Trump admin doesnt like the ACA, until it does

[blackangst1]

So it appears nine states that run their own exchanges have opened up enrollment in the midst of all the layoffs due to COVID19. Looks like the Trump admin is also considering it. Will be interesting to see!

Trump Administration Considering Opening Obamacare Enrollment Amid Pandemic

As the administration backs a court fight to kill the Affordable Care Act, officials suddenly realize Americans need health insurance now.

www.yahoo.com

 

[hal2kilo]

So it appears nine states that run their own exchanges have opened up enrollment in the midst of all the layoffs due to COVID19. Looks like the Trump admin is also considering it. Will be interesting to see!

Trump Administration Considering Opening Obamacare Enrollment Amid Pandemic

As the administration backs a court fight to kill the Affordable Care Act, officials suddenly realize Americans need health insurance now.

www.yahoo.com

This is hilarious, if it wasn't so sad.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Just imagine if we had universal healthcare and people's health insurance weren't tied to their jobs...

 

[Jhhnn]

So it appears nine states that run their own exchanges have opened up enrollment in the midst of all the layoffs due to COVID19. Looks like the Trump admin is also considering it. Will be interesting to see!

Trump Administration Considering Opening Obamacare Enrollment Amid Pandemic

As the administration backs a court fight to kill the Affordable Care Act, officials suddenly realize Americans need health insurance now.

www.yahoo.com

Open it up for this year, kill it for next year so we can have that marvelous plan they can't tell us about until after the election. Because reasons.

 

[soulcougher73]

Just imagine if we had universal healthcare and people's health insurance weren't tied to their jobs...

Imagine also if getting health treatment couldn’t bankrupt you. Crazy, I know!!!!

 

[blackangst1]

Open it up for this year, kill it for next year so we can have that marvelous plan they can't tell us about until after the election. Because reasons.

Despite what he says, I doubt the ACA will be going away.

 

[blackangst1]

Just imagine if we had universal healthcare and people's health insurance weren't tied to their jobs...

Yes because countries like that, UK for example, are doing so well now, right?

The UK has gone into full coronavirus lockdown with the public barred from leaving home for nonessential reasons

The UK has gone into full coronavirus lockdown after a surge in cases across the country.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[compuwiz1]

Yes because countries like that, UK for example, are doing so well now, right?

Their mortality rate is running close to 5% of those effected by the virus. The USA and Germany appear to be the lowest.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Starting to think all that "Death Panel" talk in 2009 was disingenuous.

 

[Jhhnn]

Despite what he says, I doubt the ACA will be going away.

It's pending before the SCOTUS & the Admin has declined to defend it. The SCOTUS originally ruled it to be constitutional on the basis that it was a tax, the individual mandate penalty. Trump & the GOP reduced the penalty to zero, making it not a tax, & GOP states sued. Don't want no gubmint dependency.

 

[fskimospy]

Open it up for this year, kill it for next year so we can have that marvelous plan they can't tell us about until after the election. Because reasons.

Their goal is definitely hoping that right wing judicial activism will kill the ACA so it’s not their ‘fault’.

The only problem is if the courts do that then basically the rule of law no longer matters in the US.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Starting to think all that "Death Panel" talk in 2009 was disingenuous.

Naw it was truthful, only it will be the Republicans who implement the death panels...if they already have not!!

 

[Thump553]

I was just wondering the other day if we will have to bail out the insurers, due to their heavy losses in the stock market together with the much higher claims due to Covid-19.

It amazes me that the states reopened the plans to permit special enrollment now, or that the insurers went along with that. Doesn't make financial sense to the insurers I would think.

 

[fskimospy]

It's pending before the SCOTUS & the Admin has declined to defend it. The SCOTUS originally ruled it to be constitutional on the basis that it was a tax, the individual mandate penalty. Trump & the GOP reduced the penalty to zero, making it not a tax, & GOP states sued. Don't want no gubmint dependency.

Right, but in the end blackangst is probably right or seriously we don’t have a legal system anymore.

The idea that an individual mandate that explicitly costs people $0 is an unconstitutional burden on people that must cause the law to be struck down because it can’t be severed from the overall law despite congress doing exactly that would be a level of magical thinking that we have never seen before.