Ok...we have a really bad bad law on the books. One which because of its size, cost and scope would be hard to simply repeal and replace, although there is strong feelings on doing that.
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“Repealing and replacing” Obamacare with market-oriented reforms has been the Republican mantra for years now. If you’re a long-time follower of this space, you know that we’re skeptical that Obamacare will ever be repealed, GOP slogans to the contrary. Today, however, a trio of experienced Senate Republicans—Tom Coburn (Okla.), Richard Burr (N.C.), and Orrin Hatch (Utah)—have put forth the most thoughtful and constructive plan yet developed to repeal and replace Obamacare. The plan seeks to ensure that as many Americans have health coverage as Obamacare does. It’s a proposal grounded in the real-world tradeoffs that all serious reformers must make. Want to know how those tradeoffs might affect you? Read on."
Senate Republicans Develop The Most Credible Plan Yet To 'Repeal And Replace' Obamacare
It goes on to explain that some in the party want simple incremental changes and others want wholesale changes. A bit of a summary of some of the thoughts.
The idea in sharing this is to keep your folks quiet when you say things that are not true. The Republicans were totally shut out by our President, then manipulated congress to have it pass. It is not a good thing It has not even taken full effect as of yet...so at least, if you really are concerned read about the various ways being explored to handle this and it will not be easy. THAT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. THEY WILL SPEND YEARS TRYING TO FIX THIS AND OTHER THINGS THAT THEY HAD NO CHANCE TO EVEN BE INVOLVED WITH BUT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.
"The Republican Study Committee, a caucus of House Republican conservatives, put out a plan last fall that would replace Obamacare by capping the employer tax exclusion, and making a standard deduction for health coverage available to everyone. A similar plan proposed by George W. Bush in 2007 would have expanded coverage by 11 million, compared to the pre-Obamacare status quo. The best thing about this approach is that it would reduce spending and reduce the deficit; Obamacare is deficit neutral, but it substantially increases federal health spending, along with its massive expansion of federal health-care regulation."
BUT this plan needs to address that OBAMACARE that does not take affect until 2017 has a 30 million number which will be hard to get...note the date of the in effect of this massive spending bill.
"A separate cohort of Republican health plans has taken a different approach. They aim to offer universal coverage—though they rarely use that term—by ensuring that every American who needs one can get a federal subsidy to purchase health insurance. These plans include the Patients’ Choice Act of 2009, introduced by Reps. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) and Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) along with Senators Coburn and Burr; and the Empowering Patients First Act of 2013, developed by Rep. Tom Price (R., Ga.).
And finally because all you liberals have stopped reading...you are not interested in the country which will need to absorb this massive spending when Obama is gone but I hope it will at least open your eyes to the fact that all that garbage about nobody working on alternatives is just that...garbage.
"The latest entry into this field—and thus far, the best—is the new Coburn-Burr-Hatch proposal, called the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act. (They abbreviate this as the “Patient CARE Act”; I’ll call it Coburn-Burr-Hatch, or CBH.)
CBH would repeal Obamacare, and replace it with a set of more market-oriented reforms. One key point right at the start: the authors “believe our proposal is roughly budget neutral over a decade.” That is to say, for all the reconfiguring it does to the health-care system, it doesn’t substantially reduce the deficit. It may modestly reduce the amount of federal spending and taxation. The Senate trio aims to have their proposal fiscally scored by an outside group of economists, most likely Doug Holtz-Eakin’s Center for Health and Economy.
While the plan would repeal Obamacare, it would preserve some of the law’s most popular features, such as its ban on lifetime limits on insurer payouts, and its requirement that insurers cover adult children younger than 27. It would replace Obamacare’s premium hike on young people, known as age-based community rating, with a more traditional 5:1 rating band."
I am just so sick and tired of hearing all this crap that comes on here about no alternatives.
I hope you people some day will read before you post and at least stop with the party talk. There is a lot of work to do because our President put this in on purpose to not kick in until he is gone.