Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?
I recently received a “Truth About Republicans Survey” which asks me a whole bunch of questions about topics the National Republican Congressional Committee thinks are important. And then it asks me for money, of course. Which they are not going to get because one very important issue is missing:
Where in this survey is a question about restoring our ability to purchase health insurance? The closest is question 14, which, given how they literally left out any question about their number one promise over the last seven years, I’m surprised they included.
In good news, the Senate today added the Cruz-Lee Consumer Freedom Option to the Senate version of the repeal. Given the intransigence of Republicans on living up to their past promises, this may be the best option to reduce the cost of health insurance and health care after the ACA caused them to skyrocket.
In response to 2017 in Photos: For photos, memes, and perhaps other quick notes sent from my mobile device or written on the fly during 2017.
- No ‘Freedom Option’ in the Revised Senate Health Care Bill: Michael F. Cannon at The Cato Institute
- “This draft imposes ObamaCare’s ‘single risk pool’ price controls on ‘freedom option’ plans. Long story short, that means there is no ‘freedom option’ in this bill. Insurers probably would not even offer non-compliant plans. If they did, ObamaCare’s ‘single risk pool’ price controls would make secure, guaranteed-renewable health insurance impossible by taxing such plans to death.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Sen. Cruz's Consumer Freedom and HSA Provisions Included in Latest Draft of Senate Health Care Bill
- "I am encouraged that the revised bill ensures consumers have the freedom to choose among more affordable plans that are tailored to their individual healthcare needs, and expands health savings accounts so that consumers can pay health insurance premiums on a pre-tax basis.”
- Ted Cruz and Mike Lee Have an Rx: Deroy Murdock at National Review Online
- “Pro-patient reformers generally applaud this proposal.”
- Ted Cruz Gets Proposals Included In Revised Obamacare Repeal Bill: Tierney Sneed at Talking Points Memo
- “Proposals being pushed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), with the support of other conservative senators and outside groups, will be included in the revised Obamacare repeal language being unveiled Thursday… Additionally, the revised text will include conservatives’ request that consumers be allowed to use their health savings accounts to pay for premiums, a conservative aide said.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Truth About Republicans Survey July 2017 (JPEG Image, 237.4 KB)
- National Republican Congressional Committee survey and fundraiser, which does not include anything about repealing Obamacare, allowing health insurance, or reforming health care.
More health insurance
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare
- Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.
- How many legs does the ACA have?
- If you call public assistance insurance, how many people have insurance? The left wants us to believe that, like Lincoln’s apocryphal dog, the ACA has five legs. But when you call a tail a leg, that doesn’t mean the dog can walk on it.
More ObamaCare
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare
- Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.
- Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is “the end of health care”
- From the mouths of hypocrites, comes wisdom. It’s almost biblical.
- Economies of scale and government-run health care
- Economies of scale only produce lower prices when people are allowed a choice of service providers—including the choice to forego the service. Government-run programs do not benefit from economies of scale—in fact, scaling up will cause increased prices when the industry is run by the government.
- A tale of two negotiators
- If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
- Election lessons: Obamacare and how compromise works
- As Republicans work into 2017, they need to learn how negotiations and compromise work. President Trump may not be the best teacher, but he at least understands how to negotiate.
- 16 more pages with the topic ObamaCare, and other related pages
More Republicans
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
- As the founding president of the Republican Party and the man who guided the United States through the incredible sacrifices of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln deserves more than adulation. He deserves to be read.
- The cyclic transmogrification of the Republican Party
- From Lincoln on, Democrats have accused Republicans of their own failings: hate speech, violence, madness. And the more the left recycles the same serpent’s lies they used against President Lincoln, the more the left turns Trump into the new Lincoln.
- Two lessons for the price of one, for the Republican Party
- The Republican Party needs to stop trying to make it easy for the press to derail their primary process.
- You want your party back; so do Trump supporters
- You want your party back? So do Trump supporters. Whether Republican or Democrat, their party is either leaving them or has left them. They want their jobs, their religion, and they especially want their voice back. Trump promises to be that voice.
- The Parable of the Primary
- If Republicans are looking to be more Obama than Obama, they couldn’t have found a better cronyist than Donald Trump.
- 10 more pages with the topic Republicans, and other related pages
Remember: Trump reassures crowd after assassination attempt fails. (read more…)
Blogroll
- According To Hoyt
- Ace of Spades HQ
- The Anchoress
- John Hayward
- Legal Insurrection
- National Motorists blog
- The Other McCain
- samizdata.net
- Sultan Knish
Consumer Freedom Option Update: Or not.