Maybe a conservative can explain, the Repiblicans are going to "repeal" the ACA,

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Maybe a conservative can explain, the Repiblicans are going to "repeal" the ACA,

but delay the enactment of that repeal until they have a replacement program?

Too funny, they've had six years, and in all that time, even during a Presidential election, they've never gotten beyond the rhetoric stage in an alternative to Obamacare, and now their going come up with a real consensus program?

Looks like another facade to appease the good ole boys back home, does any entity get played more than conservatives?
 
Darth Hussein Omar said:
You explain the ACA first.

Arguably, the most ill conceived piece of legislation in the last 50 years.
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Too funny, the ACA is Obamacare, the law I guarantee you have no understanding of beyond what you heard on the radio, and if it is "the most ill conceived piece of legislation" how come the Republocans have been unable to come up with an alternative in six years, and still can't given they have to repeal and delay?"
 
archives said:
but delay the enactment of that repeal until they have a replacement program?

Too funny, they've had six years, and in all that time, even during a Presidential election, they've never gotten beyond the rhetoric stage in an alternative to Obamacare, and now their going come up with a real consensus program?

Looks like another facade to appease the good ole boys back home, does any entity get played more than conservatives?
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You're right, the GOP would rather not repeal the ACA and the six years you refer to is proof of that. They've used Obama , and Hillary, and the ACA to fund raise. But, now they're scrambling because Trump made it an issue and Trumps election shocked the GOP just as much as it did the Democrats so they are starting from scratch. We'll see what they come up with.
 
Trump has chosen Tom Price as his new HHS. Price has put forward replacement plans, previously.
 
archives said:
Too funny, the ACA is Obamacare, the law I guarantee you have no understanding of beyond what you heard on the radio, and if it is "the most ill conceived piece of legislation" how come the Republocans have been unable to come up with an alternative in six years, and still can't given they have to repeal and delay?"
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And then he can explain why a record number of people signed up for '17 because Trump promised to take away their health insurance. Trump voters signed up in droves.
 
Maybe a conservative can explain, the Repiblicans are going to "repeal" the ACA,

Althea said:
And then he can explain why a record number of people signed up for '17 because Trump promised to take away their health insurance. Trump voters signed up in droves.
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Can you prove that is why they signed up? Did you ask them?
 
Queen Snowflake said:
The right has said that about every program that benefits the working class.
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"Is Obamacare really affordable? Not for the middle class. - Nov. 4, 2016
money.cnn.com/2016/11/04/news/economy/obamacare-affordable/
Nov 4, 2016 - "The middle class are getting squeezed," said Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "They aren't getting subsidies and these deductibles are hard to afford." This schism is turning Obamacare into another government benefit program for lower- and moderate-income Americans.

Middle-Class Americans Face Biggest Strain Under Rising - NPR
www.npr.org/.../middle-class-americans-face-biggest-strain-under-rising-...
Nov 6, 2016 - UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: The middle class are families who are ... Open enrollment for insurance under Obamacare began this past week.
 
Milagro said:
Mitt Romney is still available maybe he could come up with an alternative? After all he did something similar in Massachusetts.

http://obamacarefacts.com/romneycare-romneyhealthcare/

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Romney's plan relies heavily on subsidies from Medicaid. Medicaid is also gone under Trump. Romney also taxes hospitals and insurance companies to fund his program.

Try that on a national level, and you've got ACA before Republicans removed critical funding.
 
Guille said:
You're right, the GOP would rather not repeal the ACA and the six years you refer to is proof of that. They've used Obama , and Hillary, and the ACA to fund raise. But, now they're scrambling because Trump made it an issue and Trumps election shocked the GOP just as much as it did the Democrats so they are starting from scratch. We'll see what they come up with.
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They'll come up with squat. Overwhelmingly, Americans want to keep ACA. If House Republicans hadn't removed all funding from the risk corridors, there would be plenty of insurers on the exchanges.
So...Republicans removed key funding from ACA, and cannot replace it with anything that doesn't require large Fed. grants. They'll just have another name for the same program, but they won't have to give Obama credit.


The first thing they should do, is prove Trump wrong. Open those 'imaginary lines' we heard so much about, and let insurance companies sell across state lines. Watch how it does nothing to change rates.
 
Althea said:
They'll come up with squat. Overwhelmingly, Americans want to keep ACA. If House Republicans hadn't removed all funding from the risk corridors, there would be plenty of insurers on the exchanges.
So...Republicans removed key funding from ACA, and cannot replace it with anything that doesn't require large Fed. grants. They'll just have another name for the same program, but they won't have to give Obama credit.


The first thing they should do, is prove Trump wrong. Open those 'imaginary lines' we heard so much about, and let insurance companies sell across state lines. Watch how it does nothing to change rates.
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What key funding did repubs remove?

Obama should have allowed Ins. Co. to cross State lines. And, employers should have been banned from offering insurance which is just a payroll tax dodge, and a noose that ties employees to their employer.
 
Bigdog said:
What key funding did repubs remove?

Obama should have allowed Ins. Co. to cross State lines. And, employers should have been banned from offering insurance which is just a payroll tax dodge, and a noose that ties employees to their employer.
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Wait...you wave a Conservative flag for years, and you aren't proud of how House Republicans killed ACA? Just Google 'Republicans remove funding for risk corridors'.

Why do you believe that selling across state lines will change anything?
 
Althea said:
Wait...you wave a Conservative flag for years, and you aren't proud of how House Republicans killed ACA? Just Google 'Republicans remove funding for risk corridors'.

Why do you believe that selling across state lines will change anything?
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It will increase competition, prices will have to be lowered to compete.
 
Deplorable Me said:
It will increase competition, prices will have to be lowered to compete.
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If those companies wanted to join exchanges, why didn't they do it already?(I know the answer) What keeps one state's rates lower than another? Risk. That risk won't change in the new state that a new company enters.
 
They;ll work it out.
Single Pay was the best way- but the Dems didn't demand it ( Bernie did -Clinton dithered around the idea)-
and the Repubs were politically wed to killing it. Honestly it was always a compromised program with insane costs

It's politically popular -that will win out to get some type of replacement
 
Althea said:
Wait...you wave a Conservative flag for years, and you aren't proud of how House Republicans killed ACA? Just Google 'Republicans remove funding for risk corridors'.

Why do you believe that selling across state lines will change anything?
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YOU called for erasing those lines in your post. But to answer you, it would increase competition.

Re: funding
" Furthermore, the program hasn’t been "wiped out." At best, Rubio and Congress have temporarily limited one potential way CMS could have covered insurance companies' losses."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...we-wiped-out-obamacare-bailout-fund-insuranc/
 
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