Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “I repeat…stop freaking out…all we’re going to do is change a couple of minor things with the ACA, including the name, and then pretend we enacted an entirely new plan so we can try to usurp the credit.”
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Q: How can you tell when Tom Price is lying?
A: He tells everyone they will get to keep their insurance coverage.
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Apparently, the GOP doesn’t consider insider trading to be a “pre-existing condition”.
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Great! Tell us all about it. How will it work, how much will it cost. I can’t wait,…
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I understand that Collins&Cassidy are preparing to introduce “The World’s Greatest” (I kid you not,) health care plan. It’s supposed to look something like this: http://www.goodmaninstitute.org/summary/
Highlights include: Removal of employer tax advantage, reduction in allowable HSA contribution. “Limited Benefit” insurance (caps of - for example - $35,000) that they envision being used by poor folks with limited assets, Insurance companies that specialize in particular ailments (say, cancer rather than heart disease). It looks like a consumer and provider nightmare.
And Rand Paul claims to have his own: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-puts-out-obamacare-replacement-plan/article/2611912
Highlights include: elimination of benefits, which would include any or all of the 10 essentials, but reading between the rhetoric appears to include much of the C&C stuff like ‘limited benefit’.
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nothing said about AFFORDABLE health care, we had health care before the ACA, it just became more and more and more expensive every year, that has slowed dramatically since the ACA was enacted. while I would prefer universal coverage for many reasons, I am grateful that the ACA has slowed the premium increase rate
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For the definition of “Affordable” see this: http://www.goodmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BA-104.pdf
So in shorter terms The Price is Wrong.
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The bottom line is that none of the Republican plans serve the greater good. They are married to an ideology that insists that the market will somehow present a better solution, which is nonsense. That’s why they haven’t come up with a plan in nearly 7 years. In order to have all the benefits of the ACA it is necessary for everyone be in the pool. Republicans thought that it was the responsible thing to do, when it was their plan. Either you fix the ACA, or institute Medicare for all.
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The orange sphincter anus mouth says: “Everyone gets to keep their healthcare. Our plan will be the best! Our doctors will be very very very very the best. In fact, all of our doctors will be graduates of the Trump University School of Very Very Very Very Good Medicine. This is the very very very very best school in the world. People tell me that all the time. They do medicine bigly. They have the best professors. In fact, my very own private doctor, the one who enabled me to be the very very very very healthiest president ever, will be dean of TU’s School of Very Very Very Very Good Medicine! Best of all, on your first appointment with these doctors, you’ll be able to buy a trump inauguration commemorative prophylactic - made of the very very very very best gold - at a +10% increase over its regular price!”
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Off topic but ---- here in TN they are STILL trying to fight marriage equality and “non”-traditional families. This year the means is a bill to define what/who is a “wife”, “husband”, “father”, and “mother”, etc, etc, etc.
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I am reminded of the announcements that corporations send out. “To serve you better, we are making the seats in our planes smaller and with less legroom, and giving you, the consumer, the choice of paying more for a better seat!!”
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I love that
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…it was “absolutely imperative” that people “be able to keep health coverage.”
You just couldn’t hear the end of that sentence…“so long as they pay for it themselves.” Price is just another “deplorable” Cabinet choice, and apparently not above taking money for votes. His medical license should be revoked.
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This. It’s been painfully obvious to everyone but the press. They’re not going to take people’s coverage away. They’re going to eliminate the subsidies, the mandate, community rating, and the ban on denial and rescission based on preexisting conditions and let the Invisible Hand do the dirty work. And then, of course, blame Obama.
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Also sprach Reichsdeputy Price:
“I think there’s been a lot of talk about individuals losing health coverage. That is not our goal nor is it our desire nor is it our plan, nor will it under any circumstance be the final outcome.” Price said at the hearing.
Well, Congresscritter Price consider the following:
- I don’t think there has been a lot of talk about individuals losing coverage, I know there has been a lot of talk about that.
- If that is not your goal or your plan, then what is your plan? What is its goal?
- “Nor will it be … the final outcome.” At long last a statement I think I agree with, but only because your colleagues in the House seem to be getting an earful whenever they dare to face us.
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You never run out of these gems it seems. Bright spots in otherwise dreary times.
Yeah, but irasdad is no Jeff Dunham.
