healthcare – A Nod To The Gods

It Can’t Be Both

March 13, 2017 jeffli6 Comments 6 comments

Paul Ryan say’s his plan is the only plan, Rand Paul said it he was told it was a “binary choice”, basically Ryan’s way or the highway.

Listen, it’s either good or bad, you can’t have it both ways. Kind of better than Obamacare isn’t what we were told. Figure the damn thing out, you say you know what you are doing but I trust the GOPe as far as I can toss Chris Christie.

I want market based individual plans that cost in the neighborhood of $400 a month for young healthy family upwards of $800 per month for 50+ with a manageable deductible, that or give me pre-tax dollars to invest in a health savings account and promote cash medical services and hospitals so I can eliminate the fucking insurance middleman.

I don’t care about the lazy, non working inhabitants on welfare. I didn’t put them there and I shouldn’t be subsidizing them with higher premiums or penalties and if any of that bullshit is in the new replacement bill that will be the end of my Republican support.

It’s in your court you asshat politicians, quit bickering and get in a room with the best and the brightest and hammer it out.

Healthcare For Dummies

March 7, 2017 jeffli6 Comments 8 comments

I tried reading the GOPe’s Obamacare replacement bill. 123 pages of unreadable amendments and referrals to subsection what the fuck of page 950 something from the 2000 page ACA section A (F)-Amended D 2012 applying to taxable year effective December 31, star date 2854.

Only the government can write something so garbled that it would take a team of lawyers to read through it….bug or feature?

1 SEC. l13. REPEAL OF INCREASE IN INCOME THRESHOLD
2 FOR DETERMINING MEDICAL CARE DEDUC3
TION.
4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 213 of
5 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking
6 ‘‘10 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘7.5 percent’’.
7 (b) EXTENSION OF SPECIAL RULE.—Subsection (f)
8 of section 213 of such Code is amended—
9 (1) by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2018’’,
10 and
11 (2) by striking ‘‘AND 2016’’ and inserting
12 ‘‘2016, AND 2017’’.
13 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
14 (1) IN GENERAL.—The amendment made by
15 subsection (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning
16 after December 31, 2017.

They should write a version explaining each section of the act that a junior high school student could read and understand, that would give the average American an idea of what the fuck they are backing or fighting. This should be required of all laws or regulations being considered.

Right now all we can do is take a politicians word for what it does, and that should scare the hell out of all of us.

GOPe Putting Lip Stick On A Pig?

March 2, 2017 jeffli6 Comments 3 comments

If it’s true that the GOPe is planning on keeping the tax mandate and Cadillac tax in their Obamacare replacement plan they can plan on losing whatever conservative base they have left. They all campaigned for repeal, FULL repeal, not a replacement plan. I guess they are what we knew they were, spineless cowards. Hopefully Trump and his team will see through the fiasco.

House Republicans’ new version of the replacement bill is being kept in a “dedicated reading room,” Bloomberg reported, where it will be available to members of the House Energy and Commerce committee ahead of a markup. The move is an effort to prevent leaks.

Senator Rand Paul, one of the precious few voices of fiscal sanity in Washington, is not pleased:

Paul accused House leadership of not wanting to admit to creating a watered down version of ObamaCare, and demanded that they release text of the bill.

Paul later said he’s been told the House Republicans’ draft of the repeal bill is “take it or leave it.”