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The one way that the ObamaCare mandate got past the Supreme Court... which was by making it a tax... was the vehicle for the mandate's undoing in the tax bill.
“Using a tax bill to abolish the individual mandate amounts to a backdoor way of sabotaging Obamacare,” writes John Cassidy.
“Republicans, and Donald Trump, have counted on that (as well as your limited outrage bandwidth) in slipping an Affordable Care Act mandate repeal inside their insidious tax bill,” writes Bridget Read.
All this howling is due to how the GOP-controlled Senate used a tax bill to repeal a health bill. The implication is that this is something shady and duplicitous, like an exercise in false pretense. Actually, there is absolutely nothing shady about the repeal of the Obamacare mandate. There is no back door here. No bait and switch. Obamacare’s much-despised individual mandate is, in fact, a tax. It is properly dealt with in a tax bill.
I support UHC for the country and I support abolishing this for much the same reason. Those who can not afford the high cost of health insurance also can not afford this tax.
The irony is also notable. Obama says it is not a tax. The Supreme Court has to rule it was a tax to uphold the entire thing. Now it gets shot down because it was a tax.
Why we couldn't have simply done the right thing from the beginning is sad. Now it's all going to crash and it's going to take years to get someone that people trust to try and do the right thing and that is exactly what I said would happen when Obamacare passed.
I support UHC for the country and I support abolishing this for much the same reason. Those who can not afford the high cost of health insurance also can not afford this tax.
The irony is also notable. Obama says it is not a tax. The Supreme Court has to rule it was a tax to uphold the entire thing. Now it gets shot down because it was a tax.
Why we couldn't have simply done the right thing from the beginning is sad. Now it's all going to crash and it's going to take years to get someone that people trust to try and do the right thing and that is exactly what I said would happen when Obamacare passed.
You couldn't make up that whole "tax/not a tax" scenario if you tried. What a mess.
UHC does not have the support to be an upfront legislative program. They had to try and create the whole trojan horse ObamaCare legislation to funnel everyone to single payer.
Yeah I thought the mandate was unconstitutional. But still do not support gutting/sabotaging the ACA piecemeal. Only making things worse for the middle class in the process. Put together a damn plan that they think will work and pass that through the regular process. Not this reconciliation nonsense.
I support UHC for the country and I support abolishing this for much the same reason. Those who can not afford the high cost of health insurance also can not afford this tax.
The Mandate was directed towards the relatively cheap, young and healthy risks. Unaffordable relates to our typical Obamacare policy owner, who will of course have to pay even more sans Mandate.
I've never been a fan of the Mandate, having people buy something they don't want. It's not like Military Draft. That being said, the insurance industry told us they needed this to make Obamacare work. I still believe them. Time will soon tell.
You couldn't make up that whole "tax/not a tax" scenario if you tried. What a mess.
UHC does not have the support to be an upfront legislative program. They had to try and create the whole trojan horse ObamaCare legislation to funnel everyone to single payer.
No they didn't and they had the support. They had the White House and large majorities in both houses. We got what we got not because the support wasn't there but because they were afraid to lose the donations of the pharmaceutical and inurance industries.
In the end, all the money in the world couldn't buy them the election to try and save this mess.
No they didn't and they had the support. They had the White House and large majorities in both houses. We got what we got not because the support wasn't there but because they were afraid to lose the donations of the pharmaceutical and inurance industries.
In the end, all the money in the world couldn't buy them the election to try and save this mess.
I can't argue with that. The public support was not there (disapproval was continuously over 70%). The congressional support was there.
And WHERE's the ACA's much better replacement the Liar in Chief told us we'd have immediately after he took office?
You sure are sour grapes! Sounds like somebody needs to find their binky and set up their adult coloring book station.
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