The new healthcare bill was introduced last week by the GOP and Paul Ryan, this is basically Obamacare 2.0 and it’s a piece of shit (POS). So this is the crap sandwich the GOP thinks they are going to sell? I really think they sold a bill of goods to Trump. After waiting to hear the details of the new bill, I’m not encouraged.
Mr. President, GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY HEALTHCARE! PERIOD!
It has been said from people in the business, three things were killing their business:
1- Liability insurance
2- Health care insurance (HMO’s)
3 -Regulations on health care businesses
But here is the real problem, this was discussed in another Breitbart article:
Speaker Ryan’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) promised to repeal the individual mandate to require Americans to buy health insurance. Instead, the bill replaces the individual mandate with a 30 percent premium surcharge for Americans that forgo health insurance for longer than 63 days.
According to the CBO report, the Ryan plan would force one million Americans to purchase health insurance.
Note: Personally, I really don’t give a damn what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score is, they never get anything right nor do I think it’s partisan … so I highlighted the important parts.
The analysis states:
By the agencies’ estimates, roughly 1 million people would be induced to purchase insurance in 2018 to avoid possibly having to pay the surcharge in the future. In most years after 2018, however, roughly 2 million fewer people would purchase insurance because they would either have to pay the surcharge or provide documentation about previous health insurance coverage. The people deterred from purchasing coverage would tend to be healthier than those who would not be deterred and would be willing to pay the surcharge.
So it still forces Americans to buy healthcare. The current GOP bill leaves Obamacare’s community rating and pre-existing conditions regulations in place and leaving the mandated essential benefits untouched. This is the very core of Obamacare.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) explained that leaving these pieces of Obamacare in place will not resolve the issue of rising health insurance premiums — one of the American people’s chief complaints against Obamacare.
In an article from the Conservative Review, they listed some very good ideas that would work better. This list is detailed on their site, but I like a lot of their suggestions. They differentiated between Healthcare and Health Insurance.
Health care reforms
End the medical malpractice boondoggle
Allow hospitals to turn away non-urgent illegal aliens
Offer a tax deduction for those providing health care to indigents
Reform FDA approval process … big time
Make more drugs available over the counter
Stop boxing out specialty hospitals with burdensome certifications
Expand who can deliver care so health providers have to compete for the customer
Promote telemedicine and other modern delivery systems
Break the AMA monopoly on medicine and prevention of for-profit healthcare
Repeal the HIPAA regulatory leviathan
Encourage health care providers to post prices online
Health insurance reforms
Tear down regulations
Promote health status insurance to deal with pre-existing conditions
Stop socially engineering employer-based insurance through the tax code and treat it the same as individual plans
Allow unlimited Health Savings Account spending Let consumers and employers purchase health insurance plans across state lines
Permit individuals to pool together for group insurance
Change antitrust laws so Big Pharma’s stranglehold on competition is destroyed
Make Medicaid work with the market, not destroy it
Allow affluent seniors to opt out of Medicare