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Originally Posted by th14
afaict, a ban on denying coverage because of pre-existing health conditions is not affordable unless subsidies and the individual mandate also remain.
There is a reason that republicans are on like year six of repeal and replace and never got further than repeal.
There was a good article I read, maybe going back to Romney's days of saying they will repeal and replace if elected.
Its been tried over and over and they keep getting one of three outcomes:
1, they manage to just create obamacare by accident and need to start over
2, they need to keep one of the unkeepable ideas (for them) like the mandate to make it work and need to start over
3, they realise they created a significantly worse that people wouldn't accept and need to start over
Trumps team will need to actually accept one of those three outcomes. Maybe they just keep the bulk of the aca, give it a new name and call it progress. Maybe they replace most but keep something they hate to make it work like the mandate and shrug at their tea party supporters hoping they are distracted enough to ignore it. Maybe they create something much worse and hope they can sell worse as being better because of vague notions like freedom.
I think the third will happen. They tear it up, deregulate, allow selling across state lines and create a race to the bottom and claim because it is free capitalism worse is actually better.
No way America keeps the good stuff from the aca if they will actually replace. It just can't happen. Certainly pre existing conditions is off the table.