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riversedge

(70,299 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:28 PM Mar 2017

Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basi

Always remember that Trump was will to gut these important aspects of #Trumpcare--just to save face and get a bill passed today. #Shame!

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Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basic benefits. http://nyti.ms/2mZ07w2

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................After all the negotiations, passage seemed, if anything, farther away. Some rank-and-file members balked at the removal of coverage and benefits their constituents depend on. The president scheduled a late-afternoon meeting at the White House with members of the centrist Tuesday Group.

“We’re certainly trying to get to ‘yes,’” said Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “We’ve made very reasonable requests and we’re hopeful that those reasonable requests will be listened to and ultimately agreed to.”

As Mr. Trump pressed to persuade conservatives to support the measure, the changes he has incorporated have alienated some other Republicans who were already nervous about the bill. Those lawmakers have the potential to cost the bill vital support in the Senate.

“There’s a little bit of a balancing act,” Mr. Spicer conceded.

But he defended the removal of the so-called “essential health benefits” regulations, saying it would accomplish Mr. Trump’s stated goal of reducing health care costs.

“Part of the reason that premiums have spiked out of control is because under Obamacare, there were these mandated services that had to be included,” he said.............................

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Bowing to conservatives, Trump agreed to remove requirements that health insurance plans offer basi (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2017 OP

"we're gonna win so much you're gonna get sick of winning"...#AlreadySickOfWinning JHan Mar 2017 #1

Donnie just wants a "win" Thomas Hurt Mar 2017 #2

"There's lots of killers." dchill Mar 2017 #10

It would be brutally embarrassing if he doesn't underpants Mar 2017 #14

even conservative congresspeople would want to keep the ACA's coverage for pre-existing conditions renate Mar 2017 #3

No, not true, or not sure who you mean, the FREEDUMB caucus is insisting Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #6

I meant that if they didn't have gold-plated insurance themselves renate Mar 2017 #8

Exactly...we are so fucked up now. Republican voters are bound and determined Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #9

I want the media to say GOP wants to KILL Americans Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #4

If 'basic benefits' are not covered . . . fleur-de-lisa Mar 2017 #5

That's pretty much how I remember it pre-Obamacare. Vinca Mar 2017 #7

That's correct. Someone posted here once that Health Insurance Volaris Mar 2017 #11

I can solve this problem in less than ten seconds. NanceGreggs Mar 2017 #12

Its funny now but when coco22 Mar 2017 #13

JHan

(10,173 posts)

1. "we're gonna win so much you're gonna get sick of winning"...#AlreadySickOfWinning

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:30 PM

Mar 2017

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

2. Donnie just wants a "win"

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:31 PM

Mar 2017

He doesn't care how many people it kills in the end.

dchill

(38,532 posts)

10. "There's lots of killers."

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:43 PM

Mar 2017

"What do you think - our country's so innocent?" - Donald Trump

"Dead babies can take care of themselves." - Alice Cooper

underpants

(182,877 posts)

14. It would be brutally embarrassing if he doesn't

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 06:33 PM

Mar 2017

renate

(13,776 posts)

3. even conservative congresspeople would want to keep the ACA's coverage for pre-existing conditions

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:32 PM

Mar 2017

... if they had to live with the kind of insurance they're willing to foist on their constituents.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

6. No, not true, or not sure who you mean, the FREEDUMB caucus is insisting

Reply to renate (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:37 PM

Mar 2017

on taking away coverage, reinstating ability to use preexisting against you etc

renate

(13,776 posts)

8. I meant that if they didn't have gold-plated insurance themselves

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:39 PM

Mar 2017

... if they had to buy their insurance through the marketplace like the people on the ACA do, they would make damn sure that pre-existing conditions remained covered.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

9. Exactly...we are so fucked up now. Republican voters are bound and determined

Reply to renate (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:40 PM

Mar 2017

to get us all killed and I dont think we can do anything about it.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

4. I want the media to say GOP wants to KILL Americans

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:33 PM

Mar 2017

until they do, they are not doing their jobs

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)

5. If 'basic benefits' are not covered . . .

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:34 PM

Mar 2017

how does this qualify as 'health insurance'?

It sounds more like:

'Hey, schmuck, give insurance companies your hard-earned money and you get ABSOLUTEY NOTHING IN RETURN'!!!

Vinca

(50,303 posts)

7. That's pretty much how I remember it pre-Obamacare.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:38 PM

Mar 2017

We've always been self-employed and I bet we spent well over $100,000 in premiums and never met the deductible to have a claim paid. When we did need it, they raised the premium so high we couldn't afford it and self-funded for many years. We're lucky we both survived to Medicare.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

11. That's correct. Someone posted here once that Health Insurance

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:47 PM

Mar 2017

Is the only market ever designed by capitalism where the seller makes money by NOT delivering to you, the product you paid for. The ACA corrected that particular spasm of the Invisible Hand, and now the GOP would prefer the Hand go off its meds, so to speak.

NanceGreggs

(27,817 posts)

12. I can solve this problem in less than ten seconds.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:49 PM

Mar 2017

Introduce a healthcare bill that offers absolutely zero coverage and costs $50,000 a year in premiums.

There isn't a Republican who could resist voting for it.

coco22

(1,258 posts)

13. Its funny now but when

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 23, 2017, 05:53 PM

Mar 2017

Every company that survives because of these patients cease to exist,and they don't have client,patients customers,that grin will be smacked off of this assholes's face,MFKER!

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