I predict it will pass. They will pressure reluctant GOP Senators to vote for it. They will rush it through. Dolt 45 will sign it. It will fail, people will lose coverage, pay more, and people will die.
Indeed. I think they hope to use this as a wedge to get California to change the law. Living in California, I can say that ain’t gonna happen.
And the Republican base will still praise them to the heavens.
The Republican base is like a flock of chickens kneeling before a statue of Colonel Sanders.
Who they’re about to be:
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‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.
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Or: “We tried to pass a bill that would replace Obamacare with something better, but they blocked us, and now (insert administrative/regulatory sabotage of Obamacare here) Obamacare is imploding, just like we said it would! So totally NOT OUR FAULT!”
Paul Ryan doesn’t understand how insurance works.
When Ryan rolls up his sleeves, a poor person gets fisted.
I’m not going to carry water for my party on stupid talking points. The bill they are trying to pass is garbage. Whether it’s garbage because the combination of ideology and campaign donors made it impossible to write a good bill or it’s garbage because they never really wanted a bill to pass, it’s a total failure of leadership.
However, ACA actually does have real problems and assuming no changes actually pass, it’s death will come from its poor design. The Democrats wrote a better bill than the Republicans, but that doesn’t mean it was a good bill.
According to a recent poll, 51% of Americans want ACA fixed and only 7% want it to stay as it is(the rest want repeal and replace or just repeal). So there’s a huge potential political win in fixing ACA, and there are ways to do that with conservative means. It’s time to find out how smart Paul Ryan actually is, because he should be thinking a move or two ahead.
Any lay person who managed to read that bill has my admiration. I only managed a few pages, so many were the referrals to previous bills changing this to that.
Oh, and I can’t forget to mention our Glorious Leader, who has completely left the drafting of this bill to Congress without even so much as setting real goals he expected to be met. Without Presidential leadership, bills will tend to be whatever campaign donors and ideological extremists want. President Obama did not submit a bill to Congress either, but he did set clear goals.
I think that a John Kasich or Jeb Bush would have made this effort work. Trump has no idea how to do this part of the job of President and Mike Pence isn’t any good at this either, being an ideological extremist himself.
Which would be what, perzackly? Have you forwarded a copy of the adaher Plan to the Powers That Think They Are? Because doesn’t seem to me that anything currently under consideration meets that criteria.
Fill in some substance, here. “…(T)here are ways to do that with conservative means…” is a mite thin.
(ellipses deployed because that’s how smart folks do it)
Golf claps for baby steps as **addy **stumbles away from the path of Political Error. He’s smart, we’re right, sooner or later, he’s ours.
(… for same reason as before…)
Come to the left side of The Force-We have cookies!
And Trump and his merry band of Trumpsters will promptly blame Obama and/or Democrats for the failure of the new law.
There’s no comprehensive health care bill that satisfies Republican ideology and the desires of Republican campaign donors, this is true, and always the big problem with repeal and replace.
But small changes to ACA can be done that are consistent with what Republicans can actually sell to their base:
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The individual mandate part of the bill is half baked, but can be formed into something that can work. Strict enrollment periods and continuous coverage can work better than an individual mandate, especially one as poorly enforced as the current one.
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The coverage requirements can be reduced. Why do certain things need to be free? that just increases the cost of premiums and co-pays for non-free services. That was a Democratic political decision, primarily to woo female voters. Undo it, insurance gets a little cheaper for everyone, luring more healthy people into the markets and giving them more choices.
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Changes to the way its funded. Democrats opened the door to Medicare “savings”. Republicans can kick that door open and cut Medicare more while eliminating many of the more odious taxes.
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Let people buy insurance from any state exchange they want. Yes, it’s the old “sell health insurance across state lines” thing, but it’s worth doing, and it now needs doing since some states have only one insurer now.
I’m not a lefty. That’s just not how I think. Parties, on the other hand, are malleable and I could see myself becoming a Democrat if the DLC wing returned to dominance. That’s simply a matter of numbers. If Reagan Democrats and disgruntled neocons move back to the Democrats, then that changes the party, and I’ll happily jump on that bandwagon if it comes rolling my way.
How then would you prevent every health insurance company from moving its headquarters to the state with the least amount of regulations? Isn’t this just inviting a race to the bottom, where every insurance plan in the country would be negatively effected and real choice would be eliminated since everyone will have to get insurance from whatever state is most profitable to the insurance companies? How do you prevent that from happening? Or is that actually the point?
This is a stupid article and it’s conclusion is wrong. Here it is quoting Ryan:
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Then further from the article:
No, it’s not. Not even close and this criticism is an utter failure. The key difference is the mandate - the make everyone buy part. All other insurance is not like that, people have a choice whether they want to buy it or not.
And here, I think they have a typo or something. Keeping bad drivers out of car insurance pools would make the insurance cheaper, not more expensive for the people remaining in the pool. It would make it more expensive for those forced out.