Love this, eddy.
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I wonder if anyone will take up this plan and form these associations.
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I was thinking, when Trump signs an executive order that destroys something already doing some goodâlike EPA regs, then itâs effective in a bad way. When he âauthorizesâ other people to do something with hazy implementation or that wonât make business sense, then itâs an empty gesture. Which is why few of Trumpâs orders are anything but bogus âwinsâ.
All this fuss over proposed sabotage assumes that insurance companies are going to sit idly by and let their business be screwed up, when in reality they hire lobbyists to work intra-agency to blunt such assaults. IMO there will be a few things done for show by people who owe him,and itâll be time for the next big signing. Until heâs gone.
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That was my impression as well.
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Too bad he (not that he actually did any of the work on this) canât propose legitimate changes and tweaks that it really needs and would make it work better for folks.
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This might be true, but the âquietâ damage thatâs been done is undeniable: preventing new signups by failing to advertise or encourage them, cutting money for outreach or cutting enrollment, driving up premiums with defaulting on cost-share subsidies, and allowing the IRS to ignore any reporting about who is enrolled and if you paid a penalty on your tax return. Fast approaching 1,000 cuts, it seems.
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The Obamacare âdeath spiralâ theme has never appealed to me. Not all of the individual items you list have occurred⌠Maybe best to agree on getting rid of Trump and winning the election to reverse what damage has been doneâŚ
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Dumb fuck almost walked out w/o signing it
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âThis executive order is the start of a long process as the gears of the federal bureaucracy churn, not the final word,â
Translation = âYou wonât believe the never ending amount of bullshit this will createâ.
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And just like magic the existing rules and regulations disappear and courts will become clogged, just like what happened with his immigration âplanâ. âWeâll seeâ that Dummyâs executive orders were illegal to begin with. Another giant victory lap backward.
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A cry for help ???
Thanks, JB! Iâve been trying to help get it established a âcommon sense/conventional wisdomâ meme for some years now. As shown by many commenters and observers in the campaigns last year and since the election, the ideaâs becoming much more widely shared. I doubt that I have a strong claim on actually having originated it, but I think Iâve helped propel it slightly, anyway.
The main thing is thereâs just a lot of evidence to support it and, as with Frederick Douglass, it ââŚis being recognized more and more, I notice.â
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Good enough.
Uncertainty will damage the exchanges, because insurance companies will drop out if they donât know whether they will be paid the subsidies. Obamacare will suffer death by a thousand cuts.