Since Obamacare went into full effect in 2014, 1.2 million people have gained employment in health care. Most of the jobs have come in hospitals and outpatient care where people are treated for non-emergencies. Many hospitals, such as Harris Medical Center in Newport, Ark., have seen their “bad debts” drop substantially since more patients have been able to pay since Obamacare was enacted. At Harris, bad debt has been cut in half. That has allowed hospitals to expand services — and jobs.
Better here or NC thread? Just, ugh. It's 1/6 of the economy!
The system collapses without the mandate.
Collapse the system then the dems will have to come to the table to get it back. The ART of the deal.
Supposedly, there is a #4 "plan". It will only get rid of individual and business mandates and one or two other things.
Collapse the system then the dems will have to come to the table to get it back. The ART of the deal.
The CBO has already scored a very similar plan to the "skinny repeal" of the mandate back in 2016. 15 million people lose insurance and premiums spike 20%. LINK
Also important to note that this plan actually keeps in place all of the ACAs insurance regs.
The Democrats will absolutely not do anything to work with Republicans on this after the past 8+ years of the reverse, nor should they.
So you don't hold your elected officials to a higher standard. Interesting position.
I think they're trying to save money because we're broke.
I don't think killing people off by leaving millions more uninsured than are right now is an acceptable proposition.
Republicans don't really care about the deficit, as they continue to run up the deficit when they are in office. They just don't want Democrats spending money.