All Along the GOP Plan to Fix Health Care in America
Obamacare Final Solution
(In the GOP's own words)
Update or status report if you will on the latest GOP “Repeal/Replace the ACA (Obamacare)” move according to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI).
First this reminder:
A mere week before he was sworn into office Donald J. Trump insisted that any
ACA repeal would not occur without a replacement plan ready to go, too.
Of
course he was still in some sort of campaign-style mode as he said (January 12,
2017) when he said: “Obamacare is the Democrats’ problem. We’re going to take the problem
off the shelves for them. We’re doing them a tremendous favor.”
My
Memo for Mr. Trump and the entire all GOP-run Congress is this simple rule –
lest they forget which is: “The Pottery Barn rule: You break it, you own it.”
Background
on how we got to this final showdown stage: The GOP House vote to repeal and
replace was 227 to 198 (Note: Nine Republicans joined all the Democrats in
voting no – they apparently have some honor).
It
then passed in the senate under a simple majority budget rule that was designed
to block the DEMS by a vote of 51-48.
The
main story to date from USA TODAY – the highlighted
notes are mine:
House
Speaker Paul Ryan said recently that Republicans will introduce a bill to
repeal and replace Obamacare when lawmakers return from their recess while waiting for the actual release date until the cost of the replacement bill estimation is
provide by the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation.
Then Ryan said: “It has
become increasingly clear that this law is collapsing.”
My note: Yes, it is collapsing for reason Mr. Ryan - it follows your entire strategy statement: “Wreck it or break it and blame the wreck on Mr. Obama just like for other policy: Break the systems and then blame the systems for being broken. Sadly, the GOP base laps up all that BS up by the truckload. So, there are no GOPers now with ACA or subsidy to help them or none have care under the extended Medicaid coverage, right? Yeah, right.”
Ryan went on to cite a recent announcement by Humana to pull out of Obamacare's health
exchanges as another sign that the current system is failing then he added: “It
will keep getting worse unless we act.”
My note: I
call that the GOP “savior rule” means only they can save the day.
More Ryan BS:
1.
The replacement bill will give consumers the power to choose their own health
care plans in a more competitive marketplace.
2.
There be “tax credits” which are likely to replace the current method which is
government subsidies for about 85% of Americans who purchased their coverage
from the Obamacare exchanges.
3.
Ryan emphasized that “A tax credit is a fixed amount to be used to buy the
health plan of their own choosing. What we're proposing is a patient-centered
system where patients get to decide what to do.”
4.
Ryan also said that Republicans would love to have DEM support but also said
it's clear Democrats don't want to support the GOP plan since they “want to go
down the socialized medicine path with their idea about support for
a “public option that would create a government-run health insurance
agency to compete with private companies and the GOP cannot allow that.”
5.
Re: More than a dozen states have expanded Medicaid programs to help the poor
with federal help. Those families are worried about losing their coverage.
I note: Ryan
said in part (which is pretty weak): “We're going to have to find solutions
that accommodate those concerns.” Now I ask bluntly: WTF does that mean?
Republicans
made the repeal and replacement of Obamacare a major promise of their election
campaigns last year and now they have the House votes to do that without any
DEM votes, but the GOP would need help from Democrats to pass a replacement
plan in the Senate.
Finally: This may just be just a footnote in history – facts worth
re-posting:
Thanks for stopping by and
for sure stay tuned … this ought to be the best show in town.
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