We are back and stronger than
ever with this modified baby
(/s/ Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Speaker of the House)
Four basics here — Much worse to follow
(Bet on it)
– Updated (April
23, 2017) from CNBC here >> New
GOP Health Care Plan and then more below:
Trump-care
(actually the Ryan AHCA ready to make a
second attempt at passage since the yanked the previous bill due to lack of GOP
votes to pass it) may now in fact include a new “innovative” provision called
the “pro bono healthcare provision” by participating doctors to the needy
(i.e., those uninsured). The concept appears easy to understand:
1. Local doctors could voluntarily agree to
accept up to 20 pro bono patients/year.
2. In return the local doctor would receive a
tax deduction.
3. That tax deduction would be equal to a normal
office visit and fees for each.
4. At the end of the tax year, the doctor would
fill out a one-page form listing how many “pro bono” patients they served and
the value of those visits.
5. Like all tax deductions, “pro bono care” would
be subject to audit (for fraud).
The
medical community is on board. The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)
polled hundreds of doctors and found over 80 percent would participate.
Since there are some 400,000 primary care doctors and nurse
practitioner around the country, and if each were to accept 20 patients, then over
6 million insured people would be helped.
Uncle Sam would in essence be picking up the tab (no taxes from the
doctors and services paid for) but from tax reduction and tax break for the MD’s
thus reducing the Treasury’s total tax revenues for that year (less money in
the Federal kitty as it were).
Doesn’t that somehow equate to and sound like a “one-payer system?” Sure sounds like that to me.
Just don’t try and get or find a Republican in Congress to admit that is
exactly what the “pro bono” care provision would be in reality. Good luck in
your search.
GOPers would thus able to claim that the
“pro bono healthcare” provision:
1. Not only provides coverage for millions of the
uninsured, but that it is also saving money by reducing or eliminating costs
from Medicaid (which presently helps some of our neediest citizens) and thus
reducing the Federal treasury, too.
2. As for Trump, he could take credit (which he
will) for providing health care for millions of uninsured and saying he is
saving taxpayers hundreds of millions in Medicaid costs for those 6 million
thus also saving his promise to “not cut Medicaid” and give us “tax reform” too
– that is smaller government. His win-win.
Nice “art of the deal” trick,
um? Yes, it is. Plus, if Federal revenues are cut or reduced then the GOP can
claim “tax reform” – another sleight of hand trick. Call that too the “art of
the con.” (I mean good deal or raw deal? Take you choice).
Related and posted earlier – call it background
info – two key articles:
If
this all-GOP run government can’t serve people they way they have sworn to do,
or the way claim in every floor speech, then may I suggest they seek another
line of work on a cattle or horse ranch someplace out of sight shoveling the
crap they shovel on this critical issue, or tell us they want to return home to
“spend more time with their families.”
Realize
all these GOP stunts have been playing out since 2010 when the ACA was signed
into law (BTW: without a single Republican vote) and with over 75 GOP attempts
to repeal it have failed. Not hard to wonder why?
Cuts
will come – make no doubt about it. Paul Krugman, 2008 won Nobel Prize for
economics and a darn good writer says Trump voters will feel and be betrayed,
but guess what, Trump won’t care. That Krugman article is here from for the New York Times.
Also, this fine story,
vis-à-vis the GOP’s sustained nasty political con game they are play with
healthcare and their feeble attempts to “repeal and replace Obama-care also
from the
New York Times.
Now with a second all-GOP
vote in doubt again with bigger fish to fry (avoid government shutdown and pass
FY bill) even “tax reform” as promised will be delayed, too.
Seems this GOP is still
looking for how shall I say it: Still looking for leadership and apparently still looking in all the wrong places.
The old GOP: Gone
from the “Party of No” to the new GOP “Party of Nowhere.”
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