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2017-03-07 Home Front: Politix
Why, Yes It Is - GOP Introduce Obamacare Light
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Posted by Raj 2017-03-07 13:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Damn! mods - please move this elsewhere. Thanks.
Posted by Raj 2017-03-07 13:40||   2017-03-07 13:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Also remember that this is what Trump is pushing for as well.

He does like socialized medicine.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-07 15:00||   2017-03-07 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 GOPe - DonkLite

What did you expect?

They learned nothing from the election.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-03-07 15:09||   2017-03-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

2018 needs to be an electoral bloodbath.
Posted by Iblis 2017-03-07 15:15||   2017-03-07 15:15|| Front Page Top

#5 In general, it's not clear what problems this particular bill would actually solve.

That's because it doesn't. It doesn't repeal Obamacare; it modifies it. The mandate & penalty is gone, but the exchanges are still there, the wealth transfers subsidy is still there, and the death spiral will continue. Nothing substantive changed here.

DonkLite - now with less taste and less filling!
Posted by Raj 2017-03-07 15:40||   2017-03-07 15:40|| Front Page Top

#6 please move this elsewhere.

Moved to P.6: Seedy Politics.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-07 15:45||   2017-03-07 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7  I just want to keep my family coroner.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-07 15:50||   2017-03-07 15:50|| Front Page Top

#8 What about Interstate Competition? Seems to me someone mentioned that lately.
Posted by Hupineper Smith2347 2017-03-07 16:03||   2017-03-07 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks, tw!

One more point - if Congress and their staff were subject to this law, full unconditional repeal would have been done by now. Since they're isolated from this shit law they've inflicted on everybody else, they simply don't give a flying fuck.
Posted by Raj 2017-03-07 16:31||   2017-03-07 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 If this bill passes, the exchanges will disappear as will most of the employer health plan taxes that were the source of your (e.g. working American) health plan premium and deductible increases.

Subsidies in the form of tax credits will help offset the costs of community underwriting and guaranteed issue. And people who liked their plans but lost them will be able to participate in the market once again.

So be of good cheer. This is a step in the right direction.
Posted by regular joe 2017-03-07 16:53||   2017-03-07 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks, regular joe. I just kind of skimmed it and obviously missed key parts. That's what I get for doing posts that require research in the middle of tax season.. For some reason, the Obamacare law bugs the living hell out of me and I want to see it die, if for no other reason to see Obama's 'legacy' take it in the shitter.
Posted by Raj 2017-03-07 17:37||   2017-03-07 17:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Most Rantburgers could have figured out sustainable plan on a cocktail napkin. But no, we got this unkillable monstrosity.

Anyway interstate works for insurance groups not individual plans. Here's why: local docs set the prices. For example, Idaho docs charge less than NY docs, but that doesn't help you if you're a NYer.
Posted by Regular joe 2017-03-07 19:04||   2017-03-07 19:04|| Front Page Top

#13 It could still work. Depending on where you live it will cost more just like car insurance, but not as much as having just a state exchange as the insurance company can spread the cost over several states. That will take into account the price fluctuations for each region.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-07 19:21||   2017-03-07 19:21|| Front Page Top

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