A full repeal of Obamacare would completely
remove all of its components including subsidies. Declaring these subsidies as
a “new entitlement” that cannot be taken away is a bad decision. Obamacare didn’t work and all of it should be
repealed.
Healthcare costs are too high precisely
because of excessive federal subsidies and they won’t be reduced until federal
subsidies are announced to decline over time.
The question is: can ObamaCare be “defanged”
and then repealed after healthcare costs are reduced enough to allow normal
Americans the chance to purchase their own “affordable” health insurance.
Adding an amendment that would allow health
insurance companies to ignore the required coverages in ObamaCare should be
added to the RyanCare Bill.
Knowing that excessive federal subsidies are
the reason why healthcare is so expensive, the Freedom Caucus is refusing to
add subsidies to the current Bill. This bill is not a full Repeal Bill, but it
is a bill that moves subsidies from being consumer paid to subsidies that are
tax dollar paid. It also removes the taxes, fines and many job-killing rules.
Trump must believe that Ryan’s 3 Step process
will work and that healthcare costs will actually be reduced in Steps 2 and 3.
The Freedom Caucus has never seen a 3 Step process ever work in Congress and
they are raising flags.
Trump is a realist and knows that there will
be a battle over Steps 2 and 3, but AI don’t believe Trump will give up like
Reagan did on the amnesty and the wall.
The lawyers will scream if Congress tries to pare back malpractice costs
that are tied to defensive medicine. The
Democrats will scream every step of the way because they are committed to
advancing the socialist policies that created the problem in the first place.
Trump also knows how unconstitutional 80% of
Congress is and knows that most Republicans vote like Democrats. But Trump is
proceeding in a 100% Constitutional fashion by letting the Congress handle
legislation. Trump is supporting the Ryan plan so that tax cuts can proceed.
The restoration of the US private sector
market economy requires that we start electing members of Congress based on
their support of the US Constitution (as written), their zeal to shrink the
federal government and their devotion to restoring the free market economy.
I must conclude that Trump believes that the
3 Step process will work and the completion of Step 1 must come before tax
cuts. I don’t believe that Trump will
abandon any of his promises and will continue to make remarkable progress on all
of them in a short amount of time.
Trump appears to have the heart of a boxer
and enjoys boxing 15 rounds. His
experience as a developer has increased his stamina as he endured daily
problems with permits, sellers, funding, unions and a myriad of obstacles as he
transformed properties with potential into more valuable venues. I expect he
will succeed in attaining his goal to restore the US economy.
Trump understands that reducing immigration
in all of its forms is necessary to restore the US to “full employment” by
increasing jobs and decreasing foreign job seekers for all except the best H1b
Engineers and H2a Seasonal Workers we can find. He will secure the border,
deport illegal criminals and put the rest of the illegals at the end of the
line for citizenship.
Trump refuses to touch welfare and prefers to
lift the unemployed to become employed and lift themselves above welfare
eligibility limits. This is consistent with his approach to replacing
ObamaCare. He wants ObamaCare consumers to migrate to more affordable coverage.
Trump’s gentle approach to all of these
issues can be disconcerting to conservatives like me. I would remove illegals and refugees from
welfare to encourage them to go home. I would
ban Sharia Law from replacing US Law. I would quit the UN to punish them for
the global warming hoax and UN Agenda 21.
I would not bail out the health insurance companies who got us in this
mess.
I must defer to Trump’s judgement on his
support of the 3 Step repeal and replacement plan. I encourage you to do the
same.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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