Obama Is Skeptical That Trump, House GOP Will Repeal Obamacare

President-elect Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and many members of Congress appear to be rushing headlong into dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

That means, when Obamacare is repealed, Congress and the president will have to restore Medicare funding to hospitals. Lamar Alexander has said, “Congress should replace and repeal at the same time“.

Using a meat-ax instead of a scalpel, Senate Republicans last week began trying to dismember the law without offering a replacement or anticipating how their efforts would affect millions of citizens insured through the plan. “How do you square that with that’s how the Democrats were able to put Obamacare in place in the first place?”

If these Trump voters could write a health plan, it would, many said, focus on keeping their out-of-pocket costs low, control drug prices and improve access to cheaper drugs.

Young adults will no longer be covered by their parents’ policies.

If a patient gets new insurance, it would cover a pre-existing condition only if the patient had held a policy during the previous 18 months.

Walt continued: “As president, he showed that effective governing requires careful deliberation, discipline, and the willingness to make hard and imperfect decisions, and he let us all watch him do just that”. In addition, millions were covered under Medicaid with federal funds under Obamacare, except in SC where your tax dollars were sent to other states that expanded Medicaid, like Ohio.

Revamping the nation’s $3 trillion-a-year health care system will be further complicated by congressional Democrats vowing to stop Republicans at essentially every step.

“Oklahomans have seen firsthand the devastation caused by the impact of Obamacare”, Lankford said. Certainly, the program they will inherit is much shakier than it would have been had both parties been working together on needed fixes over the years. Really? The latest Kaiser Health Tracking poll finds that three-quarters of Americans either oppose repealing Obamacare altogether (47 percent) or want to wait to repeal it until the details of its replacement are known (28 percent).

CNSNews.com asked Pelosi, “You expressed yesterday opposition to repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood through reconciliation”. I told my vehicle insurance agent that I wanted to buy a renter’s policy from him, and he said he couldn’t sell me one. This provision benefits 1,102,338 people in Arkansas, most of whom have employer coverage. Since the introduction of Obamacare, their costs have dropped dramatically. That’s because they’re not writing off as many medical bills racked up by people without insurance.Those losses could climb again if the Affordable Care Act goes away without an adequate replacement.

“NY State of Health continues to make it easy to get a good, low-cost health plan, driving down the state’s uninsured rate from 10% in 2013 to 5% in 2015, the lowest rate in decades”, said Donna Frescatore, executive director of New York’s Obamacare exchange.

Still to be determined is how popular provisions can be retained if unpopular provisions are eliminated.

JORDAN: Yeah, but what they don’t like is the things they were told that turned out not to be true, statements like if you like your plan you can keep it, statements like if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, statements like premiums will go down, deductibles will go down, emergency room visits will go down.