It Looks Like Obamacare Will Survive

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/12/18/looks-like-obamacare-will-survive/

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Dylan Scott: “Health care lobbyists are flatly dismissing the idea that Congress could actually revisit Obamacare repeal next year. Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) remain opposed to taking up repeal efforts. The party’s long-sought talking point of repealing Obamacare root and branch is probably actually, finally dead.”

“Repealing the individual mandate is a legitimate blow to the Obamacare marketplaces, but doing so won’t unravel the markets entirely. They will function worse than they did before, and premiums will rise. But millions of people who receive generous tax subsidies to buy coverage will not feel the brunt of those cost increases. The law’s rules prohibiting health insurers from discriminating against preexisting conditions remain on the books. Finally, and most importantly, Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, which covered upward of 15 million people, remains untouched.”


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[unblock]

1. given the mandate repeal and a few more years of continual sabotage by republicans,

they are certainly hoping it will fall apart by 2020, or it will be politically acceptable to kill it off entirely at that point.

like many parts of government, it needs to be managed by people who actually want it to succeed.

[onecaliberal]

2. When they get rid of the mandate in the tax scam bill they will effectively kill it

[MariaCSR]

3. No it won't, not once the tax scam bill becomes law

and eliminates the mandate. It'll be all but over.