i would disagree with kellyanne conway. be careful what you ask for, you may get it. if you cut medicaid and send it to the states, a bunch of part time legislatures like in the senator s state and my state are forced upon this thought of how do you restructure a health care system? well, with a cap on what you can spend on it, gee, careful what you ask for, you might get it. in other words what may be the long term consequence that i m concerned about as a conservative is the country realizes, gee, we have this thing called obamacare that maybe we needed to adjust, but then we ended up with this thing that leaves people without coverage or finding out they have lifetime caps. i can offer you cheap insurance if you let me cap the lifetime coverage for you or exclude
first, i want to explain what is in and out. tax credits, they are in to help people pay for insurance as well as expansion of health savings account and changes when it comes to how the government will cover medicaid patients after 2020. what s not in the plan? individual and employer mandates under obamacare are gone. that means the tax penalti that go with them are also gone. government subsidy that is pay for insurance, gone as well. what s going to stay the same? insurance companies cannot deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. they are not allowed to cap your lifetime coverage and young people can stay on their parents insurance until they are 26 years old. it looks like there s more to come. within the last few minutes, president trump started tweeting about his plans to replace obamacare. he mentioned getting rid of state lines, which was a campaign promise and allowing more competition between health insurance companies. he say that is will be part of
americans, keep the rise in premiums from what they otherwise would have been. do things like have pre the provisions on pre-existing conditions, the out-of-pocket expenditures, limits on lifetime coverage. all those kind of things if the republicans can square the circle on that. of course, democrats want to participate. the fact of the matter is, as you just pointed out, you can t do this without the mandate. if you take away the mandate, what you do is shift all the risk pools to the high-risk individuals. at that point, premiums skyrocket. nobody will be able to afford health insurance and everyone will go to the reagan law signed in the 1980s which will allow to you get coverage in emergency rooms, the most expensive part of health care. with what rick just said, with all due respect to rick s the weasel response republicans are giving when they say they re going to replace it with something but they have no idea what they re going to replace it with. and the game donald trump i
the broader benefits of health care and drawing attention to the website and the fact that three days after the deadline the site has serious issues. today s event is just about to get started, right? we have a bit of time before it gets started, but with all of the focus on the website the folks want to turn to the attention of why obamacare was passed in the first place and n the idea of providing lifetime coverage. one person said there are enough benefits and they can focus on a different one over the next three weeks. what is absolutely the case is that private sector does some things very well and better than
popular. and that s what they re afraid of. if they thought it was going to be a mess, they d say bring it on. what s that tip o neill did when reagan came in. he said pass this crap. we ll see how bad it is. and i think when you have that kind of confidence, you don t get in its way. your thoughts. well, i think you re right, chris. they ve tried so hard to stop this for so long. 43 votes in the house, the supreme court, presidential election. the polling for the kinds of things they talk about at these state fairs like no penalties for pre-existing conditions, no caps on lifetime coverage, keeping your kids on after they graduate from college. everybody, you d think, would be for those things. and once people learn about them next week when there s these programmatic rollouts that are going to be taking place, people are going to get facts. they re going to see the price points on these things and they re going to be able to see the benefits of these things.