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We've talked about this. GOP couldn't come up with a healthcare plan that didn't devastate coverage for millions (because they have no good ideas on it after 8 years of complaining), so they couldn't shove their plans through. Which is pathetic; this should have been easy since cons had a better part of a decade to prepare and control of the government.
So the obvious strategy is to sabotage Obamacare to the point of submission, where the crappy GOP alternatives can finally be shoved through.
That process just shifted to another gear with the tax reform that will become law. With individual mandate gone, a lot of healthy people will exit the markets and sick will stay. Premiums have been going up, but they will skyrocket now and many will lose coverage. This will ensure market collapse, as designed.
So conservatives, congratulations - your Obamacare repeal is assured now! I know you are happy. In a year or so, your healthcare-limiting proposals will become law.
Strap me in and let's go! I am ready to go back to the days where tens of millions have no health Insurance, where you can skip healthcare if you lose your job, where insurance companies will drop you if you need care the most, where health insurance costs are a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. And continued premium rises anyway (because let's be honest, those were always going up even before O-Care). Looking forward to it!
What is going to happen? Probably very little. People who bought individual policies did so mostly because they need them or want the financial peace of mind that having it brings. The mandate was more of a farce than anything with weak penalties that were easily avoided. So I am pretty certain that people are going to continue to buy their policies and collect their government subsidies for doing so. In other words, the 380 billion that the GOP figures it saves by letting people go without will never be realized and the tax package will put an even larger dent in the debt picture than it would otherwise.
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