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The PPACA Thread Part V: Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news!

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Kepler said:
AARP is 4x as lethal a lobby as the NRA. Only about fifty percent of men have small dicks, but 100% of both sexes are planning on being old.
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There is a big difference between what AARP staff want and what AARP members want. The staff wanted PPACA while surveys of seniors in 2010 showed that a majority of seniors strongly opposed it because it took funds from Medicare to finance its promised "benefits."
 
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It's too bad we can't get some historical track record for various experts' "predictions."

All the projections about the "benefits" of PPACA from 2010 were way, way off compared to what actually happened afterward. These blah-blah-blah "experts" we are hearing from now are just as likely to be wildly inaccurate as well.

They all assume that nobody will change their behavior in the slightest in response to changing incentives. the one thing we know for sure is that incentives matter. Logically, the one thing we know for sure is that all these "experts" are going to be wrong this time as well.
 
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One of the posters here, I wish I could find the original post, typified perfectly the problem we face:

"I want everyone to have access to above-average healthcare."


and it was said with complete sincerity. :(
 
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FreshFish said:
There is a big difference between what AARP staff want and what AARP members want. The staff wanted PPACA while surveys of seniors in 2010 showed that a majority of seniors strongly opposed it because it took funds from Medicare to finance its promised "benefits."
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IIRC the staff wanted it because AARP was going to be/is in the supplemental insurance market.
 
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FreshFish said:
There is a big difference between what AARP staff want and what AARP members want.
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This is certainly true of the NRA.

I don't know what point you are trying to make about seniors. The AHCA is about as popular with them as ptomaine.
 
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They all assume that nobody will change their behavior in the slightest in response to changing incentives.
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You say this a lot. I've never seen proof that they don't try to take it into account. Frankly, in my senior project for a bachelor's in economics, we tried to take everything into account that we could. I would hazard a guess the PhDs working for the CBO know a thing or two about modelling.
 
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Fox News had a debate. Repub and Dem Senator. The Repub Senator and the pundits believe health care is more sustainable under the emergency room model than Medicaid. It's an interesting argument. Basically they're throwing out right now that Health Care was in great shape prior to Obamacare.

It might work. People don't learn anything in this country from history and have the memories of insects.
 
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Slavitt is hearing the house is staying in D.C. All week to try and push the bill through after senate.
This could be law in a week.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Slavitt is hearing the house is staying in D.C. All week to try and push the bill through after senate.
This could be law in a week.
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July 4th was their self imposed deadline...zero percent chance a GOP senator makes the choice to be the vote that stops it from becoming law.

This will be great...all those businesses that cant afford full time workers will be dumping tons into hiring new full time workers right?
 
Handyman said:
July 4th was their self imposed deadline...zero percent chance a GOP senator makes the choice to be the vote that stops it from becoming law.

This will be great...all those businesses that cant afford full time workers will be dumping tons into hiring new full time workers right?
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Nope. We need deeper tax cuts first.
 
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I was speaking with a doctor the other day. His impression is that the bill does absolutely nothing to correct any problems in healthcare and in fact makes things worse. He is convinced that the only thing the Republicans are trying to do is 1) give tax breaks to the wealthy and 2) be able to say "see we did something".
 
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BassAle said:
I was speaking with a doctor the other day. His impression is that the bill does absolutely nothing to correct any problems in healthcare and in fact makes things worse. He is convinced that the only thing the Republicans are trying to do is 1) give tax breaks to the wealthy and 2) be able to say to the rubes, "see we repealed that nasty Obamacare".
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BassAle said:
I was speaking with a doctor the other day. His impression is that the bill does absolutely nothing to correct any problems in healthcare and in fact makes things worse. He is convinced that the only thing the Republicans are trying to do is 1) give tax breaks to the wealthy and 2) be able to say "see we did something".
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That appears to be the consensus across the board. Interesting bill for Mitch and Ryan. There's nothing conservative about it. It's just a big tax break. It even fails on repeal cause it's just a partial repeal.

It does accomplish their only reason for being though. More money for the 1% and the excuse that every tax break is going to do that because the 1% pay all the taxes. It's a beautiful scheme if you can get it.
 
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I just want to see which Senator pulls an Upton and writes some band-aid to get to 50 votes and what they get for it.
 
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I just want to see which Senator pulls an Upton and writes some band-aid to get to 50 votes and what they get for it.
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I think it's multiple. They'll all pretend to be holding out for something, make a few amendments, then go home a "hero."
 
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I read an article about how the GOP Senators from Maryland and West Virginia wanted $45 billion to fight the opiod crisis...and the bill gave them $2 billion. Normally I would think that would be the sticking point but zero percent chance they hold up the bill on account of that when the vote is called.
 
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Handyman said:
I read an article about how the GOP Senators from Maryland and West Virginia wanted $45 billion to fight the opiod crisis...and the bill gave them $2 billion. Normally I would think that would be the sticking point but zero percent chance they hold up the bill on account of that when the vote is called.
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Although it is an excuse. The thing is, the leadership and Trump need something they can call a win, but the rank and file have to worry about getting sh-tcanned by their voters when they all lose their health insurance. What better reason to "after much agonizing thought I must regretfully..." buck the party than because you "can not stand idly by while our great, great American people are denied life-saving" payola?

I assume this sort of scenario is replicated across the entire GOP caucus and it only takes four "country over party" (in reality, "self over everything") gestures to stop El Stinko Care in its tracks.
 
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Kepler said:
Although it is an excuse. The thing is, the leadership and Trump need something they can call a win, but the rank and file have to worry about getting sh-tcanned by their voters when they all lose their health insurance. What better reason to "after much agonizing thought I must regretfully..." buck the party than because you "can not stand idly by while our great, great American people are denied life-saving" payola?

I assume this sort of scenario is replicated across the entire GOP caucus and it only takes four "country over party" (in reality, "self over everything") gestures to stop El Stinko Care in its tracks.
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Most Trumpsters don't think they're going to lose their healthcare under this plan. Even if they do it's fine, because they're sticking it to "the lazy freeloaders who don't work", and the AHCA will allow them to buy a better plan directly from the insurance companies. That is what they believe.

So, the Congresscritters in this predicament are likely more damned if they don't vote for this turd, than if they do.
 
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