Earler today, Republican House leaders led by GOP speaker Paul Ryan unveiled their proposed replacement for Obamacare – the utterly failed assault on the middle class which was authored in large part by convicted felon, democrat operative, and White House regular Robert Creamer – who wrote 628 pages of it from prison.
You can check out the new GOP proposal here, as well as Trump’s comments from earlier today:
Trump talks about replacing failed Obamacare scheme. https://t.co/zyKhg9qLkM pic.twitter.com/FMmvlqCOMs
— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) March 8, 2017
The basics are as follows:
- Removes Obamacare taxes on drugs, health-insurance premiums, and medical devices.
- Removes individual / employer mandate which was severely harming the middle class.
- Prohibit health insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
- Allow basement-dwelling neckbeards to remain on their parents’ plans until they are 26 (45% older than they were when they became grown ass legal adults).
- Low income protections: provides states with $100 Billion to help low-income Americans afford healthcare.
- Enhanced Health Savings Accounts – nearly doubling the amount people can contribute.
- Provide a tax credit of up to $14,000 / year for low and middle-income individuals and families who don’t receive insurance through work or a government program.
While Paul Ryan says he can guarantee enough votes to win passage in the House, the American Health Care Act – also known as TrumpCare (and now RyanCare), key Democrats denounced the proposal – claiming it will deprive millions of Americans of health insurance. On the far right, lawmakers publicly condemned the plan as a lackluster repackaging of Obamacare. Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee called it “exactly the type of back-room dealing and rushed process that we criticized Democrats for,” with others echoing similar sentiment.
“We think you have to get rid of Obamacare completely” -Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Outside of congress, conservative groups including the Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, Heritage Action for America, and the Koch backed Freedom Partners claim that “RyanCare” doesn’t go far enough- with the Club for Growth calling it a “warmed-over substitute for government-run healthcare”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA) the man hired to oversee the process calls it a “work in progress”
“You start at a starting point, people engage and they get involved in the process, sometimes to a greater degree,” Price said. “We’ll work through it. This is an important process to be had.”
Vice President Mike Pence calls the new proposal a “framework,” leaving the door open to modification – and even President Trump hedged:
Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. ObamaCare is a complete and total disaster – is imploding fast!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2017
Trump’s smart – he’s not taking credit for the new Healthcare Bill, while at the same time letting Paul Ryan do battle with the rest of the swamp. Perhaps this is why Ryan had such a curious sudden hard-on for Trump the other week…
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Mark Levin went over this on today’s show. It’s total horseshit. Fuck Ryan and Pence too.
Why is government involved in health care? Everything they touch turns to shit. Health insurance is not a right.
call me a cuck then because the bill is ridiculous.
Set aside the hard to insure (nice to have back the billions for setting up the exchange and the websites…..) options.
Allow without repealing people to buy across states with an ala carte menu of what they want. Open up normal health care policies like we use to have and then watch as the people run away from obamacare and it is phased out. Those who need their plan can keep their plan. Create choice and competition. Works every time.
It does not repeal the “penalty.” It instead moves it to the back end; if you don’t have insurance (by choice) and then buy it, you get hammered with a 30% penalty for a year. For most people that’s far more than the ACA penalty for not having insurance — it could easily be $3,000 or more! This is outright fraud on the part of the GOP which said it was repealing the penalty. Paul Ryan, Donald Trump and the rest are all ****ing liars.
Medicaid expansion is essentially ended and cost-pickup for the states is capped to CPI-U’s medical expenditures inflation index on a forward basis. This will detonate State budgets within about 10 years as the current spend is expanding at ~9% a year but the CPI-U index is less than half that.
It does not repeal the prohibition on discrimination in price (or denial) for pre-existing conditions, but it does increase the multiplier for age to 5 (from 3.)
IT IS NOT A REPEAL OF THE ACA — not even close. The vast majority of the ACA remains intact. The “mandate” is gone but the penalty remains, just shifted to the back side and for many will be far worse than the penalty would have been. The restriction on what plans you can sell is gone, subsidies are cut, indexed only to age and paid to HSAs instead of directly to insurers. It does repeal many of the “add-on” taxes that paid for the program previously as well.
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U2lemons Bingo exactly what Levin said. Sneaky Ryan back door $3,000 shaft right up our arses. Really can’t stand that Romney rhino.