CR:
The Trump administration was right to resurrect short-term insurance plans last month as a limited off-ramp from Obamacare for those trapped in the insolvent individual market. However, let’s not forget that we are only in this position because Congress has refused to address the core problems with health care and medical insurance. Both parties have agreed to perpetuate the worst elements of Obamacare.
As early as 2016, my premiums had already tripled, and the coverage was terrible! I dropped out and opted for a health-sharing ministry, but since then, premiums almost doubled again. And now, in my state of Maryland, they are slated to go up another 91 percent. Yet Mitch McConnell and the overwhelming majority of Republicans believe that the regulations that led to this outcome are the solution, not the problem, and will do everything in their power to fight for their acceptance.
Last Friday, 10 Republicans introduced legislation to protect the core elements of Obamacare – guaranteed issue and community rating – from a potential lawsuit. Oral arguments will begin in the newest round of litigation against the law in the Northern District of Texas next Wednesday. “This legislation is a common-sense solution that guarantees Americans with pre-existing conditions will have health care coverage, regardless of how our judicial system rules on the future of Obamacare,” wrote Senator Thom Tillis in his introductory statement.
Tillis was joined by Lamar Alexander, Charles E. Grassley, Dean Heller, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, John Barrasso, and Roger Wicker. Remember, Alexander is the head of the committee with jurisdiction over the issue, Cassidy has led all health care legislative initiatives, and Barrasso is the chairman of the Republican Policy Committee and was the point man on Obamacare. The most prominent Republicans support the core elements of the law, and there is only a handful of senators who don’t share the Democrat philosophy on the issue. This is not about 60 or 51 votes. We don’t even have 15 Republicans who are with us on the most important fiscal issue of our time. more here
The only good thing, actually a great thing was ending the individual mandate.
The generation of Baba Orielly keeps getting fooled again. There, I’ve satisfied my yearly Who references in one post.
Brad: Reminds me of this:
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush
A fool and his money are soon democrats…
A fool and YOUR money?
Tony R- lol
Think boehner. think mccain. think ryan. think mcconnell.
Rino scum, all of them.
I believe that those scum sucking congresscritters would all do something if they were stripped of the taxpayer subsidized indemnity plan that they all currently enjoy.
You know that plan…all for me and none for thee.
For doing what he did to Americans’ healthcare, God may have demonstrated his regard for McCain via that brain tumor.
If enough of those scurvy rats, aka legislators, succumb to their mortality in vivid nasty ways, maybe they’ll suddenly be interested in doing justice to their sworn duties to serve The People.