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Originally Posted by Rakin
Destroy this monster of a Tax law and maybe Dems will come to the table.
Even easier, Republicans control Congress, repeal the law that prevents Medicare from negotiating prescription drug prices, that is if you're really concerned with containing healthcare costs and not just keeping BigPharma and its well funded lobbyists happy.
My point was insurance is to cover both preventive and catastrophic costs these days... that's why it can't just be seen as one or the other. Should it be that way? IDK, being healthy myself, I would be OK with catastrophic plans being out there again. But because they need healthy people to pay into the same risk pool as sick people (to keep costs lower for the sick people) that's why they had to take those options off the table. :/
Which is the point of my first post, they didn't have to go the route they did to try to control costs. If we would get off insurance and focus on drugs, hospitals, etc then we could get to real cost cutting.
Looks like a bunch of states are going to throw a monkey wrench into the Donald's MAGA healthcare plan! I guess it will go the way of Obama's Clean Air EOs.
Which is the point of my first post, they didn't have to go the route they did to try to control costs. If we would get off insurance and focus on drugs, hospitals, etc then we could get to real cost cutting.
I agree with that in theory, and I think any reasonable person would conclude that addressing the cost of care upstream would fix everything else downstream. But doing that is harder than actually tinkering with insurance... that's why they went down this route.
He tried. Several times. But Democrats blocked him again and again, with a unanimous vote of 48 Democrats (plus a few RINOs) voting NO.
Now he's doing what he has to, using the same methods his predecessor did: Executive Orders.
Don't like it? Call your Democrat senator and tell him to change his vote.
Gladly. As soon as the Republicans stop trying to push **** through congress and actually have conversations and include Democrats in the development of any bill. Given the ACA took months of discussion between both parties, anything the Republicans try to push through in days is beyond stupid.
Couldn't Trump just be truthful and say that he wants to destroy Obamacare because it's part of his campaign to eradicate everything Obama did? This line about it "not being legal for the government to make these payments" is just another lie from this regime.
Couldn't Trump just be truthful and say that he wants to destroy Obamacare because it's part of his campaign to eradicate everything Obama did? This line about it "not being legal for the government to make these payments" is just another lie from this regime.
not a lie from this adminstration, the FACT is that the subsidies were ruled ILLEGAL by a federal court because congress did not appropriate the subsidies, obama did that on his own by ILLEGAL executive order.
Wish they'd find a Bipartisan solution to such an important issue.
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