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| A doctor’s straight talk: America, your health care is not a federal responsibility; Insurance will sell across state lines | |
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| Katoblue | Jul 30 2017, 10:31 AM Post #1 |
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Trump needs to give all healthcare back to the states.. it was never a federal issue.. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/04/doctor-s-straight-talk-america-your-health-care-is-not-federal-responsibility.html There are a host of good reasons to “repeal” the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). “Replace” is an entirely different matter. Start with its negative effects on individuals and on our country. Americans are experiencing skyrocketing health insurance costs—premiums, co-pays, and deductibles—which is the opposite of what the law’s name promised: affordable. The ACA is wasting trillions of dollars even though President Obama initiated his takeover of health care claiming we had to “bend down the [health care] spending curve.” Supporters of President Obama’s signature law loudly tout its one success—an increase in the number of insured Americans. Regrettably, it did so by reducing access to medical care for all Americans. The ACA cut reimbursements to Medicare providers by $716 billion. States that expanded Medicaid under the ACA, such as New Mexico, were forced to cut the already low payment schedules to Medicaid doctors even lower. Cuts to physician reimbursements automatically reduce the availability of physicians. As Robert Moffitt of Heritage Foundation testified before Congress in 2009, “You can’t get more of something by paying less for it.” More insured patients plus fewer available doctors equals longer and longer wait times. That is why 752 residents of President Obama’s home state of Illinois died: they had to wait too long to get life-saving care that was not available in time. This is called death by queueing, something U.S. veterans experience every day. ObamaCare has aided the growth of the malignancy that is destroying U.S. health care: a massive federal administrative apparatus and regulatory machine that diverts trillions—not millions or even billions—of “health care” dollars away from health care services to pay itself, to pay the health care bureaucracy. There is another, even more compelling, reason to repeal ObamaCare. Health care is not the fed’s job! Providing health care is not a federal responsibility according to the U.S. Constitution and the Medicaid law. The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States [the federal government] … are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” As the Constitution does not grant control of health care to Washington, health care should be “reserved to the States.” The original 1965 Medicaid law created a “jointly funded, state administered” program. Note the phrase state administered. Over five decades, the federal government has gradually taken control of every aspect of supposedly state-run Medicaid programs. Not only should the states control health care within their borders according to the Constitution, but the Medicaid law also explicitly legislated local, i.e., state, control of each program. READ ON Edited by Katoblue, Jul 30 2017, 10:33 AM.
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| Killary, DNC, Obummer's DOJ and FBI all Lied and Spied and Good People Died! | |
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| Opinionated | Jul 30 2017, 11:05 AM Post #2 |
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It is if we decide to make it a federal responsibility. |
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| Katoblue | Jul 30 2017, 11:25 AM Post #3 |
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well it failed.. as Romney said it would.. it will go back to the states and people will have to be responsible for their own insurance again and can buy insurance across state lines making it cheaper.. it is a state issue for a reason.. that's why Obamanotcare failed so miserably.. states like Mass has proved Medicaid works at state level for healthcare not at the federal level.. Medicaid will go back to the states and each state can create their own healthcare programs just like Mass.. then then poor and middle class and rich can all be covered.. |
| Killary, DNC, Obummer's DOJ and FBI all Lied and Spied and Good People Died! | |
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| coverpoint | Jul 30 2017, 12:21 PM Post #4 |
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Medicaid in Massachusetts, like Medicaid in every state, is paid for by federal taxes. Under Obamacare, states have the ability to regulate Medicaid. In fact, many Republican controlled states have refused the expansion of Medicaid. Georgia, Maine, Wyoming have state laws that allow for the purchase of health insurance across state lines. Obamacare even encourages this. Medicare Advantage insurance is universally sold across state lines. As it turns out, neither insurance companies nor states want to participate. |
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| Opinionated | Jul 30 2017, 12:24 PM Post #5 |
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It hasn't failed yet. Sure, there are problems. But those problems could be addressed. Instead, Republicans have done all that they can to ensure that it fails so they can claim that government solutions don't work. Except anyone with two eyes can see that the problem isn't primarily that Obamacare can't work, but that Republicans won't let it work. |
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| Harambe4Trump | Jul 30 2017, 12:26 PM Post #6 |
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Let's be frank- healthcare is a political hot potato that no one wants to end up holding because there are no good solutions, only less bad alternatives. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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