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What will trump care be like?

What will trump care be like?

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99percenter

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What will trumpcare be like?
 
99percenter said:
What will trumpcare be like?
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It will be terrific. You're going to love it. People won't believe it. They'll be so happy.


How's that for a Trump impersonation of a Trumpcare explanation?
 
99percenter said:
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Like he is now, seeing as he's over 70 years old and has already defined the kind of human being that he is.

This is fun! Give me another!
 
It will be re-branded ACA. They may make a few tweaks to it, but it will largely be the same thing we have now.
 
Likely, it will be something along a supplemental plan. You know the kind that ****ty employers offer that literally offer less in coverage than you pay in. Delivered pizza's for Papa John's as a young man, they "offered" insurance. Looking at the policy the yearly cost was around 1100 dollars. And the maximum benefit payable was 950, which didn't rollover. Alot of employer's buy into plans like that without realizing it's way better to have nothing. Obamacare actually came along and squashed those kinds of plans by forcing them to state in the policy it doesn't meet the mandate. Which kept small businesses from getting scammed.

I imagine Trumpcare will focus less on minimum amounts of coverage, and more on "benefits" that really aren't benefits. Like staying on parents insurance til your 26. News flash, no one who is 26 gives a **** about insurance. STatistically it's not cost effective for them to have it. And the cost of insuring a 18-26 year old from the insurance companies standpoint is downright negligible. That's why conservatives are quick to throw it up as something they'd like to keep, because it's practically meaningless. An empty gesture, meant to gain them goodwill for the cost of nothing.

And that is likely what Trump Care will consist of, empty gestures that will technically be healthcare but not actually do anything for you when you are likely to need it. You know who Obamacare really benefits the most? The stay at home spouse that's younger than their working spouse who goes on medicare. Either the working spouse has to stay on work insurance and eat the higher costs for themselves, to keep spouse coverage. Or leave their spouse in insurance limbo til they can go on Medicare. It's a very common situation, that bankrupts a great many people. Obamacare addressed that. I doubt Trumpcare will.
 
I don't think "Trumpcare" will be a name that'll stick...except in the spinning minds of the liberals, but who cares what they thing, eh?

The thing is, this won't be up to Trump. Whatever comes will primarily be a deal between Trump and the GOP Congressmen. But, whatever they come up with, you can be sure it won't be some 2000+ page monstrosity that nobody knows what's in it.
 
99percenter said:
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Cheaper.
Choice.
Care you can actually use, unlike having deductibles so high the health care is meaningless.

They won't have to pass it so we know what's in it.
 
What we had before the Affordable Care Act - subsidized emergency room care for the uninsured, financed by continuously rising premiums.
 
I have to vote for it before I know what is in it........Nancy Pelosi
 
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i doubt that the Republicans will sign on for anything other than high deductible, for profit HSAs. as for whether the pre-existing condition protection and the right to stay on your parents' health insurance until age 26 will be scrapped, i suppose that is still up in the air.
 
MrPeanut said:
It will be re-branded ACA. They may make a few tweaks to it, but it will largely be the same thing we have now.
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If those tweaks are merely cosmetic, then I hope you're right.

jamesrage said:
Obamacare rebranded.Because there are some RINOs who support Obamacare just under a different name and see it as something that should be mandatory like drivers insurance is for driving.

Gingrich: All have a responsibility to pay for health care - Video on NBCNews.com
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We can only hope.
 
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