Healthcare & Health Insurance Catch-All | GOP seeking a plan

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Mulberry Heel said:
IMO, America's healthcare system is simply on an unsustainable path, and is likely going to implode at some point as soaring premium costs and declining insurance coverage, combined with the GOP's gutting of Medicaid and other government healthcare assistance, will simply leave a majority of the population with no healthcare whatsoever, which will cause a national health/medical crisis of unprecedented proportions. Eventually even Republicans are going to be forced, kicking and screaming, to come up with something workable or face a blowback at the polls from the 65% of the population that aren't in the cult, and maybe even a few that are in it. In a sane world we would just adopt a system similar to what the rest of the world uses - say, like Australia's Medicare, which is similar to ours but covers everyone and not just people 65 and over - but given the likely resistance from health insurance companies and the GOP who knows what we'll get. But I do think the system as we've known it simply isn't going to last much longer, as the rising prices are making it increasingly unaffordable for more and more people, including most middle-class people.
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There are, in my opinion, several things in our society that need a major overhaul.

That is why I'm waiting for a comprehensive plan from the Dems. They seem to have learned a lesson, they need to prove it in the next two elections.

I believe it was pod save America last week where they interviewed several current elected Dems. I really agreed with the one guy (can't recall his name), but he said they need laws already drafted and ready to go after the elections, which i agree. Next they need some quick big hitters to help the people, then they can settle into more systemic and architectural changes, like fixing the SCOTUS, and making the guard rails enforceable. And we are gong to need to address the deficit and debt. As well as a universal basic income and AI regulation.

This is what I want to see. Real policy, real action.

Start building that momentum and then go after Healthcare. The money that is currently being spent it should be easy to show how money can be saved while increasing coverage.

I completely believe in equal rights and the rights of LBGTQ people, but we have to win to take action. The talking points have to be focused and the Dems have to maintain control, they can't get dragged into the marsh where the maga cult lives again or were all fucked.

I'm beyond ready to retire.
 
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Isn't it time for Trump to just put tariffs on hospitals and return the money to the patients? He can't do it to doctors because they vote.
 

Hawley pitches new health care tax plan​

The Missouri Republican is proposing making it easier for more tax payers to deduct medical expenses — and has pitched Donald Trump on the idea.


“… Hawley believes his new bill, which would allow all tax payers to deduct up to $25,000 per person in medical expenses, would help offer Republicans an agenda to coalesce behind while boosting the GOP’s affordability message heading into an election year. The bill also allows out of pocket spending on premiums to be deducted.

… Currently, only taxpayers who itemize can deduct certain unreimbursed medical expenses that exceed 7.5 percent of a person’s adjusted gross income. But Hawley said allowing families to deduct medical expenses in addition to the standard deduction “would make that available for lots of families.” “It could save people a lot of money,” he added.

… “This [proposal] while it wouldn’t replace all of the premium tax credits, it would get close if you structured it the right way,” Hawley said. “If we can’t reach any kind of agreement where it looks like nothing’s really going to move that will pass, I’ll make the pitch well why don’t we do this, why don’t we vote on this, so we can tell people ‘hey we’re going to help you immediately.’”…”

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This would be great but only for people who can afford to pay a $25,000 healthcare bill out of pocket and get that back in full or in part at tax time. It doesn’t seem helpful to folks who can’t afford their health insurance premium except perhaps to make a high deductible plan a more reasonable option.
 

Why Republicans aren’t eager to cut an Obamacare deal​

"No one wants a primary challenge where the accusation is: ‘You supported Obamacare.'"


“… For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.


“Democrats have to start acknowledging they blew it,” Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “Obamacare has been a huge disaster.”

… “The base of the Republican Party still yet thinks Obamacare is a swear word, so supporting it in that manner is just a bridge too far for most Republican members,” said Stan Barnes, an Arizona-based GOP strategist and former state senator.

“Who wants to risk that in any kind of deep red district, or even a swing district? No one wants a primary challenge where the accusation is, ‘You supported Obamacare.”…”
 
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