But in terms of Obama’s offer, the reformers’ reaction should be that it would be virtually impossible to replace Obamacare with something worse.
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More than half of Americans, or 58 percent, say repealing the Affordable Care Act is important to health care reform, according to a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. “For Americans who have not yet signed up, it’s not too late”. That directly contradicts House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s plans.
“We’re going to use every tool at our disposal through legislation, through regulation, to replace concurrent along with repeal, so that we can save people from this mess”. Next, we can work together to finally find a replacement that puts people in charge of their own care, expands choices and keeps costs low.
The president-elect is meeting Tuesday in Trump Tower with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Rep. Tom Price, his nominee for health and human services secretary, and Seema Verma, his nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to discuss the issue.
“Amidst tremendous uncertainty about the future of the health law and big premium increases, marketplaces signups are holding steady”.
“Let’s get the patient back talking to the doctor and get the middle men and women out of the mix”, says Congressman Ralph Abraham; Abraham supports the president-elect’s plan. It’s the only major portion of the law that polls under 50 percent, and the public would cheer loudly for its repeal. Kentuckians continue to suffer from dramatic premium and deductible costs.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of ME is spearheading an effort with four other Republican senators to delay the process now underway in the Senate that could potentially end with repealing the Affordable Care Act. Even though Obamacare is a nickname for ACA, and they are the same freaking thing, most people said they preferred ACA.
Edwin Park, vice president for health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, predicts insurers will start canceling coverage in the face of billions of dollars in losses if there is no longer a mandate for consumers to buy insurance.
I hope Democrats will agree to work with us on developing a replacement system.
“It’s really important to get all the pieces right because there’s real people who are benefiting from this”, Mina Schultz said as members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives move forward with the GOP-promised dismantling of Obamacare.
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At least half a dozen Republican senators have proposed an amendment that would postpone the repeal deadline until March 3, giving legislators enough time to draw up a replacement plan to vote on simultaneously.
