I'll bet I can predict the GOP health care plan. (No joke)

[JohnnyRingo]

Actually, anything the republicans come up with when the conversation turns to health care is a joke, but they'll deliver it with a straight face and I'll try to present it as a serious plan:

I know they'll come up with something that looks good on paper because I believe they want to campaign on their version of democrats' core issue. Key is that no vote would be taken on it until the loyal electorate re-elects the president and removes Nancy Pelosi along with the whole of Obamacare.

Having said that, I believe the centerpiece of TrumpCare will be the old republican magic potion. The one miracle cure they always turn to for affordable health care is "shopping across state lines". I never completely understood how that helps, but as it was explained to me, it assumes there are hundreds of independent insurance companies with wide ranging plans and varied prices. If one could look nationwide for their coverage, competition would lower costs to a few hundred of dollars instead of thousands. Of course that wouldn't happen overnight, and we'd have to wait a couple years or so to see the effects of spirited competitive bidding, but that doesn't matter because it's all nonsense anyway.

Next are tax abatements for lowering costs for prescriptions. Naturally, to spare the pharmaceutical companies any undue strain in complying, it would be on the honor system that they not use it for stock buy backs or CEO bonuses. We can trust them to do the right thing to obtain those lucrative Medicare contracts and this would further lower the cost of insurance premiums for the rest. Win-Win if nobody gets greedy.

The last leg of the TrumpCare stool is pre-existing conditions. Like the third leg of a milking stool this one relies on the other two legs to do it's job. With plummeting premium costs, those with dire conditions would be able to shop around for the competitively priced plan required by law that will be, again, in the hundreds instead of thousands of dollars. "Believe me."

Students who wish to stay on their parent's plan could so as long as they agree to a four year stint in The Space Force. ...and that's the punchline to the TrumpCare joke.

[TheFarseer]

1. The shopping across state lines

Ensures that companies can all go to the lowest tax state and extort tax breaks from states.

Also watch for more tax deductible bullshit like a health savings account.

[SharonAnn]

2. Some states allow "junk insurance" to be sold. It covers almost nothing. Other states don't permit

"Junk insurance" is much cheaper than real insurance since it doesn't actually cover much at all.
If you have "junk insurance" you probably don't know how little it covers until you need it. Then you're screwed.
GOP wants a race to the bottom.

[applegrove]

3. Like when they market anything adequate health care plans will cost

off the charts. Inadequate plans will be affordable.

[sarcasmo]

4. Bankruptcy is the GOP healthcare plan.

[Maxheader]

5. Trickle down health care...

The wingers plan will be to make it affordable for the 1%ers. The argument that a healthy,
happy rich person will tend to increase employment. For the rest of us...A bite stick and
a bottle of ripple will solve all of our ills....

[WillowTree]

6. I never understood the "across state lines" theory, and I was in the business for over 40 years.

Yes, you can purchase similar coverage less expensively in, say, Des Moines, than in New York. The largest part of the reason for that is that medical care costs less in Iowa, just like a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house costs less and groceries cost less etc. So of course they can afford to sell insurance at more affordable rates there.

If and when they bring off the "across state lines" thing, what's going to happen is that people in Albuquerque and Lawrence, Kansas will see their premiums rise, essentially subsidizing the rates for people in large metropolitan areas where the cost of living is higher.

[Fresh_Start]

7. I read it will be pay out of pocket or POOP for short

and not some shitty insurance, the best insurance like everything else we get from the GOP