as always⌠be careful what you wish for⌠the gods can punish you by granting your wishâŚ
Do you live in a state with a Republican governor? Lobby him or her to oppose repeal of ACA. Get your neighbors to speak up. Demonstrate at the state capitol. Governors (and state legislators) are much more vulnerable to public pressure than members of Congress, and when the governor calls, the members pick up the phone.
Keep the Federal government out of our Medicaid expansion?
Only after Congress abolishes all of its own Cadillac benefits plans does any of these cuts have any moral standing, credibility or likelihood of âsuccessâ (sic), which means NONE.
Fuck 'em. At some point people have to stop voting Republican or weâre all doomed. Maybe this will get their attention, although I doubt it.
Members of Congress and their staffs are covered by Obamacare. If Obamacare is repealed, they are put into the individual marketplace, just like all other people covered by the law. So itâs not that they have Cadillac coverage now, itâs that they might exclude themselves from the Obamacare repeal.
Trump: There is no worry at all. I will keep all the good parts of it and label it TrumpCare. It will be for only those who voted for me.
Iâm still expecting their ârepeal and replaceâ to be:
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Shuffle some verbiage around and make some minor and probably necessary changes to the ACA while leaving all or most key components intact.
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Full PR blitz that a too-feckless-to-tell-the-truth media will run with that Republicans have fully repealed and replaced Obamacare with Trumpcare and itâs the best most incredible thing ever.
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The people who complained the most and loudest about how crushing Obamacare was will praise the new law despite seeing almost zero effect on their own healthcare expenditures.
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- Full repeal and the economy burns as people die or go bankrupt.
People in red states voted for Trump.
They voted for death; let them have it.
Get your âfreeâ healthcare here ! Come one, come all! Letâs load up the Medicaid rolls so we get the largest number of people we can dependent on government largesse. If we combine Medicaid with EBT, SNAP, and the âearnedâ income credit, we can dominate the vote of people that have never worked a day in their lives. Also, weâll scoop up the millions who get paid in cash so they qualify due to no reportable income. All we have to do is keep it more rewarding to get government benefits than working at one of those fast food jobs. Hey, we better rethink that minimum wage increase. Iâm not sure thatâs in our best interest.
OK, Paul Ryan, g back to you lair. Health care should not be a privilege in this country.
That ânever worked a day in their livesâ gives you away as the ignorant misanthrope that you are.
goodâŚmaybe this will wake up the idiots who only vote republicanâŚbut i doubt itâŚto bad democrat voters will also be harmedâŚbutâŚin montana they are fewâŚmaybe the real reason we see some warnings is they cant just drop democrats out of the systemâŚlike they do with voter fraud.
Love your screen name. You sure appear to believe in âpeace on earth.â
I am the face of the American Healthcare Act. I started a single person consultancy in 1993. Every single year after that my independent health insurance costs went up by 15%-20%. Every year I spent two to three months researching and finding lower insurance rates. Each year, that insurance covered less while my deductibles rose. I worried constantly that my coverage wouldnât be there when I needed it even though I had been continuously covered by insurance since I became self-supporting at age 16. I am now 54 years old.
What makes no sense is people who believe we had a system that worked before. It didnât. It was about to slam most people in this country into bankruptcy. Most families were just 1 illness away from being ruined, even when they had worked hard all of their lives and paid for insurance for years.
The ACA is an entirely conservative ideaâthat was our compromise, that we had to do something and we would do it the conservative way. It was never expected that the conservatives would disavow their own plan just because they were bad losers and wanted to harm Obama rather than help the country. And they were just rewarded for the desire to ruin Obama even though it was their policies which had left the country in such a bad place.
There werenât many other options. To continue on the path were were on would have been ruinous for America and her people.
The authors of exchanges portion, guys like blue dog Max Baccus, the INTENT was that all 50 states would receive the same treatment. It was never expected that the states would refuse to build their exchanges.
That people want to get this rid of this law fail to remember that when this law was enacted, more than 50,000 people PER WEEK were losing insurance. Insurance companies were allowed to summarily kick-anyone off at anytime. If you had any illness you might never be able to get insurance. Between 2000 and 2010 the number of people insured through their employers dropped over 10% from just over 61% to just over 51%. At the height of the financial crisis 50% of bankruptcies and 60% foreclosures were due to inability to pay for necessary medical care. 80% of those forced into bankruptcy for this reason had health insurance. A vast majority of them worked as well. We paid more than double than any other developed nation for the privilege of having more than 1 out of every 5 people uninsured or underinsured. And 45,000 people per year died due to lack of access to affordable care. Mind you, less than 8% of that many Americans died on 9/11 and we have determined that we can spend unlimited money fighting this "threat.â
The American Healthcare Act isnât just for the âpoor.â Itâs for pretty much EVERYONE who needs healthcare. It isnât a matter of âifâ you need healthcare, instead if it a matter of âwhen.â I have paid into insurance all my adult life. I have three children 27, 23 and 23. All gainfully employed, 1 still in college. In the past five years one of my children has been diagnosed with both cancer and Crohnâs Disease. In the past year without the ACA he would most likely not have survived while also being deeply in debt. The youngest just had a cooking accident and got 2nd degree burns all over his hands and legs and needed emergency care in and follow up visits in burn unit. Because of the ACA they all actually got the care for which weâve been paying all of these years. My husband was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease three years ago and just 3 weeks ago Alzheimers. He too is able to get the care he receives (although yes, we play $1,200 a month for that coverage. My middle child has been suffering from depression but because of the ACAâs mental health provisions instead of killing himself he got the care he needed and will graduate from Brown University this spring.
Thankfully, because of the ACA, I was able to grow my business (not in healthcare). I now provide my six employees and their families healthcare as part of their benefits package. I am proud to be able to do this. They deserve to have peace of mind. Itâs made a huge difference in their lives.
We are a âhardworkingâ American family. Why do so many of you believe that insurance companies may cancel our insurance coverage at any moment? Why has this always been framed as helping the âless well off.â Virtually EVERYONE needs access to affordable healthcare. It will on average seem like you are paying more into when you are young but you will end up using that back as you age. Thatâs the nature of a large shared risk pool. Will all of us need $300,000 or $3,000,000 in health care coverage? No. But most of us will need all sorts of different types of access by the time we age.
you realize itâs a troll and it really meant to make the screen name pizzaonearth
medicare for all is the only answer and obama let the country downâŚbut not even considering it.
the idea that insurance companies profits must be part of the cure is revolting.
i am in sympathy for your families sufferingâŚbut the point is NO ONE should have to worry about getting the care your family neededâŚ
medicare would have provided itâŚand once the people experienced its coverageâŚthe chances of repeal would have been ZERO.
maybe you are not seeing the fact thatâŚit is the MONEY that will be leaving that will kill off the planâŚyou cant just talk and shuffle things around without the cash.
Rick Scott and his ilk are not vulnerable to public pressure.
You arenât saying anything here. Did you read the article?
Rubbish. No way Medicare for all would have passed congress. Even some conservative Democrats were against it. Senator Lieberman, for instance.
Yes, it was the right solution, but blaming Obama is inane. Whatâs your game?