Well that should get all the insurance companies to the table. /s
Death by a thousand cuts.
By the time they are done, they’ll have nothing left, but paper cuttings on the floor of the House.
Enough shreds, Dems can use as confetti to toss into the R’s smug faces when this abomination finally goes down.
The whole gang supporting this mess was on every cable news station and the Sunday network chats just a few days ago complaining about folks who were gaming the system by not having continuous coverage.
What happened to that whining talking point? Is that not still an ObamaCare fail?
Expediency.
WOW! So we don’t have to worry about 1000x increases AND the surcharge now. Whew! Thanks, Paul!
Insurance companies death spiral Single payer here we come
SO. MUCH. FAIL.
So what do they replace it with? They nix the individual mandate, continuous coverage doesn’t work and people hate it. Auto-enrolling young people and taking it out of their taxes makes the most sense, but that’s probably a tough sell to the “Freedom to die in a ditch” crowd.
Single payer? In your dreams as long as they have the majority.
We tried to get single payer when the Democrats had the majority and passed the ACA. We didn’t have the votes. Where does this continuing daydream come from?
Bernie couldn’t get it passed in Vermont for god’s sake.
This was the only provision that had even the slightest chance of reducing slightly the loss of people covered. #sad…
Actually auto-enrolling with the option to opt out is what the ACA should have had all along. That very idea has been done with 401(k) plans and dramatically increases enrollment. There is sound science in the behavioral economics behind such an idea.
because you can’t kick enough people out of the insurance pool the way it is now?
upside is the deficit reduction will leave more for tax breaks and starting a new unpaid for war…
The continuous coverage clause will be replaced by this one:
“It would be nice if people would buy insurance.”
Jesus christ it would be irresponsible to protect preexisting conditions without a mandate or backdoor mandate
This might even turn the insurance company CEOs against it. I can see it now “Mabel call the congressman we paid for and tell him to vote against this, no way am I letting this interfere with my bonus.”
So that’s supposed to be a deterrent to the GOP?
I don’t think so.
How mad are these guys about the “paid protesters” that George Soros sent after them at their town halls? Why, enough to abuse their power with more partisan political witch hunts based on conspiracy theories…
You can’t have guaranteed issue without a mandate (or a mandate-like penalty for dropping coverage). Insurance just doesn’t - and can’t - work that way. It’s almost like nobody in the GOP understands the first damn thing about how insurance works. But that can’t be true since they had 2 years to fine-tune the ACA and then 7 years of studying how to replace it, right? RIGHT?!?