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The law is problematic but there are reasons the requirement was there. When the insurance industry and conservative leaders were looking for a way to prevent socialized medicine they came up with the mandate. It was presented by Newt back in 93. Its long been thought of as the only way to insure everyone without single payer.
Same here. It doesn't matter if Newt believed in it. Obama put it into law.
Since seniors overwhelming vote republican, there would be a huge revolt by them. I don't thing it will be changed because of the backlash republicans would get. They just may be voted out. Don't underestimate the seniors
This right here really isn't that hard to understand. But then again, we had post after post after post from people not being able to understand how a Trump could win.
I don't think Paul Ryan would have got this far with it if he hadn't found a way to get it passed with a Republican president. That means also finding a few insurers that will at least pretend in the beginning.
What would be far more effective than a mandate would be to make medical debt non-dischargeable via Bankruptcy Court, with the IRS used to collect, just as they do with student loan debt.
What would be far more effective than a mandate would be to make medical debt non-dischargeable via Bankruptcy Court, with the IRS used to collect, just as they do with student loan debt.
Why should medical debt be placed above other debt?
So Trump plans to announce Tom Price as HHS Secretary. Tom Price is an Obamacare foe and also wants to Conservative reform for Medicare.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Turns out, Price supports insurance companies selling bare-bones plans and, in some cases, denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. He recently said he expects Republicans to move forward with legislation to privatize Medicare out of existence as early as next summer.
I find it highly amusing that the Trump supporters are the ones that will be hit the hardest by such changes. No matter how much yowling they do about how much better we would be in a privatized system - most of them are TOTALLY dependent on Medicare to have any chance at a reasonably safe retirement. It will be an equal opportunity screwing of the American populace, both Trump supporters and non-supporters - by big insurance, big pharma, and big medicine.
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