The first mistake was to insist that
Obamacare be repealed and replaced immediately. This prompted Paul Ryan to lift
most of Obamacare into RyanCare.
Repealing Obamacare should free consumers and insurance companies and
providers to get rid of the Obamacare straightjacket and return to healthcare
as it was in 2008, before Obamacare.
The cry for all Republicans to vote for
the RyanCare Bill is suicidal. If the
votes are not there, the RyanCare Bill should be abandoned. It is complicated and has too many moving
parts. It isn’t clear why the Senate
couldn’t use the nuclear option on a simple Obamacare “repeal” Bill.
Trump should have warned voters how messy
this could get.
Trying to begin the repeal/replace process
using “Reconciliation” to get it passed in the Senate with 51 votes makes no
sense if the Senate could use the nuclear option.
Medicare reform is included in RyanCare,
but we don’t know what changes.
RyanCare includes a provision for States
to receive $15 billion to pay for patient’s medical bills.
Mental health funding is in question, but
should be an option to pick and should have its own limits imposed by insurance
companies, like a mental health lifetime max.
The 30% penalty insurance companies would
charge for pre-existing conditions is in RyanCare.
Reducing malpractice cost is its own
battle and should be in a separate bill.
The facts need to be laid out, so that voters know what is at stake. The
first option is to ban civil malpractice suits and let the medical associations
handle cases. This would be a battle between lawyers and consumers. RyanCare doesn’t address this.
Resistance to RyanCare will not dissuade
the House from passing tax reform.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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