Dick Morris reports… President Trump has the power to destroy Obamacare without even asking Congress to let him do it — and by skillful use of his executive powers, he can bring this terrible and ill-conceived program to its knees…
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Dick Morris reports... President Trump has the power to destroy Obamacare without even asking Congress to let him do it — and by skillful use of his executive powers, he can bring this terrible and ill-conceived program to its knees...
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While Congress debates whether or not to repeal Obamacare, the real question is whether to rescue it. The program is almost totally bankrupt as insurance companies find that the number of younger and healthier patients seeking its coverage drops each month and the risk pool becomes older and sicker — triggering higher and higher premiums. A self-destructive cycle is at work, and only a really determined effort by President Trump will save it.
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Our goal is to destroy and repeal
Barack Obama's "Affordable Care Act" — not to save it. But one after another, the health insurance companies are discovering that they cannot afford to offer coverage under the program unless they get federal subsidies. All Trump has to do is turn off the spigot. He doesn’t need to repeal Obamacare. He just has to not save it.
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Faced with bankruptcy and the prospect that Obamacare will have no private companies willing to write its policies, Democrats will have to take the lead in rescuing it. At first, their remedy will be the usual one — more subsidy. But, once they see that isn’t going to happen, they may settle down and get serious about bi-partisan reform of the program.
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Just because a law is on the books doesn’t mean that the federal government has to prioritize its enforcement. Trump should do with Obamacare what Obama did with immigration enforcement. The former president didn’t want to throw “dreamers” out of the country (those who came here illegally as children) so he didn’t.
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Obama just let the law sit on the books and ordered his agencies to ignore it. President Trump should declare that the IRS will not penalize anyone for not having health insurance, law or no law. The IRS has other priorities. Without being made to do so, nobody is going to enroll in this benighted program.
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All the red states — and those blue ones who are still fiscally sane — should apply to the feds for waivers to get around the stupid regulations in Obamacare. Particularly onerous are its requirements that all insurance policies cover everything from maternity benefits (even for men), psychological counseling, addiction therapy, etc.
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These regulations drive the cost of each policy so high that most people cannot afford them even with subsidies. Trump should use his statutory authority to grant the waivers so insurance companies can offer cheaper plans to those who want catastrophic insurance coverage only. Trump will have repealed Obamacare — and there's nothing Senators McCain, Collins, or Murkowski can say about it.
Dick Morris reports... President Trump has the power to destroy Obamacare without even asking Congress to let him do it — and by skillful use of his executive powers, he can bring this terrible and ill-conceived program to its knees...
Photo credit: Getty/NatENQ
While Congress debates whether or not to repeal Obamacare, the real question is whether to rescue it. The program is almost totally bankrupt as insurance companies find that the number of younger and healthier patients seeking its coverage drops each month and the risk pool becomes older and sicker — triggering higher and higher premiums. A self-destructive cycle is at work, and only a really determined effort by President Trump will save it.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Our goal is to destroy and repeal
Barack Obama's "Affordable Care Act" — not to save it. But one after another, the health insurance companies are discovering that they cannot afford to offer coverage under the program unless they get federal subsidies. All Trump has to do is turn off the spigot. He doesn’t need to repeal Obamacare. He just has to not save it.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Faced with bankruptcy and the prospect that Obamacare will have no private companies willing to write its policies, Democrats will have to take the lead in rescuing it. At first, their remedy will be the usual one — more subsidy. But, once they see that isn’t going to happen, they may settle down and get serious about bi-partisan reform of the program.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Just because a law is on the books doesn’t mean that the federal government has to prioritize its enforcement. Trump should do with Obamacare what Obama did with immigration enforcement. The former president didn’t want to throw “dreamers” out of the country (those who came here illegally as children) so he didn’t.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Obama just let the law sit on the books and ordered his agencies to ignore it. President Trump should declare that the IRS will not penalize anyone for not having health insurance, law or no law. The IRS has other priorities. Without being made to do so, nobody is going to enroll in this benighted program.
Photo credit: Getty Images
All the red states — and those blue ones who are still fiscally sane — should apply to the feds for waivers to get around the stupid regulations in Obamacare. Particularly onerous are its requirements that all insurance policies cover everything from maternity benefits (even for men), psychological counseling, addiction therapy, etc.
Photo credit: Getty Images
These regulations drive the cost of each policy so high that most people cannot afford them even with subsidies. Trump should use his statutory authority to grant the waivers so insurance companies can offer cheaper plans to those who want catastrophic insurance coverage only. Trump will have repealed Obamacare — and there's nothing Senators McCain, Collins, or Murkowski can say about it.
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