Dont like the mandate, hope you like this ?

[Penelope]

Specifically, insurers would be allowed to charge anyone with a two-month gap in coverage up to a thirty-per-cent surcharge on a new policy. For many Americans, the surcharge under Trumpcare could end up being more than the current tax penalty under Obamacare. (If the new surcharge wasn’t enough of a sweetener for the industry, tucked into the bill is a tax break for insurance-company executives who make more than five hundred thousand dollars per year, a proposal that will be shredded by Democrats and Republicans alike.)

Paul Ryan’s Health-Care Vise:

 

[JakeStarkey]

So the penalty is moved from the government to the private provider.

 

[JBond]

So the penalty is moved from the government to the private provider.

The tax penalty we were told was not a tax? Is that what you are referring to? All of it sucks. How about this? Try hard in school, get a job, and buy the things you need. Not iPhones and other crap, but the things you need. Make yourself useful enough to at least cover the basics. Every time you beg the government to do your begging for you, through the tax code, kick yourself three times in the nuts, because that is what you will get.

 

[dblack]

Specifically, insurers would be allowed to charge anyone with a two-month gap in coverage up to a thirty-per-cent surcharge on a new policy. For many Americans, the surcharge under Trumpcare could end up being more than the current tax penalty under Obamacare. (If the new surcharge wasn’t enough of a sweetener for the industry, tucked into the bill is a tax break for insurance-company executives who make more than five hundred thousand dollars per year, a proposal that will be shredded by Democrats and Republicans alike.)

Paul Ryan’s Health-Care Vise:

The problem with the GOP's version of ACA is that it can't let go of the core delusion that insurance is supposed to serve as a social safety net. The requirement that insurance companies write policies for people who are already sick is insane.

 

[Penelope]

So the penalty is moved from the government to the private provider.

Now because the new HI policy does not go in to detail, not sure what happens if one gets ill and then tries to buy insurance, I bet the premium would be sky high, and if one buys ins. when healthy and decides to not buy it for a year to pay off their student loans, then what happens when they go back and get insurance?

Who knows and who gives a rip is the GOP version. The healthy , wealthy and ins companies are the top winners here, not the poor, aged or ill.

 

[dblack]

So the penalty is moved from the government to the private provider.

Now because the new HI policy does not go in to detail, not sure what happens if one gets ill and then tries to buy insurance, I bet the premium would be sky high, and if one buys ins. when healthy and decides to not buy it for a year to pay off their student loans, then what happens when they go back and get insurance?

Who knows and who gives a rip is the GOP version. The healthy , wealthy and ins companies are the top winners here, not the poor, aged or ill.

Of course they are. This is exactly why we fought so hard against ACA in the first place. It sets up a federal feeding trough for the insurance industry.

 

[Penelope]

No doubt the ACA needs help, but it doesn't help that the GOP has been doing everything it can to make sure it does not work in their states. The ACA needs further help, enforce the mandate, and get rid of the insurance companies, there is no need for the middle man.

I love it, the GOP is committing suicide.

 

[dblack]

No doubt the ACA needs help, but it doesn't help that the GOP has been doing everything it can to make sure it does not work in their states. The ACA needs further help, enforce the mandate, and get rid of the insurance companies, there is no need for the middle man.

The ACA should receive palliative care only. We need to enter a no-resuscitation order, and avoid wasting our nest egg trying to keep it alive.

I love it, the GOP is committing suicide.

Heh.. yeah. Heard that one before. Seems the reports were 'greatly exaggerated'.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

So the penalty is moved from the government to the private provider.

The tax penalty we were told was not a tax? Is that what you are referring to? All of it sucks. How about this? Try hard in school, get a job, and buy the things you need. Not iPhones and other crap, but the things you need. Make yourself useful enough to at least cover the basics. Every time you beg the government to do your begging for you, through the tax code, kick yourself three times in the nuts, because that is what you will get.

Tell it those who, through no fault of their own, cannot do those things.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

But hey, its not we don't have alternatives, right?

 

[Damaged Eagle]

All the progressives had to do back when they implemented Obamacare was nationalize the health care industry and make sure health care would be available to all for "the general welfare".

Instead they choose to line the pockets of the health care industry, including the health insurance industry, by mandating everyone had to purchase a health insurance policy from a private business just because that person happens to be breathing.

If the progressives don't like the twists and turns their unconstitutional mandate takes then they should have followed the Constitution and made health care available to all at the same cost without violating the rights of citizens with their mandates.

*****SMILE*****