I’m hearing the ads here in Alaska for months. They are designed to policy-shame Senator Lisa Murkowski into keeping Obamacare because too many people in this state rely so heavily upon the subsidies and the assistance from the medical policies here that there is a huge uproar over the possibility that she may vote to repeal the Unaffordable Care Act.
The problem is that the dire ramifications of inaction by Congress on this debacle are not delved into here because of the remoteness of the state. We are unaffected here by a lot of what is happening down there, particularly in middle America where this terribly damaging healthcare mess is destroying choice, raising premiums, and denying care. Millions upon millions are still uninsured, which is exactly the reason the bill was supposedly passed in the first place. It was one big lie as everyone knows.
Despite all the bad news about Obamacare, there are still those Democrats who continue to trumpet its successes and want to keep it in place, draining precious taxpayer money, like a tremendous Blue money pit.
Frustrated with yet another setback in attempting to Repeal & Replace, Trump and McConnell have both put forward the notion that perhaps its time to pull the trigger on this job-killing, insurance-killing bill and straight-out Repeal it. Read on the following page about who stands with the president and who stands against America. RINOs beware!
Do your damn jobs! We’re sick of the stonewalling and c**p the left is getting away with. Get busy working “for” the people or get out!
Democrats controlled and paid off by George Soros seem to be doing exactly what he is asking of them, and so are some Rhinos. Those people all need to go. They are only looking out for themselves. As long as George, Obama, and the Clintons are around we will only see obstruction from these people. THIS IS NOT TRUMP’S FAULT.
And these people want to vote themselves a $20,000 a year raise because they can’t do their jobs for $174,000 a year? Since obstructing everything Trump is trying to do seems to be their main concern I say they are way overpaid as it is.
The real reason that Obamacare is failing is because Trump isn’t paying the insurers the money being collected from the individual mandate. In other words, he’s sabotaging it!
In Pennsylvania, five insurers joined with the state insurance commissioner to warn Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on April 26 that the market in that state is tottering because of federal inaction. “The most immediate drivers of instability are Trumps weakening of the individual mandate, which is causing the uncertain status of funding for the cost sharing reductions and the absence of funding for overall market stabilization measures.”
Market stabilization measures mean the risk corridor provision of the ACA that was designed to subsidize insurers that acquired a customer base with an above-average level of risk; the program was undermined by congressional Republicans, who effectively cut its funding.
“The absence of certainty regarding market parameters and in particular those with direct financial consequence,” the insurers and commissioner continued, “magnify the risks of market participation in a way that issuers and regulators cannot ignore.”
A recent poll showed that Americans almost universally abominated the Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan. (Quinnipiac University)
Joe Swedish, the CEO of Anthem, a big insurer on the exchanges, has threatened to raise rates or pull out of some states if the CSR doubts aren’t resolved soon. “We plan to file preliminary 2018 rates with the assumption that the cost-sharing reductions will be funded,” he said during the company’s first-quarter earnings conference call. But “if we do not have certainty that CSRs will be funded for 2018 by early June, we will need to evaluate appropriate adjustments to our filing. … Those adjustments could include resubmitting higher rates increases or exiting certain individual ACA-compliant markets altogether.”
Despite these warnings, the Trump administration and congressional Republicans continue to pretend that the ills of the individual market are President Obama’s fault. Earlier Tuesday, Price remarked that “the failure of the individual marketplace under Obamacare is driving insurers out of counties and states at an alarming rate, leaving millions of Americans without choices for affordable health insurance.”
He showed no willingness to acknowledge that his own policies are responsible for a good part of those problems, and the failure of the White House and congressional GOP to take the matter in hand allows them to fester.
The Republican game plan long has been based on blaming any collapse of the individual market on the law itself and its implementation under the Obama administration. But there are clear signs that that won’t work. The tide of anger visible in town hall meetings held by Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare in the House is evidence that they’re being held responsible. So, too, is the result of a Quinnipiac University opinion poll released last week, showing intense disapproval of the GOP repeal plan across all age groupings and all political categories except Republicans—but even GOP voters failed to give the measure more than 48% support.
With control of both houses of Congress and the White House, the GOP is “it” on healthcare policy now. If the individual market collapses, they’ll get the blame.
Blaming trump ? Nice try…dems own the failure…just like obama…its 90% done…let dems come crawling back to admit its a failure…..
And your care would suck.
Pathetic
FULL REPEAL ONLY !
Douchebags….
We will NOT destroy the many for the sick few!
No one should ever be forced to pay for someone else’s ailments.
If you voted for Obama or Hillary you don’t need health care…
You are the stage 4 cancer devouring America.
If the rich Hollywood Liberal degenerates think their liberal offspring should have health care….. Pay for it like you say you will pay their college tuition! You rich Liberals have enough together to cover it for everyone if it’s so important.
You Liberal retards should have paid for your health care with the money spent on the last two worthless Liberal elections.
Or the money spent on implementation of Obama Failure and the last 8yrs trying to keep it afloat could have paid everyone’s healthcare for the next 4 generations.
Get rid of the c**p obamacare totally! Start with a whole brand new slate! Just do it! Man up! The dimwits and rino’s own this mess!!
Can he just take a dirt nap?