lawgator1
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Ok, it's time for the GOP and Trump to make good on their promise to repeal AND REPLACE Obamacare. They promised it would cut costs of insurance and costs of care.
Predictions?
I predict they will repeal the individual mandate. But they'll keep most, if not all, mandated coverages. Some minor tinkering with Medicaid. Won't lay a glove on Medicare.
The replacement will be some kind of across-state lines selling, and maybe allow a super slimmed down policy for disasters, without all of the mandated coverages. Super cheap but for 99 percent of buyers offering effectively no coverage at all.
Stocks of health insurers will go higher, and Trump will take credit, but within a year or two it will become clear to the voters that it's a pig in a poke, because the problem will once again clearly become that we have less people paying in via insurance, and more people using services via those of us who do.
Premiums for us, and for employers, will explode by 2019.
Predictions?
I predict they will repeal the individual mandate. But they'll keep most, if not all, mandated coverages. Some minor tinkering with Medicaid. Won't lay a glove on Medicare.
The replacement will be some kind of across-state lines selling, and maybe allow a super slimmed down policy for disasters, without all of the mandated coverages. Super cheap but for 99 percent of buyers offering effectively no coverage at all.
Stocks of health insurers will go higher, and Trump will take credit, but within a year or two it will become clear to the voters that it's a pig in a poke, because the problem will once again clearly become that we have less people paying in via insurance, and more people using services via those of us who do.
Premiums for us, and for employers, will explode by 2019.