There are lots of things wrong with
RyanCare.
It continues to subsidize healthcare for
illegals and refugees and it isn’t clear that insurance companies will be able
to offer low cost cafeteria type policies if it passes. It would not decrease
the cost of healthcare. It would simply transfer the cost shifting for the sick
and poor from the consumer to the federal government.
The opponents of RyanCare are correct. If
it passes, it could be the basis of permanent federal law with all of its flaws
and costs. Opponents won the amendment
to remove Obamacare mandated coverage.
Now they want to allow insurance companies to impose lifetime caps and
raise prices based on usage and reform tort law to reduce malpractice lawsuit
costs.
The US House should take the current
RyanCare Bill to the floor for amendments to see if they can make it worth
passing.
If the US House cannot pass anything, it
could send the old Repeal Bill to the Senate to use the nuclear option to pass
it with 51 votes.
If Congress fails to pass anything, they
could also just let Obamacare fall apart as more insurance companies back out.
The cleanest approach would be to simply
repeal Obamacare in its entirety to remove future challenges to future
changes. Then a simple bill allowing
insurance to sell across State lines could follow. It should also include health savings
accounts. This would allow consumers to take control. This approach would remove the “supreme
power” Tom Price at HHS currently has under Obamacare.
There is no reason for Congress to retain
any aspects of Obamacare. A simple
“repeal” should bring us back to what we had before Obamacare. There is no reason to believe that voters
want to keep Obamacare.
The federal government needs to remove
itself from healthcare completely. Moving it to the States is a start, but
States should also get out of the healthcare business as soon as possible.
Many physicians have decided that
insurance has no future in funding healthcare.
If providers can handle the finances involved, they should be able to do
it.
If we see a significant decline in
healthcare product advertising on TV, we will know that costs are being reduced
and this scam is coming to an end.
The US GDP for 2016 was $18.56 trillion
and healthcare is 17% of US GDP, so we are spending $3.16 trillion a year on healthcare. That is double what it should be.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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