Donald Trump was elected partially on his promise to repeal Obamacare — but he may not have to do much.
Trump has already suggested that he has no intention of dismantling the law in its entirety. Despite the public’s overall dissatisfaction with the Affordable Care Act, certain popular elements remain. In particular, the provisions that allow children to stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26 and the preexisting conditions clause are still viewed favorably by the public. The individual mandate and state-run health co-ops, however, have remained unpopular ever since their implementation.
Trump has proposed an end to these state-run co-ops, suggesting that an inter-state system of private competition could help lower costs across the board.
Implementing these changes without a filibuster-proof senate may be difficult, but the state-run co-ops look to be disappearing all by themselves.
Witness the scale of the state-run co-op collapse on the next page:
Sneaky sidewinder
The simple fact is, the Federal Government can screw up a rock fight. We do NOT want them in charge of our health care. Jeeze look at the mess the VA hospitals are in if you don’t believe that.
All failing
Surprise, Surprise. Hopefully people start to realize that any time the goverment gets involved with something that has to do with $ it fails.
It is one of the major reasons, but Obamacare has other mandates that all people have to pay for pregnancy ( men and postmeopausal women don’t get pregnant) sex reassignment surgery, a fraction of the population would use that. Lots of crazy rules and regs.
Angel…. Of course we do.
Sorry the Senate has already voted to repeal it it’s in the Congress now it will be repealed in its entirety
You’re full of$#%&!@*
Yea we do!
I think the pre existing clause is one very important feature of Obamacare that should stay. Because few people can stay with insurance company they had when the condition came into existence. Not only does insurance change with job changes (and few jobs are stable these days), but employers will change insurance plans also. So even if you don’t change your job, your insurance can change anyway. Someone like me, with a chronic condition requiring medication to stay alive, could end up homeless and broke or perhaps choose death in order to keep their families housed and fed. What if an employer changed insurance plans while a person was only part way through a treatment plan for cancer? What about diabetes? Children born with some condition require multiple surgeries to correct, and their guardian gets a new insurance plan before the all the surgeries to correct the problem have been done?