Republicans Try to Play Hardball with Health Insurers

[mrt144]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-mismanagement-20170518-story.html

Don't like something? Don't have the political capital to change it? Bribe Private Companies!

The money shot:

At one recent meeting, Seema Verma, whom Trump picked to oversee the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, stunned insurance industry officials by suggesting a bargain: The administration would fund the CSRs if insurers supported the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“It made no sense,” said one official at the meeting.

Moderator Action: Removed "Step on Dick" from end of thread title. - Bootstoots

 

[Kozmos]

I like how draining the swamp looks like when you fire all the technocrats in charge of the machinery.

 

[mrt144]

I like how draining the swamp looks like when you fire all the technocrats in charge of the machinery.

I saw this play out on the episode of The 100 last night.

 

[Berzerker]

Obamacare was passed because of bribes to insurers, the swamp remains victorious

 

[mrt144]

Obamacare was passed because of bribes to insurers, the swamp remains victorious

I wonder if Republicans will invoke Lincoln 300 years later and Obama 150?

 

[Zkribbler]

Obamacare was passed because of bribes to insurers,...

Educate me.
What money did Obama give to insurers so that they would back his plan?
Did Governor Romney pay similar bribes to insurers in Massachusetts to help pass his health care plan?

 

[Berzerker]

I wonder if Republicans will invoke Lincoln 300 years later and Obama 150?

wrong thread, but I'm not a Republican

Educate me.
What money did Obama give to insurers so that they would back his plan?
Did Governor Romney pay similar bribes to insurers in Massachusetts to help pass his health care plan?

subsidies...lots of subsidies

 

[metalhead]

Check yo history. Obama wanted a public option. He couldn't get it because Trump's lawyer-turned-FBI-head changed his mind about it at the last moment.

 

[Ajidica]

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-mismanagement-20170518-story.html

Don't like something? Don't have the political capital to change it? Bribe Private Companies!

Eh, the father of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan famously said of the GPs opposing the NHS he "stuffed their mouths with gold" to get the NHS into law.

 

[mrt144]

Eh, the father of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan famously said of the GPs opposing the NHS he "stuffed their mouths with gold" to get the NHS into law.

subsidies...lots of subsidies

Subsidies are a, the lubricant of social policy. Sorry?

The Republicans didn't offer a subsidy, they wanted public political backing for their dumb idea by dangling money that the insurers were already entitled to through the very thing the Republicans were trying to kill.

It made no sense. A person there even said so.

 

[FriendlyFire]

subsidies...lots of subsidies

3% cap on insurance profits ?
No denials for Pre-exisiting conditions ?
Cannot drop insured when they become sick ?
Cap on out of pocket expenses ?
Uniformed insurance plans ?