I do not understand the block grant proposal much. If they are trying to save money than maybe but that does not really do anything to ensure more have coverage or make anything more affordable. It really just lets states decide who they get to leave off and for what reason, and most likely pocket some of the money for other things as they are saving so much.
Why The GOP Candidates Are Tied In Knots Over Replacing Obamacare.
No, theyâre not.
Because they wonât replace it. Ever.
And they truly donât care.
Further, they wish youâd just stop asking about it.
Because youâre really screwing with their fundraising off Obama-scare.
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Youâre on your own. Thatâs the GOP plan; past, now, and forever.
" MSNBCâs Morning Joe Friday"
I find that oddly appealing.
âJust the facts, mâam.â
Nah. They make it somewhat worse first such as screwing around with the contraceptive mandate or making the minimum requirements for plans weaker.
It is true that the basic concept is either too popular or not much different in certain ways as past plans from the Right. A major Democratic addition was Medicaid expansion but the Supreme Court made that voluntary. Republicans might want to take even that out since it is embarrassing so many Republican states are still choosing it.
And none of them understand health care, insurance, tax policy, or governance in generalâŚ
The main purpose to block grants is to hand money to the states to do whatever they want. Well governed states will use the money for the purpose it was intended. The Republican governed states will find a way to siphon off as much of the money as possible to croneys.
Of course, we all know the Republican Partyâs position on health care reform:
Phase 1 â kill the current legislation.
Phase 2 â Status quo. Do nothing.
The Congressional Republican version of health care insurance reform continues to be the equivalent of vaporware. Long on nebulous generalizations laden with party ideology, short on substance and specifics.
Even so, the GOPâs plan is better ⌠if you never get sick or injured, if you are extremely wealthy, or if you have a major financial stake in the private health insurance industry.
The candidates all have excellent health plansâŚwhat? me worry?
ââŚan⌠idea that has been blocked by conservative sinâŚâ
One of the rare times the absence of good editing actually improves the sentence!
LD
The right wing of the GOP (I now, I repeat myself) has already written Paul Ryan off as an apostate. The GOP retreat in Baltimore is, according to Ryan per Fox News, dealing primarily with the repealing of Obamacare and restoring the Constitution, whatever that means. Ryan said on Fox that he does not expect to accomplish much this year. Ryan says he canât get anything done unless his party has control of the White House and both Houses of Congress. boo hoo.
Presidents Obama and Clinton, by contrast, got most of their agendas through Republican Congresses. This last year was, in spite of the opposition of the Tea Party and Freedom Caucus and GOP leadership, a near slam dunk for Obama. The Iran Agreement, the steady fall of ISISâ leadership and infrastructure, the passing of the omnibus budget bill, and now the freeing of the American prisoners in Iran all point to a guy who gets his way.
Ryan should start emulating Obama and stop bashing him. Obama may be the only friend Ryan has this year.
How about that plan the Heritage Foundation came up with in 1989? The one that Republicans insisted was the only one they could ever possibly support? Why donât we go with that one?
Oh. Thatâs right. We did go with that one. Itâs the one they derisively call âObamacare.â
Iâll bet Trump has something. The best possible something, because heâs an expert in health care. His military prep school education was the equivalent of a medical degree from Johns Hopkins and a residency at the best hospital in the United States. Heâs also an expert in insurance.
The day will come when they really regret calling it Obamacare. They should be grateful that they didnât do it earlier, or our seniors might be getting their healthcare from Johnsoncare and theyâre monthly stipend from Roosevelt Retirement.
Sometimes, these things come back to bite you in the ass.
Ach, beat me to it â I was just about to post that. The old three-legged stool: a short and sweet explanation of why the ACA is structured the way it is, and why itâs pretty much impossible (short of single-payer) to come up with anything else that would accomplish what the ACA does. Recommended to all.
Once they allow the big insurers to have their way with us, that is.
How about this ---- Repeal all of the ACA except the part that requires members of Congress to get their coverage through the ACA. Put them into the resulting chaos everybody else will be facing and weâll see if theyâre still in favor of repeal.
Basically everything wrong with the ACA is an error on the side of too conservative. Right now, Republicans are busy one-upping each other to be the most conservative turd in the septic. They wonât start polishing the turd for another 3 months, at least.
They have the perfect excuse, best stated by Chuck Todd back in 2013 when he said,
âfolks shouldnât expect mediaâ to do what the White House has failed to do in its rollout of the health care law. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chuck-todd-it-s-not-media-s-job-to-correct-gop-s-obamacare-falsehoods-video
Or as I posted a few days ago,
Epitaph on the headstone of journalism: It wasnât our place to ask
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