Trump says ACA is a disaster…I get it now.
Across State Lines: The states with the least regulation and creates maximum profit
for insurance Companies will be the Store fronts for this Scam !
Trump University has a program for you too ??
Sad for the folks soon to lose insurance but also kind of ironic justice if they repeal ACA and a lot of insurance companies go out of business due to folks being unable to afford insurance.
My expectation has always been that Trump would deliberately destabilize the exchanges in order to create a favorable environment for Republicans to pass their healthcare plan. His first day executive order allowing for the possibility of eliminating the mandate fit that pattern.
If in fact the Republicans in Congress are making a good faith effort to stabilize the exchanges, I am all for it. It’s a first step in getting Republicans to fix Obamacare, not replace it.
Sadly, I don’t think this is going anywhere. The Republican Party has made Obamacare repeal an article of faith, and I do not see that changing. This also means Democrats have to be very careful in supporting it. We cannot ever, in any way, be put in a position of seeming to be complicit in the destruction of Obamacare.
The other big takeaway is that we have now established that Obamacare is not in a “death spiral”, and a few relatively simple fixes could stabilize the exchanges. This will become valuable later when Republicans argue that Obamacare was doomed to failure.
I won’t believe the GOP will stabilize the exchanges (though that would be laudable under the circumstances). Reason? It’ll cost money. No way this Congress would appropriate more “welfare” payments. Isn’t that what Rubio called them when he succeeded in the initial destabilization?
My guess is people like me who don’t get a subsidy and are in the 55-64 age bracket will be paying A LOT more. I already pay over $750. a month. We’ll probably get SOME sort of tax credit, which will bring it down a tiny bit, but it will still be much higher than it is now, and it will be unaffordable for many people.