Don’t repeal Obamacare without an alternative

You knew it wouldn’t take long, and it hasn’t.

Bryant’s assessment also plays to many legislators who know all too well that that perhaps the single most hard thing for them to do and survive politically is to first extend a service to a constituent and then a few years down the road take it away. By and large, these are working Americans employed by companies that could not offer health insurance as part of the wage package. Pelosi said. “Do they want to go from affordable care to chaos?” But he does in some aspects.

As for the state budget, Cuomo said a repeal would cause a $3.7 billion impact and a loss of almost $600 million in federal funds to counties. Americans dependent on the insurance, and the health care industry, which warns that repeal could be disastrous without a substitute, should not be quaking because of the Republican vendetta on Obamacare. “Looking at our projections for where we’re headed, at the current rate we could see a third of all rural hospitals closed within the next decade”. The number is up from 2015 when 9,500 people enrolled in health care plans.

They noted that presidents from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton failed to accomplish a passable affordable health care law.

Despite the rout of Democrats in the election, which gave the GOP control of both the White House and Congress, the public’s view on the Affordable Care Act remains as divided as it has been since it was passed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats in 2010. They’ve been living in constant change for 10 years. Numerous bad outcomes of the law were not fully appreciated when it took effect, but Richard Foster, chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies, identified the problems with this provision right away. Republicans, he said, are moving quickly to gut the law because it is rapidly failing and they want to “stop the damage from getting worse”. The margin of error is +/- 3 percentage points for the full sample.

If that happens, it would set off a chain reaction that could cost America an estimated 2.6 million jobs in 2019 alone, the report said. There are, however, several key provisions in the bill that make my job, as a doctor caring for patients, possible.

Obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster for Democrats.

Like most of his Republican colleagues, state Sen. The Department of Health estimates that repealing Obamacare wouldn’t just hit state and local governments’ pocketbooks; it would eliminate health coverage for some 2.7 million New Yorkers, almost half of them in the five counties of New York City.

“It is crucial that by the time the repeal takes place that we have the replacement already in law”, Diaz-Balart said. The voters who have given them these electoral victories are becoming frustrated at their inability to pull the trigger. Repealing the exchanges without knowing what might replace them will kick the individual health insurance market into a tailspin. Celebrate appropriately. But remember, the president-elect has promised to preserve Medicare and restore the Obama-led cuts. Americans are being asked to settle for a repeal and then delay, without knowing what alternative Republicans will actually propose – if they ever get around to any sort of alternative proposal at all.