Yes, we wrote it here on November 11, 2016, in an article, "Surging Enrollments," and other Media Motivated Hype: Trump, "…instead of egging on Donald Trump to REPEAL and REPLACE, REPEAL should be the focus, not a rush to replace with the losing Republican plans often pushed by the likes of Paul Ryan…" President Trump has finally reached the same conclusion, thank heavens.
And it wasn't the last time we said REPEAL first, including on June 21, 2017, in "Following In Obama's Footsteps on Health Insurance Could Cost Trump Moderate Republican Support," "Before Trump keeps following Obama's footsteps on the road to the contemptuous dishonest exploitation of the American people, he should stop worrying about "passing" a "replacement" and start doing his job as our representative to use his sales pitches to repeal the bad law and refrain from passing another bad law."
That's right, repeal it. When Congress vows, promises and stops making third-grade posters (sorry, third graders) calling one another mean, and passes a non-exemption rule for themselves, meaning they can't use the loophole that the federal government that we support is their employer and by laws passed by them their employer decided to give them superior health insurance policies with premiums paid up to 72 percent by the American public, THEN and ONLY THEN, have they earned our trust, either Democrat or Republican to author a new health insurance law. Obama knew this, that's why he lied and promised that we'd get insurance plans like his family.
The public employees of this country, off our backs, especially Congress, have played in their own ballpark too long. The narrative of entitlements should NEVER have excluded public employee entitlements from job security to superior benefits of public employees as a sacred cow compared to our government's promise to it's paying older folks, that's right PAYING we paid towards Medicare and Social Security, nor as public "servants" should their entitlements ever exceed our poorest citizens.
Our ballpark does not accept public employee benefits as a sacred cow. We've seen that Congress protects itself, its salaries, its raises, its gyms, its benefits, its pensions over the American people in the Obamacare fiasco.Dear Congress: You pass it, you live with it…That's where health insurance reform begins.
Showing posts with label Repeal first. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Repeal first. Show all posts
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Sever the Idea of Repeal and Replace: Obamacare was "Changing," Either way
The doomsday scenarios are wretched, not only for their manipulative attempt to inflame our population already worried about the world in which we live, but because of the savagery and shameless manipulation of our population with name-calling, half-truths and plain out lies by the candidates and our President during this disgraceful display of ego during the campaign season.
We have a new president elect, which we were going to have regardless of who you voted for and for Obamacare it's meaningful only in HOW the law will change. There was never any IF about it, both candidates had "plans" for the law, and the American people know that Obamacare as designed and enacted was basically a scam perpetrated against the American people failing according to every criteria upon which we elected this President and believed his lies about the law.
For the presidential elect, it's critical to be smart. There wasn't NOTHING before Obamacare, and both before and since we faced a healthcare crisis. Since Obamacare we've seen the same healthcare crisis with moderate improvements in some parts of that crisis, specifically expanded Medicaid, but more significant failures in improving the very reasons identified for that crisis to begin with--Skyrocketing needed healthcare costs charged by providers, skyrocketing health insurance premiums that covered less and less needed medical care and services, defensive medicine used by physicians to create a population of "well" patients being tested so that they could use the CYA strategy of running patients through the mill even as medical error remains the third leading cause of death in this country.
So let's not rush to replacement. Sever the two goals: Repeal first and then only after extended work and honest discussion of a law with the American people who can have time to influence THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, see whether a new idea would be better or just another Obamacare tradeoff that might make things worse.
Remember, there was Medicaid before Obamacare and in fact many more people were eligible for that coverage than knew they were. What Obamacare exchanges became were a bloated governmental infrastructure with employees in the Federal government using our tax dollars for their superior benefits as they implemented a miserable imposition of brutality on the American people that focused on saving the federal government and insurance companies money ONLY by reducing how much they spent on needed medical services for nsureds in an unholy partnership of a government led by a President with limited non-public employee experience and a vision that was determined to use the non-government employee middle class as his piggybank for his pet projects.
Hillary Clinton not only PROMISED to continue this destruction of the middle class but promised to go further, allowing illegal immigrants to reap the benefits of this Obama entitlement program of payouts in order to satisfy insurance company enrollment goals creating an even more grotesque symbol of the new liberalism that puts American citizens last and only useful as tools for a government class run amok.
As far as undoing the long-lauded coverage for pre-existing conditions, reinstate the original program pre this horrible law, the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan,https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Insurance-Programs/Pre-Existing-Condition-Insurance-Plan.html.
Repeal. Do it. But don't replace so fast, because we're onto the game and only the Obamacare fangirls and fanboys who have been unable to understand Obamacare and still parrot the lies of the original law might be persuaded to believe that there's a "good" government-insurance company partnership that will work for the American people.
We have a new president elect, which we were going to have regardless of who you voted for and for Obamacare it's meaningful only in HOW the law will change. There was never any IF about it, both candidates had "plans" for the law, and the American people know that Obamacare as designed and enacted was basically a scam perpetrated against the American people failing according to every criteria upon which we elected this President and believed his lies about the law.
For the presidential elect, it's critical to be smart. There wasn't NOTHING before Obamacare, and both before and since we faced a healthcare crisis. Since Obamacare we've seen the same healthcare crisis with moderate improvements in some parts of that crisis, specifically expanded Medicaid, but more significant failures in improving the very reasons identified for that crisis to begin with--Skyrocketing needed healthcare costs charged by providers, skyrocketing health insurance premiums that covered less and less needed medical care and services, defensive medicine used by physicians to create a population of "well" patients being tested so that they could use the CYA strategy of running patients through the mill even as medical error remains the third leading cause of death in this country.
So let's not rush to replacement. Sever the two goals: Repeal first and then only after extended work and honest discussion of a law with the American people who can have time to influence THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, see whether a new idea would be better or just another Obamacare tradeoff that might make things worse.
Remember, there was Medicaid before Obamacare and in fact many more people were eligible for that coverage than knew they were. What Obamacare exchanges became were a bloated governmental infrastructure with employees in the Federal government using our tax dollars for their superior benefits as they implemented a miserable imposition of brutality on the American people that focused on saving the federal government and insurance companies money ONLY by reducing how much they spent on needed medical services for nsureds in an unholy partnership of a government led by a President with limited non-public employee experience and a vision that was determined to use the non-government employee middle class as his piggybank for his pet projects.
Hillary Clinton not only PROMISED to continue this destruction of the middle class but promised to go further, allowing illegal immigrants to reap the benefits of this Obama entitlement program of payouts in order to satisfy insurance company enrollment goals creating an even more grotesque symbol of the new liberalism that puts American citizens last and only useful as tools for a government class run amok.
As far as undoing the long-lauded coverage for pre-existing conditions, reinstate the original program pre this horrible law, the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan,https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Insurance-Programs/Pre-Existing-Condition-Insurance-Plan.html.
Repeal. Do it. But don't replace so fast, because we're onto the game and only the Obamacare fangirls and fanboys who have been unable to understand Obamacare and still parrot the lies of the original law might be persuaded to believe that there's a "good" government-insurance company partnership that will work for the American people.
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