Say it ain't So Miss House Majority Leader

Say it ain't So Miss House Majority Leader

http://washingtonexaminer.com/gop-finds-unwinding-obamacare-vexing-now-that-its-taken-root/article/2546213


"Given that, Levin concludes: "It's much easier to transition from a prescriptive system to a more open system than vice versa."

Perhaps. But the bottom line is that if Republicans somehow had their way and were able to move the country to a post-Obamacare system, the process would involve imposing a sprawling set of changes on top of the sprawling changes that have already occurred during Obamacare. Even if it were all for the best, that's a lot of change. At some point, fatigue will set in."

Perhaps we (Republicans) need neither to repeal or replace. As mentioned, A voluntary system need not repeal, it can both change to allow deviations from the current plans, and allow the ObamaCare system to self-destruct. As people fell off the ObamaCare bandwagon through executive incompetence, small programs can be introduced to catch falling citizenry, and allowing the executive to explain why they shouldn't be saved.

And the insurance industry need not be restored. It was a function of failed government price controls in World War II. Good riddance. The insurance companies were complacent in the fraud and cronyism of Obamacare.

Health savings accounts can be added, using the wreck of Obamacare to act as the insurance portion, to be signed for when needed. Ben Carson's setting up of medical savings accounts to grow as the individuals grow could be funded at birth. Maybe insurance by another name could be allowed to the acceptable plans.

Maybe individuals could opt out of Medicare and medical with an appropriately funded alternate plan. How many people now in Medicare expect it to be there when they are due to receive it. A plan allowing an opt out could save taxpayers money by reducing the Medicare obligation at fire sale prices.


Dave Farnsworth