They aren't gonna lower premiums in a repeal. They'll just pocket the $.

ACA has raised costs partially due to adding on coverage for sick people. Why is this so hard to understand?

thats how insurance works

Lol, the US economy was already the #1 in the world. There's nowhere for Trump to take it from there but down.


Also love to hear a single example where the US 'acting like a superpower' has ended in a net positive to the world. Iraq? Libya? Vietnam? Korea? Somalia? Please tell me, I'd love to hear.

This. It's like calling Social Security, UI and Medicare 'entitlements'. That's a right wing word that somehow made it's way into the mainstream.

Those are the kind of nonsense premises that need to be rejected outright.

Is that code for butt face?

Cohen said twice that there is going to be 0% tax on the first 24k that married couples earn. He didn't say anything about single people, but he definitely used that qualifier.

Premiums had been skyrocketing for twenty years before the ACA, you simply were not paying attention.

At least repeal would stop your premiums from going up anymore and since they are pocketing the last 8 years of false increases that should cause premiums to not go up at all for a very long time. So REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL.

Side note: healthcare in the US was a massive dumpster fire pre-ACA and most people had no idea. They just took it in the shorts each year and didn't really notice enough to think about it. There are all sorts of issues that aren't fixed by the ACA but the bigger problems associated with premium costs are based in other things.

As for note people being insurance causing premiums to go up that is cost shifting. Over priced care for uninsured was already taking place and everyone was paying for it. This is one of the biggest false narratives on healthcare. Do you think hospitals who treat tens of thousands of emergency room cases each year for free don't subsidize that with people who pay?

You sad the ACA was imploding and caused your premiums to skyrocket. Again based on what you claimed repeal is the best and quickest answer right now.

Ah misssed that thanks.

No, insurance is to make the insurance companies a boatload of $. When they can't do that, they go bankrupt or leave the marketplace. See what's currently going on with the ACA. There's going to be places with 0 coverage next year.

R plan is worse, but this narrative that it's all fine is not living in the same world I am.

Anyway, trumpcare is back.

Trump definitely knows you can't get away with doing one thing wrong but you can get away with everything doing it all wrong at once.

I'm pretty resigned on healthcare "reform" at this point. Let them pass this turd and lose congress in 2018 **** it

eagerly awaiting to find out how/if any of these tax proposals affect awfall999 before deciding if I am for/against

People are stupid and don't understand basic ****. Like most people legit think their employer healthcare contributions are going up because Obamacare. I've given up ever expecting people to understand anything about policy ever. We just have to win and implement ****.

Because they want it gone as much as the Republicans do. It's just that they don't say it because it won't appeal to their voter base.

GG NAFTA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/u...imes&smtyp=cur

Trump signing withdrawal order

Yeah he can't do that

Hey yo.

You can't really plan any of this out until you get into legislative language. Specifically where the marginal tax rates fall, employer health care exclusion, etc.
It's really just speculation.

As an aside, I agree with you all about the estate tax. While someone earlier said the cutoff should be $250k (I find that laughable), I think the current threshold is reasonable at $5MM, but I digress.

There's a good article on DailyKos about that today.

It appears he could.

A few of these.

I knew insulting judges would only be the start for him.

Exclusive interview: Trump 'absolutely' looking at breaking up 9th Circuit

Gotta recommend WaPo's podcast 'Can He Do That?' which covers the ways that Trump can and cannot expand the powers of the Presidency.

I have to wonder if this will be one of the future episodes: Can Trump unilaterally back out of NAFTA?

lol good luck with that

He's going around with a monkey wrench loosening and removing all the nuts and bolts holding the US together. It's mind bottling to watch. Like, my mind is so blown it's out of my head and sitting in a bottle.

As a Canadian, I'm fairly sure I have the authority to offer annex with the west coast states... and some of the northeast... and Alaska I guess. WTF, Hawaii too since they're not really a state, just a collection of islands in the Pacific.

If anyone is interested, just contact my buddy Justin, he can hammer out the deets.

Anyone with their eyes open for the last 18 years and half a brain would have realized that Republicans only plan to really cut taxes for the wealthy at the expense of the middle class, including the upper middle class which you fall into. But sure give us some more claptrap about the specifics.

you can't offer to annex. you can only surrender to those who secede.

A big fat power hungry dictator's instincts are to try for all 3 branches of government.