Don't expect anything soon. It still has to get through the senate and the pubs might not want to own what happens if it makes it.

tonygraz wrote:

I think the administration has counted this chicken before it hatched. I think the senate has it's work cut out on this one. 🌫

Buckwheat wrote:

What I want is $3 penecillin tabs open market. I can get those in India, Russia, and probably Europe.

What drove up costs to begin with was that the FDA began mandating and deeming that common drugs were far too dangerous for the populace because a hanful of individuals abused them. You lower costs on medicine? You want lower premiums? Force the FDA into less regulation of free market good and I gaurantee costs overall will be reduced.

jjanecka wrote:

delta1, I still struggle with the (more and more commonly accepted) concept that quality health care is a right. Or, that everyone is 'entitled' to the 'highest quality' care.

For any other kinds of insurance, higher risk, means higher cost. I don't grasp why that is a problem in health insurance. For that matter, why is 'pre-condition' some sort of third rail. Seems to me that someone with a known condition ought to face higher insurance costs...higher risk/higher cost.

Seems rather fundamental to the whole concept of 'insurance'.

dstieger wrote:

delta1, I still struggle with the (more and more commonly accepted) concept that quality health care is a right. Or, that everyone is 'entitled' to the 'highest quality' care.

For any other kinds of insurance, higher risk, means higher cost. I don't grasp why that is a problem in health insurance. For that matter, why is 'pre-condition' some sort of third rail. Seems to me that someone with a known condition ought to face higher insurance costs...higher risk/higher cost.

Seems rather fundamental to the whole concept of 'insurance'.

dstieger wrote:

That's what Pelosi wants you to think. .. 😟

DrafterX wrote:

a lot of the angry rustbelt voters that helped sweep Trump into office are going to get crushed by this...

I have a feeling the Senate may keep several provisions though.

frankj1 wrote:

My man, since the election we've been hearing about how Trump's voters are going to rue the day.
Higher taxes. Fewer services. No healthcare coverage.
Heck, they won't even get the 72 virgins promised by Obama.

Time to lose that threat and step into reality.
Hospitals won't be unplugging patients and costs aren't going to triple.

tailgater wrote:

specifically the angry, under employed, unemployed, never-were-in-the-recovery rustbelt-ish voters who bought into the Reality TV show...not all of Trump's voters, but these poor shlubs...they are goners, and it is sad.

frankj1 wrote: