Today President-Elect Donald Trump told the Wall St. Journal that he likes two clauses in Obamacare “very much,” praising the following components of Obama’s disastrous crowning achievement in the ongoing mugging of middle class wallets:
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The ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions
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Provision allowing children to be insured on their parents’ policies
I agree 100%, as obese basement dwelling 26 year old hypochondriac snowflakes across the land will be able to see a psychiatrist to cope with the debilitating triggering epidemic we face today.
Per the WSJ:
In his first interview since his election earlier this week, Mr. Trump said one priority was moving “quickly” on the president’s signature health initiative, which he argued has become so unworkable and expensive that “you can’t use it.”
Yet, Mr. Trump also showed a willingness to preserve at least two provisions of the health law after the president asked him to reconsider repealing it during their meeting at the White House on Thursday
Mr. Trump said he favors keeping the prohibition against insurers denying coverage because of patients’ existing conditions, and a provision that allows parents to provide years of additional coverage for children on their insurance policies.
During the interview, Trump also distanced himself from his campaign promise of a strict “Repeal,” by adding:
“Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced.”
Is this capitulation, or is the 20,000 page legal behemoth known as Obamacare looking a bit difficult to untangle?
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How can you allow coverage for someone with pre-existing conditions without factoring that into the cost of the premium?
Good question. I’d like to know how big of an impact that clause has on insurers in the first place.
You amenable to first applying a surcharge to the policies of tens of millions of fat Americans who strain our medical and insurance systems?
Absolutely, except in rare medical cases where it’s legitimately not the person’s fault. For most people obesity is a choice, just like smoking.
Trump always supported healthcare. Never was a conservative on that one. Let the dude roll and see what happens. This like everything these days is lies until Jan. WSJ is no different then MSNBC. Trump will do this and do that and get along and eat dyke pussy and commit suicide etc etc etc.
I think Denniger has some good ideas regarding health care, anyone else read his take?
Zero.. obesity is a choice but having cancer isn’t. Pre-existing conditions have to be covered in any plan. It would be suicide for anyone to oppose it.
Trader, I agree with you that pre-existing conditions should be (and always should have been) covered. I also believe that people who make poor lifestyle choices should pay more.
That said, we also have to take care of people too poor to afford insurance, and not in the form of bullshit premium increases on the middle class and a punitive tax for those who are just above poverty but well below the ability to self insure. I know more than a handful of people in this situation getting squeezed.
Healthcare should be a basic human right in this country. Unfortunately thanks to corporate money in politics, nobody in Washington seems to be willing to address one of the biggest reasons it’s such a disaster and so difficult to fund: the obscene pricing of surgical costs and medical devices that one can find in other advanced economies at a significantly lower cost. That, and the bullshit pricing games between insurers and healthcare providers in which SOP is for insurers to pay much less than the invoiced expense, while individuals who self insure are expected to pay in full or ruin their credit (and potentially their employment status) with bankruptcy.
We are in agreement here. The ACA needs to be revised and improved, Reasonable people can craft good policy.
Trumps a secret Democrat on health care and a lot of otger issues. I’m fine with it and I support the preexisting conditions part too. The part where snowflakes stay on their parent’s insurance till 30-I understand it, but snowflakes are going to need to get to work if we deport all these hardworking illegal Latinos. Sorry snowflakes. I wonder if the latinos would be willing to train their snowflake replacements. Hopefully pass that work ethic along.
WTF? Now I’m agreeing with t.c.? This has got to stop.