It was a lame as hell piece of legislation. It would have repealed exactly what?
Squirrel-Hair, who has never given a microsecond's thought to what economic liberty is, but was focused on getting a "win," says that skinny-repeal blockage has "let the American people down."
This Senate is worthless. I can't imagine how it could redeem itself. Does anyone think tax reform is going to unfold like some beautiful flower?
While the other half cheers. Good work. My son is the network administrator at Windrose, a slovenly craven health care provider in south central Indiana and they are cheering on business as usual. Let's make a difference and make it better. And thank you John Mccain--a truly great American (though many hate you too), "You have enemies? Good, that means you've stood up for something in your life." -Churchill
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No American alive has any experience with an actual free-market health care system.
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the unexpected has happened. Now that Republicans don’t have President Obama to kick around, the popularity of Obamacare has risen to new heights. An April Gallup poll, for example, found for the first time that more than half of the Americans surveyed (55 percent) approved of Obamacare.
A June Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found Obamacare to be more popular at 41 percent than the House repeal-and-replace alternative at 16 percent. Only 12 percent liked the Senate version in a USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
Also rising: Support for a progressive alternative known as “single-payer,” a system like Canada’s in which government provides health coverage to all through a single government-run health insurance system.
A June poll by Pew Research Center found that a 60 percent majority of Americans now say it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also, 33 percent of the public now favors such a “single-payer” approach to health insurance, according to Pew. That’s a 5 percentage point rise since January and 12 points since 2014.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2017/07/25/page-trumpcare-makes-single-payer-sound-great/103979098/
The Millennials will likely get er done within 10 years,
ReplyDeleteI was unclear exactly what you mean hear? No American alive has any experience with an actual free-market health care system. I think the insurance industry smiles today. It would be better if differing political opinions of medical insurance would consider reasonable reconciliation rather being "CHUMPS" to our most able insurance providers.
ReplyDeleteSo upon what halcyon era do we fix our sights on as the shining model for the future? As the NYT observes, " At the end of the day, their only coherent argument for excising the health care law was because they said they would for seven years."
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For Trump, this has never been about improving our health-care system. Trump, who visibly had no idea how the ACA works or what was in the various GOP replacements, and who openly said he would sign whatever Republicans put in front of him, just wanted to boast of a “win” while triumphantly using Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement as his own personal toilet paper roll.
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Michael, I'm unclear as to why my very simple sentence was unclear. How else can I word it?
ReplyDeleteA free market begins with this fundamental principle: A good or service is worth what buyer and seller agree that it is worth. Period. No other entity is involved in that agreement.
Really sticking to that would make every aspect of health care "affordable" (a subjective term if there ever was one): routing doctor visits, tests, therapy, medicine, surgery, etc. And insurance.
Mr. Dings: That Pew poll just shows how dumbed down the cattle-masses have become.
"Routine doctor visits."
ReplyDeleteTo repeat what I said in the comment thread under the "Everything is a tread-off" post: Americans have to a sadly large degree become afraid of their own freedom. Taking charge of one's own life looks like an overwhelming task to a lot of folks raised on bureaucracy and collectivism.
ReplyDeleteI figured you'd roll out the cattle prod. I am not afraid of my own freedom, nor do I teach those in my charge and care to be so. I just want health insurance and health care. I went without for over a decade. Saved a bundle too. You lost. Now proceed to trash not only the current system, but all of those within it.
ReplyDeleteSure you are. You wouldn't be for single payer if you really embraced your freedom.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I had freedom from health insurance, scared me to death, but I was free, for over 10 years. Why? Because, double whammy, me and spouse lost either our coverage, our jobs or both. There had been a steady erosion of our freedom since we began working on the farm. As cattle, of course. Moo!
ReplyDeleteI'm in single payer now and I like it fine. And you will be too, soon, my friend, and I bet your spouse some years your senior isn't declining coverage.
ReplyDeleteYou can't ignore the key points of my position if you're going to attempt to effectively refute it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not talking about "freedom from health insurance."
I'm talking about freedom per se.
1.) Freedom to define for yourself what caring for your health is.
2.) Freedom to set your own priorities: Which health issues you're going to address immediately, which ones you're going to put off for a while, what you're not going to bother with, what you're going to budget for a given health issue, what kind of insurance you'd like to have.
3.) Freedom to change those priorities as you see fit.
Re: being on single-payer now: Sure, it's a nice arrangement for you, but it's not going to last. It's awash in unfunded liabilities. When it consumes the entire federal budget, it will still be in the red.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice arrangement for your spouse too, and for you, if you make it. So do you want to pay more then, or what? And how is it going to consume the entire federal budget? Oh, I know, when you and your ilk refuse to pay taxes I presume.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take your deliberate refusal to address what I said about freedom as a tacit acknowledgment that you concede my point.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't matter if I loved paying taxes. "Entitlements" are going to consume all the revenue therefrom by 2038.
ReplyDeleteThe only freedom that matters is the financial freedom offered by insurance coverage. I get sick, go to the doctor and/or hospital for treatment, the bill is paid. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ. The only freedom that matters is the choice we have about how we want to set up our lives - buy or not buy insurance, decide how much money we want to spend on health care (notice I said health care, which is a different critter from insurance), prioritize our health concerns, decide for ourselves how we wish to address them.
ReplyDeleteIf the subject is freedom, generally speaking, one must be careful about beginning a sentence with the phrase "the only freedom that matters." It can't be followed up with a specific type of application of freedom. That's so, because if the subject is then something other than health insurance, or personal finance in general, we can draw no guidance as to how freedom has any bearing on it.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what the policy realm, the question must be, "How can this be addressed in a way that ensures the primacy of freedom?"
I think the critter is health care insurance. Do not forget to read the policy completely. Maybe primacy of freedom is a little ways beyond the topic's scope.
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, think about your second sentence: "Do not forget to read the policy completely.' That shows it has everything to do with freedom. A person may, upon completely reading it, say, "I'm not on board with what it says in Section 3, Paragraph 7. Unless we can change that, we don';t have a deal." That's called exercising your power of choice. Freedom.
ReplyDeleteSo we don't have a deal. Good deal!
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