7 ms·
When it comes to Trump, that could be a good thing.
by Buge 10y ago
When it comes to Trump, that could be a good thing.
- threeseed 10y agoRepublicans control the House and Senate. And Trump isn't going to veto conservative signature pieces like repealing ObamaCare.
- Buge 10y agoDemocrats controlled the house and senate Obama's first term.
- vacri 10y agoThe first half of the first term. Republicans have controlled the House for the past 6 years. Interesting, isn't it? Presidents aren't autocrats. The Republicans play obstructionist politics, the people get pissed off at a government that's not doing anything, and then blame the wrong party. The do-nothing government that the people have just voted against? It's the government they've just voted for...
- Jaruzel 10y agoCan someone explain why Americans hate ObamaCare? Here in the UK we have universal healthcare (the NHS) which all employed people pay for via a special tax (called National Insurance ,or NI) - isn't ObamaCare the same thing?
- dagw 10y agoisn't ObamaCare the same thing? They are completely different. Obamacare has nothing do with universal healthcare in the UK sense, but is a complex system of mandates that dictates how private health insurance is bought and sold. Very simply there are three key parts: 1) everybody (who doesn't for qualify other government programs) now has to have private health insurance that covers certain things. If they don't get this from their employer, they're responsible for buying it themselves. 2) The government sets minimum standards as to what insurance companies have to cover and regulate what premiums they can charge for this coverage. They also forbid insurance companies from denying people coverage due to pre-existing condition. 3) To make sure that people can afford these mandatory insurance policies, they offer heavy subsidies to people who earn less than a certain limit.
- tree_of_item 10y agoOne big reason is that the popular term for the ACA contains the word "Obama".
- epc 10y agoI support the goals of the ACA, but the law as written is a horrible hack which tries to implement a national health insurance system, without actually doing so or calling it that. It weaves together multiple semi-separate existing systems, adds in significant complexity and uses the threat of an income-tax penalty to try to get people to comply. The system only works well if it has broad subscription across healthy and unhealthy individuals, but as implemented many of the insurance pools are oversubscribed with unhealthy individuals, costing much more than the income to the plans can support. In their attempts to lock in parts of the law so that an incoming shift of government couldn't easily change or repeal it, the Democrats hardcoded idiocies like a fixed date for the launch of the healthcare.gov website and features it had to have while leaving funding and development of the site a bit up in the air. In a nominally functioning government, the ACA would have been a broad, general law laying out specific goals, requirements and mandates for compliance, delegating implementation and enforcement to a new or existing agency. But in the "regulations are bad, laws are good" environment in DC, processes and requirements which should have been regulations (which can be drawn up and vetted by a bureacracy under legislative supervision) ended up being in the actual law, which can only be changed by Congress and the President working together, which all but stopped after the 2010 midterm elections. Add in the the Federal government is limited (by design) in what it can mandate individual States can do and you have this mess called Obamacare. I don't support repealing it, I do support modifying it to make implementation more flexible, but that is almost certainly not going to happen under a Republican government.
- yellowapple 10y agoRepublican != favorable to Trump. That said, repealing ObamaCare is one of the things upon which Trump and most Republicans agree.