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If that is in rural areas, so be it, it's what they voted for. Trump supporters should live the results of their vote, that is what absolutely should happen. They should lose Medicaid coverage, they should lose pre-existing conditions, they should get insurance caps. It's what they voted for.
No longer enforceable under Obamacare but likely will be a part of any sort of Trumpcare if he plans to provide ins for all as he claims , even if a tax you pay . Any ins plan that tries to cover all people must have healthy people paying in and not using it to fund the sick people running up medical costs . Just like you have to have good drivers paying for ins they don't use to fund the ones having wrecks . Or be funded by a tax to replace those healthy people .
Just out of curiosity, who would pay for your medical bills in the case of a catastrophic illness that ran into the 100K to save your life ?
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I see where Trump signed something ordering others to continue to obey Obamacare laws, unless there's a hardship or something, in which case they can ignore some provisions.
But it does NOT actively change Obamacare in any way. It's just a msg to the public that the administration's goal is to ultimately replace Obamacare.
Unless the federal government owed you a refund the IRS had no way of actually collecting the ObamaCare fine, unless you voluntarily paid it. You probably would have still received a few nasty letters, but they couldn't levy your account or anything. It was flawed from the beginning, and Harry Reid sealed its fate when he forced it through the Senate, in spite of the fact that the blue state of Massachusetts elected republican Scott Brown. Americans did not want ObamaCare, as it was a major overreach, but they (Obama, Reid, & Pelosi) shoved it down our throats anyway. This is just a little retribution, courtesy of the deplorables and irredeemables! Choke on that, you career politicians with your elitist attitudes!
Catastrophic only existed in the past for people under 30 who are extremely healthy individuals. Let's do the math:
1-18 you're a child under your parents insurance. You don't pay.
18-29 you can buy catastrophic ins. 12 years total
30-64 that's 35 years, 3 times longer than the period you qualify for catastrophic
65-79 Medicare. The average American lives 15 years after their 65 birthday.
Not true.
In the free market, before Obamacare, ANYONE could buy any type of policy they wanted. If I wanted only a catastrophic policy, I could buy it, no matter my age.
Obamacare PROHIBITED certain groups of people from buying catastrophic plans.
However...and here's the trick of Obamacare...what was called a catastrophic plan before the ACA (high deductible, high OOP, and high lifetime allowance, low premium), was reclassified as a regular ins policy (high deductible, high OOP, unlimited lifetime allowance...super high premium).
Not allowing one to buy a catastrophic plan prevented people from getting a cheaper policy, and also to prevent embarrassment from people realizing that what would now be considered a catastrophic plan would indeed be: still expensive, and not worth much.
The fed was directly funding them previously. But with ACA that funding dropped, with ACA now making up the difference.
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