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#271336 by Badstrat
Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:15 pm
It is probably the best kept secret in Washington that has evaded scrutiny even from conservatives in recent weeks: Unless something changes, Republican leaders have no intention of repealing Obamacare.

They are merely repealing most (but not necessarily all) of the funding mechanisms of Obamacare. Worse, they plan to use the savings from the repeal of those subsidies to create an Obamacare-lite replacement plan, which will likely be enacted on top of retaining the worst aspects of Obamacare itself.

The problem is that they plan to repeal only the taxes, subsidies, and Medicaid expansion, but will retain every page of the insurance coverage regulations that are responsible for making insurance actuarially insolvent and depressing the job market. Thus, we are confronted with the worst of both worlds in which the public perception is that Obamacare will be repealed, but the worst aspects — the aspects of the leviathan that are solely responsible for unaffordable premiums and the lack of choice in the market place — will be preserved.
Welcome obamacare 2.0
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#271374 by ANGELSSHOTGUN
Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:49 pm
Actually Slacker... Everyone is wrong. Everyone has missed the point. Everyone has gone crazy. Welcome to socialism gone wild.

Insurance laws were changed. To stay in business you have to make a profit. In past days that profit was limited by the use of capital investment profit. Thanks to lobbyists and career politicians that was changed.
One of the results were Dr's malpractice insurance going through the roof. Hospitals, forget it. Medical equipment, forget it. Life saving drug research... FORGET IT!

YOU BETTER NOT GET SICK IN AMERICA!

Let's go deeper... Why is it that catastrophic plans disappeared in the early 80s?Plans that covered nothing until expenses exceeded even $10,000. We are back in the same space. Except the government is involved now.

Now we have ACA. It helps you pay for every little sniffle and acne breakout and muscle ache. Seriously? Not only that, but it forces people to pay for some other woman's ABORTION, I didn't knock her up... her decision to kill a baby, not mine, and don't force me to be a part of such a healthcare program... That's not healthcare.

I could go on and on about this abusive government law. I will leave it with my view that is very complicated, and above the understanding of the average sheep.
17 years ago when I was starting my own business my personal family insurance "PROTECTED BY COBRA" reached $1500 a month. That's EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR ! Putting that money in the bank has been over $306000. The worst medical expenses I have shelled out have been $5000 here and $3000 there, and small expenses like treatment for a backache... PIGGY COST ME SEVEN GRAND WHEN HE GOT SICK! No big deal.

My point is MY govt stole a thousand dollars from me in taxes. Why... Because they are crazy and don't understand I don't need a GOVERNMENT devoted to protecting every aspect of my little life. Especially when they are failing in all the CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES!

Gotta a month or so... We will sit down and talk. This has gotten to be CRAZY TALK!
#271379 by J-HALEY
Fri Jan 06, 2017 12:38 pm
One of the best cancer hospitals here in Houston (MD Anderson) is laying off 1000 employees. The hospital is getting the blame but it is really because of Obamacare that they have to do this to stay solvent! Payments are being withheld to the hospital. Apparently Obama would rather play politics instead of saving lives! :x
#271385 by Badstrat
Fri Jan 06, 2017 4:34 pm
Horwitz was on the Mark Levin Show and he had a copy of the planned changes. None of them decreased the cost, rather the changes were minimal and more destructive for the individual and they will raise the cost of insurance for the insured. More companies will opt out of paying it for employees and more people will have to go uninsured. But that has been the plan all along.
As usual healthcare changes are all smoke and mirrors without benefit or substance. Insurance prices will continue to become more beyond reach of most Americans, and people will have to wait longer to get treated if at all, and many more will die because of the disease of American society called obama and the demoncrap party. And the republicraps are no better, all they do is run in circles pretending they are doing something constructive. The only goal of these phony politicians is to stay in power and obtain more power over the individual citizen they are supposedly elected to serve not rule over. Welcome to full out tyranny. Have another glass of cool-aide.

But after all, isn't the job of government is to create problem so that they can "fix them" and make them worse?

As always in the corrupt political system everything stays the same, only the names have changed.

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