Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Freeing up interstate insurance sales to allow for greater competition. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-rip-republicans-finally-plan-101500480.html

[geek tragedy]

1. why are you posting Republican propaganda here? nt

[brooklynite]

5. Planned legislation is not "Republican Propaganda".

[geek tragedy]

6. the author of this piece is Ed Morissey, a prominent Republican blogger

if one reads the article, it's basically cheerleading the Republican dismantling of the ACA

[yortsed snacilbuper]

16. Are you the censor here?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

18. You need to provide a list of Republican propaganda sites that we are not allowed to use,

sometimes it's hard to check them all out, I think it was on Yahoo, do you think DU should block us from reading things on the internet if they come from Yahoo?

If you provide a list, then I can make sure it's not a Republican propaganda and if it's on your list I won't post it.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

19. "why are you posting Republican propaganda here?"

I'm waiting for your list of republican propaganda sites?

[still_one]

2. Price is a qwack associated with an ultra right physicians group who are anti vaxers, and other none

Democrats should do everything they can to block his appointment

The yahoo link also quotes the washington times, a right wing paper

[Wounded Bear]

3. "Selling Insurance across State lines" is a scam....

pure and simple. They can already sell insurance in any state they want to. The only caveat is, you have to follow the rules of the state you want to sell in. This move just means that you only have to follow the rules in the state your home office is in. It's an end run aound the state insurance commissioners, especially in blue states that still have real ones that hold insurance companies accoutable.

Cue the race to the bottom in insurance quality and coverage and all of the scams.

[exboyfil]

7. Seems like an atack on Federalism

I wonder why Republicans support it?

[Trekologer]

9. Money

That's why

[Wounded Bear]

15. I know, but ideology trumps patriotism...

every time, especially ideology that pads the bottom line of the 1%.

[gratuitous]

12. That's it exactly

And that's why Delaware is the preferred state of incorporation for so many national companies, because Delaware's laws are quite friendly to rip-off joints. South Dakota got the credit card companies for much the same reason. The race will be on to provide the least intrusive environment for insurance companies to make sure they can collect their premiums and refuse to pay claims.

[TwilightZone]

14. Sorry, didn't see your post before I posted.

Great minds and all that. haha

[TwilightZone]

13. Agreed. It's similar to why/how a bunch of banks ended up in Delaware and South Dakota.

They were the most bank-friendly states. The same thing would happen here.

[Maven]

4. Race to the bottom.

RIP to what was left of decent health coverage.

[flamingdem]

8. This is a right wing upbeat view of the situation

There are better sources

[yortsed snacilbuper]

17. Is their someone on DU that can check links to make sure it is coming from an approved source,

this is the second time I've been attacked for a post I made?

[mythology]

10. That's not a plan

Most insurance companies already sell in multiple states.

If they mean lower the regulations to the state level, much like with credit cards, they will all nominally be based in the insurance equivalent to Delaware.

Also the primary drivers of the cost of healthcare isn't the insurers given the ACA mandates spending a minimum of 80% on patient care or pay the difference back.

[dawg]

11. More like: Individual Insurance Market RIP

Price's plan will set into motion a death spiral that will eventually collapse the market for individual health insurance plans. As the pool gets sicker and sicker, the plans become less and less affordable. More healthy people drop out due to lack of affordability, and then the process repeats.

Hopefully, I'll be able to put my entire family on my company payroll and cover them through a group plan. But I have no idea how ordinary families are going to manage.

[pnwmom]

20. That isn't a plan and it isn't new. And no one wants to compete across

state lines for older and sicker patients. This idea won't solve that problem.

[BlueProgressive]

21. If 40 million people lose health insurance which they couldn't afford

until Obamacare, that doesn't seem like a winner for the Republican party...