it.
Today’s vow - I will not read the news or log on to TPM tomorrow for my own mental health.
What shade of lipstick will they apply to the pig this week?
Because telling your constituents you want to kill a few less of them, and do it a bit more slowly, is always a great vote-getter.
Once again, they have no clue how insurance works.
High risk pools don’t work, PERIOD.
Like the dog chasing the car, they have no idea what is going to happen when they catch it , the emerging shit storm that will be unleashed when millions of constituents realize their reps are trying to kill them should be a fascinating chapter in this sordid affair…
They’ve caught the car. Now, we’ll see if dogs can actually drive.
They work fine unless your goal is to actually get healthcare to people who need it.