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Very difficult to handicap. A complete repeal without a replacement is politically risky, and unlikely because it requires 60 Senate votes. Most think the GOP will urge Trump to use Executive Orders to defund parts of it. Mostly the subsidies. Its uncharted waters, even for,experts in the Health Care Industry. Best of luck
Whether one liked Obamacare or not, we have to do something drastic to fix healthcare in this country. Whether health care is a constitutional right or not, if we cannot provide medical care to all Americans, then I would hesitate to call us a true first world country.
What needs to happen (and what admittedly did not happen under President Obama) is that Republicans and Democrats need to sit down together, act like adults, and pound out some real solutions.
Very difficult to handicap. A complete repeal without a replacement is politically risky, and unlikely because it requires 60 Senate votes. Most think the GOP will urge Trump to use Executive Orders to defund parts of it. Mostly the subsidies. Its uncharted waters, even for,experts in the Health Care Industry. Best of luck
Do you think the 30 hour cap will be one of the first things on the block or is that not how it will go down?
Just getting rid of it, won't solve anything and would create a ton of confusion. For the record, I wish it didn't exist, but it does. Car Insurance companies found a way to profit and insure cars. Home insurance companies found a way to profit and insure homes. There should be a way for health insurance to do the same. Part of that needs to allow them to price in risk, but part of it also needs to be keeping other costs down so that it can be affordable across the board. Multiple claims for cars and homes increase your costs, why is medical any different?
Drug companies need to be able to profit and earn a reasonable reward for the risk they take with drug creation, but maybe whether or not they are prescribed should be about the Drs and not the ads that people use to suddenly self-diagnose.
You get unemployment for a time and maybe subsidies for a time, but at some point, you need to stand on your own two feet. And certainly, if you are not an American Citizen you shouldn't have access to subsidized care.
Malpractice and lawsuits would have to be looked at. The cost of the education would have to be looked at. It is so complex and unfortunately many parties involved that want to make a profit.
Whether one liked Obamacare or not, we have to do something drastic to fix healthcare in this country. Whether health care is a constitutional right or not, if we cannot provide medical care to all Americans, then I would hesitate to call us a true first world country.
What needs to happen (and what admittedly did not happen under President Obama) is that Republicans and Democrats need to sit down together, act like adults, and pound out some real solutions.
Could not agree more. Obamacare is clearly broken, but our healthcare system was even before Obamacare, and repealing it without replacing it with something viable is not an option - millions would lose their healthcare coverage, and we cannot go back to insurance companies denying those with pre-existing conditions. Let's hope Trump and the Republican members of Congress see it this way too. Trump's plan of simply encouraging more competition across state lines is not a plan that would be sufficient, especially when it comes to pre-existing conditions.
Echoing many above here.. Hopefully it's not a repeal without a replacement plan ready to go.
Just wiping it off the books does no good. It's a flawed system. But, it has good parts in it. The theory goes that the parts that people want to keep, the insurance companies will continue to offer.. Extended coverage for 'kids' to age 25, preventative screenings, etc..
Preventative stuff is something the insurance companies SHOULD want to keep.. They pay $200 for Blood Pressure medication a year that prevents them paying $30k when someone has a massive heart attack.. that friggin' makes sense.
It is going away, but Trump and company seem to have something else in mind to replace it.
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