The number of people signing up for Obamacare is soaring

Congress should improve it, not repeal it.

As Health and Human Services secretary, Price would ultimately be in charge of administering programs like Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and presumably serve as Trump’s point man on health policy.

While much is unclear, including whether any new Republican plan will offer the same kind of financial assistance offered now to millions to help them afford insurance, Dr. Thorpe believes there will be something at least for some people. “It’d be a awful thing to get rid of”.

The Affordable Care Act has helped millions of Americans get health care, thanks in a large part to the expansion of Medicaid.

Donald Trump’s transition team says that the president-elect has selected Georgia Rep. Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services.

Republicans won the White House as well as keeping their majorities in both houses of Congress in elections last month, and are now busy preparing an agenda for next year after the new Congress is sworn in on January 3 and Trump takes office January 20. Other states are reporting similar successes and people have been signing up in record numbers this fall. He urged revisions of the Stark Law to make it easier for hospitals and physicians to work together to provide care.

But Obamacare also caused health insurance prices to spike among other groups, and lead to declining coverage among many plans.

To avoid political repercussions from doing away with the law’s popular aspects, GOP lawmakers, with the support of the Trump administration, are planning to set a three year timeframe on a repeal and replacement of the ACA, according to Rachel Bade and Burgess Everett at Politico. This is a mistake.

Price’s bill would also cancel the online federal health insurance exchanges.

“After the 2004 elections, Republicans tried to take the rug out from under seniors to privatize Social Security”, he continued.

“I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to make America great again”, he tweeted in a series of missives sent before dawn.

He later changed his mind on Medicaid, embracing the GOP concept of turning the program over to the states with a fixed amount of federal “block grant” funding. “We repeal things like the individual mandate, and we say that you should be free to pick whichever insurance plan you need, not the one Washington forces you to buy”, he said. And among those who want the law repealed, 38% changed their mind after hearing that repealing the ACA would allow insurers to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

President-elect Donald Trump is enlisting a trio of nominees with deep ties to Washington and Wall Street to fill out his Cabinet, including former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as secretary of the Treasury Department.

There’s room for improvement that could work well both for the citizens and the government.