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I say all Dems lay low and just go along with everything the Republicans want. If they want to privatize Medicare, good. If they want to get rid of medicaid, good.
My partner and I are covered by the best private insurance. We don't care what happens now. Let all the seniors who voted for Republicans deal with the changes.
Its all connected. Your private insurance company might not even exist if Medicare is privatized (in actuality, destroyed).
This is not speculation. Tom Price absolutely wants to phaseout Medicare and privatize it. Trump choosing him as HHS Secretary means Trump supports it.
Rep. Tom Price Reveals Republicans Eyeing Medicare Overhaul In 2017
Price, who is being floated as a possible Health and Human Services Secretary in the next administration, said that he expects Republican in the House to move on Medicare reforms "six to eight months" into the Trump administration.
Privatization of Medicare has been a central feature of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's budget proposal for years, and the House GOP has voted in favor of it multiple times. Ryan himself said last week that Medicare would be on the table in the new Congress, signaling it could be taken up early in the new year.
And I'm saying no way in hades will that happen because of AHIP and the billions upon billions invested in how it is. Plus they have released 0 technicalities so at this point it is, quite frankly, pandering.
I hope the social darwinist wing of the GOP push GOP hard to eliminate Medicare and SS. The social darwinists/libertarians are a small, small minority of the GOP voter base but very loud and obnoxious. The only "mandate" Trump got from voters after losing by more than 2.2m votes was to do something with immigration and maybe trade. He campaigned to keep Medicare and SS as it is. If the social darwinist wing push hard, it can create a substantial backlash.
Medicare cuts might be acceptable if they apply immediately to People of all ages, and Eliminate half of the payroll tax.
But they won't. It'll be another generational warfare deal. Where right-wingers will want to screw wage earners and boomers will want to screw millenials.
I say all Dems lay low and just go along with everything the Republicans want. If they want to privatize Medicare, good. If they want to get rid of medicaid, good.
My partner and I are covered by the best private insurance. We don't care what happens now. Let all the seniors who voted for Republicans deal with the changes.
Somehow, middle class and upper middle became convinced that the GOP has their interests at heart. Give em all the rope they need, I say. It is going to be a painful process, but eyes need to be opened to what the GOP is really about. While the majority of Americans are desirous of national health insurance, the GOP is hell bent on turning your wallet over to the insurance companies. It's the health of the insurers, not the insured, that they care about. The GOP has been trying to get rid of Medicare since it passed. Trump's pick for HHS suggests that they will now succeed. People looking forward to predictable care after retirement with Medicare can forget about that now.
As for your insurance, expect to be paying a hefty tax for that "best private insurance" in the coming years.
So Trump plans to announce Tom Price as HHS Secretary. Tom Price is an Obamacare foe and also wants to Conservative reform for Medicare.
Well, everyone knows Obamacare is a complete and utter failure, and you cannot argue otherwise. As for Medicare, as with any other government program, I'm sure it could use some 'reforms.'
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Tom Price seems to think the solution is tort reform, which is a joke since half the states already have tort reform and the insurance companies did not pass costs on to patients, they just kept the money.
Citation?
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Last week, Price said whatever Republicans do to replace Obama's health care law will bear a 'significant resemblance' to a 2015 measure that was vetoed by the president.
Of course. What would you expect? The eponymous law was his "signature" piece of legislation.
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That bill would have gutted some of the health care law's main features: Medicaid expansion, subsidies to help middle-class Americans buy private policies, the tax penalties for individuals who refused to get coverage and several taxes to support coverage expansion.
Obamacare is too expensive. People cannot afford the premiums, which went way up, instead of down, as Obama had said they would ($2,500/year for the average family, he said). With the ridiculously high premiums, and the extremely high deductibles, the insurance was worthless, unless you had a catastrophic health emergency. Young people would probably never reach the point where the insurance would 'kick in.' So, people are better off not buying the insurance, and paying the penalty, an injustice, to say the least. The Federal Government making citizens pay a penalty for not buying that which they cannot afford is one of the most un-American ideas ever to have been forced on the citizens of a supposedly free country.
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And the most predictable part:
Price said Republicans want to address 'the real cost drivers' of health care price spikes, which he said were not necessarily sicker patients, but a heavy regulatory burden, taxes and lawsuits against medical professionals.
Well, duh! Government regulations always drive prices up. When you have more regulations to comply with, specialists must be hired who can understand those regulations, and many other costs to comply are incurred. That is only logical. But liberals tend not to be able to think logically.
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Good luck with health coverage. It looks like they will try to keep pre-existing conditions and kids on policies, maybe they will let insurance companies put in spending caps and tort reform. Basically the only thing Trump will bring for health coverage is tort reform, pre-existing conditions and kids on policies.
And since Price is a big advocate of reforming Medicare, combine that with Paul Ryan and Medicare is definitely going to be changed. There's no way it won't be.
Pure speculation and baseless conjecture.
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