There is nothing so permanent as a "temporary" Government Program (ACA Subsidies)

[DGS49]

Democrats hold the government hostage over subsidies Americans don’t want

Democrats are holding the government hostage over temporary COVID-era ACA subsidies that have led to widespread fraud and cost taxpayers $27 billion.

www.foxnews.com

The budget-busting subsidies that Schumer risks his political life to save are...not to be melodramatic...an abomination.

Their very existence proves that ACA was a failure; they are Covid-related, thus overdue for cancellation; their rolls are riddled with fraud.

Despite the constant rantings from the Left, Government can do very little to make healthcare "affordable" (today's catchword). It is an expensive proposition, provided by massive, inefficient organizations with zero motivation to be efficient, and incorporating constantly improving technologies, all of which add to the cost.

O'Bama-Care destroyed the foundation of health insurance: the ability of insurers to project costs and divide clients into like-situated people to optimize their rates. By forcing insurers to cover everyone without limits and essentially guaranteeing that they would not suffer economically, it has largely been responsible for that explosion of health insurance premiums*, with no remedy in sight.

There is no "Republican version" of ACA, since it is an unconstitutional mess, and any Republican alternative would necessarily also be unconstitutional. The best that can be done is to repeal ACA, allow health insurers to go back to their old traditional methods, and create a government-backstopped program - separate from the general one - for those with the dreaded "pre-existing conditions." Then allow interstate competition among health insurers, embark on tort reform (also unconstitutional, but who cares), and give it a few years to "circle back" on the matter.

But guaranteeing ACA subsidies for another year is a non-starter, as Schumer surely knows.


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* Never confuse "healthcare cost" and "health insurance cost." They are two different things.

 

[Oddball]

"But what will you replace Ovomitcare with?"...So the doc removed a tumor, what do I replace it with?

 

[Oddball]

 

[1srelluc]

The only thing the vile dems ever put in place that I have ever seen been allowed to "sunset" was the 10-year Clinton AWB.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Democrats hold the government hostage over subsidies Americans don’t want

Democrats are holding the government hostage over temporary COVID-era ACA subsidies that have led to widespread fraud and cost taxpayers $27 billion.

www.foxnews.com

The budget-busting subsidies that Schumer risks his political life to save are...not to be melodramatic...an abomination.

Their very existence proves that ACA was a failure; they are Covid-related, thus overdue for cancellation; their rolls are riddled with fraud.

Despite the constant rantings from the Left, Government can do very little to make healthcare "affordable" (today's catchword). It is an expensive proposition, provided by massive, inefficient organizations with zero motivation to be efficient, and incorporating constantly improving technologies, all of which add to the cost.

O'Bama-Care destroyed the foundation of health insurance: the ability of insurers to project costs and divide clients into like-situated people to optimize their rates. By forcing insurers to cover everyone without limits and essentially guaranteeing that they would not suffer economically, it has largely been responsible for that explosion of health insurance premiums*, with no remedy in sight.

There is no "Republican version" of ACA, since it is an unconstitutional mess, and any Republican alternative would necessarily also be unconstitutional. The best that can be done is to repeal ACA, allow health insurers to go back to their old traditional methods, and create a government-backstopped program - separate from the general one - for those with the dreaded "pre-existing conditions." Then allow interstate competition among health insurers, embark on tort reform (also unconstitutional, but who cares), and give it a few years to "circle back" on the matter.

But guaranteeing ACA subsidies for another year is a non-starter, as Schumer surely knows.


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* Never confuse "healthcare cost" and "health insurance cost." They are two different things.

Also destroyed small private practices. Its all corporate care now.

 

[skews13]

Democrats hold the government hostage over subsidies Americans don’t want

Democrats are holding the government hostage over temporary COVID-era ACA subsidies that have led to widespread fraud and cost taxpayers $27 billion.

www.foxnews.com

The budget-busting subsidies that Schumer risks his political life to save are...not to be melodramatic...an abomination.

Their very existence proves that ACA was a failure; they are Covid-related, thus overdue for cancellation; their rolls are riddled with fraud.

Despite the constant rantings from the Left, Government can do very little to make healthcare "affordable" (today's catchword). It is an expensive proposition, provided by massive, inefficient organizations with zero motivation to be efficient, and incorporating constantly improving technologies, all of which add to the cost.

O'Bama-Care destroyed the foundation of health insurance: the ability of insurers to project costs and divide clients into like-situated people to optimize their rates. By forcing insurers to cover everyone without limits and essentially guaranteeing that they would not suffer economically, it has largely been responsible for that explosion of health insurance premiums*, with no remedy in sight.

There is no "Republican version" of ACA, since it is an unconstitutional mess, and any Republican alternative would necessarily also be unconstitutional. The best that can be done is to repeal ACA, allow health insurers to go back to their old traditional methods, and create a government-backstopped program - separate from the general one - for those with the dreaded "pre-existing conditions." Then allow interstate competition among health insurers, embark on tort reform (also unconstitutional, but who cares), and give it a few years to "circle back" on the matter.

But guaranteeing ACA subsidies for another year is a non-starter, as Schumer surely knows.


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* Never confuse "healthcare cost" and "health insurance cost." They are two different things.

Easy fix. Replace the ACA with a national public payer healthcare system like every other civilized industrial nation in the world has.

But obviously reading the comments here, you learned nothing from Tuesday's elections. Great. That only will only make the total wipeout easier in the midterms next year.

Keep on trolling those talking points loud and proud guys.

 

[Oddball]

Easy fix. Replace the ACA with a national public payer healthcare system like every other civilized industrial nation in the world has.

Bandwagon isn't an argument....GTFO.

 

[skews13]

Bandwagon isn't an argument....GTFO.

After the elections next year, are you going with the it was rigged excuse, or are you working on some new material?

 

[Oddball]

After the elections next year, are you going with the it was rigged excuse, or are you working on some new material?

Irrelevant to anything I said or the thread.

 

[DGS49]

Socialized medicine would require a Constitutional Amendment. Congress lacks the Article I power to do it.

Honest to God, if the Leftists had any balls and any integrity whatsoever, they would stop dangling bullshit like "Medicare for All" and present the country with the necessary Constitutional Amendment to DO IT RIGHT, and let the peoples' representatives vote on it.

But I suspect they don't do that because they know that such an amendment would (a) Fail spectacularly, and (b) Demonstrate that Americans DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE.

Then they would have to STFU.

 

[Greenbeard]

Lots of GOP (including by Trump) social media activity today ginning up support for abolishing private insurers, so we may not end up needing the ACA subsidies after all.

 

[1srelluc]

IMHO the gop is letting the dems/MSM run away with "mah healthcare".

Just STFU and don't give any lip service to the matter at all.

 

[Greenbeard]

IMHO the gop is letting the dems/MSM run away with "mah healthcare".

Just STFU and don't give any lip service to the matter at all.

I don’t want to hear anything about affordability or health care!

 

[1srelluc]

I don’t want to hear anything about affordability or health care!

Damn sure not any vile dem version.