The Republican far-left plan on Health Insurance Reform

[cthulu2016]

Some Republicans recognize that there are popular parts to Obamacare, and for political reasons may want to re-pass the popular parts if the Supreme Court strikes the whole law down, while skipping the unpopular parts, like paying for anything.

They really are dumb, you know.

By keeping only the popular parts they would be forcing insurers to cover the sick with pre-existing conditions without the unpopular mandate to ensure wider participation... a position far to the left of anything the WH ever contemplated. So don't expect it to happen. The health insurers will be sure to explain the problem to the Republicans.

"As one Republican health care aide put it to TPM, “I do think some Republicans are finally starting to realize they could be the dog that caught the car.”"

It’s an election-year strategy to mitigate the fallout if the Supreme Court grants them their wish and strikes down the law next month. The House GOP is weighing a replacement plan to reinstate its more popular components, such as guaranteeing coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions, letting people under 26 stay on a parent’s policy and closing the Medicare “doughnut hole.” The idea is also percolating among Senate Republicans.

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Republicans don’t want to be accused of throwing a swath of disabled people, young adults and seniors to the wolves if they succeed at scrapping “Obamacare.” But those fixes were made possible thanks to the unpopular provisions that accompanied them, most notably the individual mandate. Forbidding insurers to turn away sick customers is ultimately unworkable without a provision to expand coverage to healthy people. Health policy experts — and policy-savvy Republicans — recognize this economic reality.

“I still think it is pretty tight and much is a result of some members not understanding the Republican POLICY behind how to do some of those same things (the health care law) does without using a mandate or 2,700 pages to do so,” the former GOP aide said in an email.

In other words, Republicans are offering voters an implausibly rosy proposition: Enjoy the popular pieces of the Affordable Care Act but don’t worry about the unpopular components. But if the GOP actually tries to put that plan into effect, they’ll run into a world of problems — not least of which would be an all-out assault from the insurance industry, which will feel the hardest pinch from the GOP’s “have your cake and eat it too” proposal. That raises questions as to how serious Republicans are about the replacement plan.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/obamacare-health-care-reform-supreme-court-insurance-individual-mandate.php?ref=fpblg

[tosh]

1. They REALLY are that dumb.

[Vincardog]

2. I would support this reThuglican plan

[cthulu2016]

5. Yeah, I'm all for it

(As long as they're the one's passing it)

[Kablooie]

3. They want all the benefits without the responsibility of paying for them.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. More calling it like it is

Anything Prez. Obama proposed, they were to do the opposite. Even if it basically was THEIR original plan (as opposed to single-payer/medicare-for-all or the public option). The damn thing is that long because it uses PRIVATE insurers, just like they would normally want... yet they weren't allowed to "want it" because of the black man in office. Dumb asses.