Will Obamacare last?

[srosel927]

We are told that this healthcare bill is better because for one it is free, but it is not free. Like anything it must be payed for in some way or another. In this case it will be payed for through high taxes and even more spending cuts in things such as education and our military. Not only that but there will be a large decrease in patient confidentiality since healthcare will be controlled by the government.
Everything will be going up such as: Malpractice lawsuits, extremely long wait times, decreases in flexibility, and many more.
Overall this healthcare system offers very few benefits compared to the damage that it will cause.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Will Obamacare last? Not only no but HELL NO.

Will Obama last? Not only no but HELL NO.

 

[Greenbeard]

Will Obamacare last?

That's a bit of a vague question since "ObamaCare" is usually left to the reader to define. But if the law disappeared tomorrow, most of it would slowly return. Eliminating preventable readmissions, bundling payments for services, building up the primary care workforce, forming systems of accountable care, expanding health home models, and so on--these are all pretty popular ideas that will have to be done eventually.

But if you're talking specifically about the insurance market reform piece of the law--the first 20% of it or so--the answer is closer to "almost certainly." The centerpiece of those reforms is a competitive marketplace, an idea that's caught on in numerous states even among those who oppose "ObamaCare" (whatever that's supposed to mean). For example.

Colorado:

House Majority Leader Amy Stephens is no fan of "Obamacare," the term she and other Republicans prefer to use for the federal health reform law passed last year and officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Stephens, R-Monument, is co-sponsoring legislation that would allow Colorado to join other states in opting out of the law.

So Stephens, at first glance, seemed an unlikely co-sponsor of legislation that would enact one of the key tenets of health reform: the requirement that states set up health insurance "exchanges," marketplaces where individuals and small businesses can shop for insurance.

"I think you have to explore the exchange issue on its own," Stephens said. "I've always been intrigued by the exchange idea and how it might help small business."

Texas:

AUSTIN – A key House GOP health policy writer has filed legislation to create a state-run health insurance exchange in Texas.

A bill by Rep. John Zerwas, R-Katy, would create a Texas Health Insurance Connector, or simplified insurance market.

It would serve as the state's insurance exchange as required under the federal health overhaul passed last year, Zerwas said Thursday.

"My opposition to the federal health care reforms is no secret, and I continue to support Attorney General Greg Abbott's efforts to have the law declared unconstitutional," he said.

"But the ‘connector concept' has been around for decades and did not originate with Obamacare," Zerwas said. "Quite frankly, it is something that we should consider on its own merits regardless of the fate of the federal reforms."

Ohio:

Free-market advocate Carrie Haughawout (that’s “HOW-out”) was introduced Thursday as assistant director for health policy, to set the department’s legislative priorities and help the state implement federal health reform.

Yup, the same law that Gov. John Kasich and Attorney General Mike DeWine want dismantled.

Haughawout had been director of the Ohio Small Business Council, an arm of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, where she asked lawmakers to look at health policy through the eyes of business owners. In that role, she served on panels that advised former Gov. Ted Strickland on how to implement health reform, in particular one task force that advised Kasich at year’s end that it would be best for Ohio to set up its own health insurance exchange regardless of whether federal insurance-buying mandates get struck down in court.

“Even if the rest of health-care reform went away, I’m not sure people would completely scrap the idea of an exchange,” she told Columbus Business First then.