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    Rand Paul Plan to Repeal and Replace Obamacare

    Paul, Trump upend GOP's Obamacare repeal plans

    By BURGESS EVERETT - 01/09/17

    After Rand Paul spent the last week urging the GOP not to repeal Obamacare without having a replacement plan ready, his phone rang on Friday night with a call from a new supporter: Donald Trump.

    “He called after seeing an interview that I had done [talking about] that we should vote on Obamacare replacement at the same time,” Paul said in an interview on Monday. “He said he was in complete agreement with that.”

    With Trump going out of his way to bless the Kentucky senator’s approach, Paul’s week-long campaign to hold a vote on replacing Obamacare alongside a simultaneous repeal measure has seemingly upended the GOP’s long-sought plans for a cathartic and immediate vote to gut the health care law. As news broke that Trump backed Paul's play, several other Senate Republicans were also beginning calls for a new strategy — threatening the trajectory of the party’s rush to repeal the law.

    Paul said he wasn’t trying to slow the process down, but instead said it’s a “matter of speeding up” the replacement efforts. He’s putting together an initial proposal containing the GOP’s best ideas and will ship them this afternoon to Trump’s administration after getting buy-in from the president-elect.

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    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...nd-paul-233351

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    A Health-Care Plan the GOP Could Get Behind
    by Michael Tanner - January 11, 2017

    The GOP needs an alternative to Obamacare. Rand Paul’s plan is a good start.
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    Paul wants to repeal Obamacare root and branch, of course, but he also wants Republicans to offer a replacement plan on day one. Democrats may block it, but then the political fallout will be on them.

    Paul’s proposal draws liberally from the best ideas in other Republican plans, while avoiding many of the pitfalls that make some of those plans unworkable. He would, for example, dramatically expand health savings accounts (HSAs). HSAs shift control of health-care spending from employers to employees. Paul’s expansion would allow much larger tax-free contributions to these accounts, and would allow them to be used for a wider variety of health-related expenses, including insurance premiums. That would mean that you — not your boss — would be able to choose your insurance plan. Expanded HSAs would also mean increased portability for health insurance. Because you could use your HSA to pay your premium, you wouldn’t be as likely to lose your insurance if you changed or lost your job.

    This would replace many of the subsidies in Obamacare without the dangers of government-designated insurance inherent in some of the tax-credit proposals that some Republicans have backed. (If the government offers a credit for insurance, it has to define what insurance qualifies for the credit.)

    Paul would also greatly expand competition and choice in the health-insurance market. He would expand association health plans and allow individuals to purchase health insurance through non-traditional groups, such as churches and civic associations. In theory, any person who wanted to purchase group insurance would have the opportunity to do so. And he would legalize the purchase of health insurance across state lines, challenging both the insurance cartels and overzealous state regulators, while allowing individuals to shop for the best price and quality they can find.

    Importantly, Paul avoids one of the most significant pitfalls of many Republican plans by not retaining Obamacare’s pre-existing-condition rules. These provisions, which prohibit insurers from denying coverage or charging more to people who are already sick, are among the few popular parts of Obamacare. Yet they are also the reason behind some of the most damaging and unpopular provisions, such as the individual mandate.

    Some Republicans are discussing ways to preserve the pre-existing-condition requirements as long as a person maintains continuous coverage, or creating an open-enrollment period during which the rules apply. But those proposals would still encourage people to game the system, jumping to more comprehensive plans or those with the best specialists after they become sick, knowing that insurers could not refuse them or increase their premiums. If Republicans simultaneously eliminate the mandate, this will only accelerate the adverse-selection death spiral that is already besetting Obamacare.

    Paul would eliminate the pre-existing-condition regulations altogether (after a transition period), while his other reforms would significantly reduce the number of people who genuinely cannot buy health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. For those who still need help, Paul envisions responsibility for covering them being shifted to the states, possibly in conjunction with proposals to block-grant Medicaid.

    This would give states the freedom to experiment with ways to cover people who are unable to buy their own insurance for whatever reason, whether pre-existing conditions or low income. Importantly, it prevents a small number of high-cost cases from distorting the rest of the insurance pool. It wouldn’t try to insure the uninsurable, but would provide their health care more directly. After all, it is health care that counts, not health insurance.
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    More: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...plan-rand-paul
    Last edited by Brian4Liberty; 01-11-2017 at 09:35 PM.



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    Rand Paul is off to one hell of a start this new term.
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    nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jllundqu View Post
    Rand Paul is off to one hell of a start this new term.
    And it's really a plus to see the incoming President agreeing with him.
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    Now the tough part, getting Rand's 'replacement' and not another doomed to failure intervention that will lead to public support fo Single Payer in 4-8 years.
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    This is a good sign!
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    The best part would be if it turns out the call did not happen. Troll level: master.



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    Paul said he wasn’t trying to slow the process down, but instead said it’s a “matter of speeding up” the replacement efforts. He’s putting together an initial proposal containing the GOP’s best ideas and will ship them this afternoon to Trump’s administration after getting buy-in from the president-elect.
    Nice.
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    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)

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    Any healthcare system that relies upon licenses, prescriptions, regulations, approvals, patents, and care mandates will ALWAYS depend upon the government for funding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    it's obviously going to have to be a political transition, not a full blown repeal and replace with nothing. This is a smart move for Rand to understand this and make sure he starts paving the way for competitive free market health care and not just another cobbled together special interest boondoggle.

    This puts libertarian ideas front and center in the public debate on what to do about healthcare.

    What is your problem anyways?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    Have you read his replacement plan? If so, what is your issue with it?

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    If the replacement law removes regulations and opens the market, then that might be less government.

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    threatening the trajectory of the party’s rush to repeal the law
    No $#@!ing around here...repeal this disaster, now, stomp a mud hole in its ass and salt the earth where it stood.

    There never has been a more dangerous precedent set before: buy this product or else.

    It is a tax on living.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    No this is a very valid point.

    Knowing Rand I am willing to bet that his "replacement" is 98% free market or more. He is doing a piss poor job of communicating that, as usual though.

    And lots of the conservatives are starting to buy into the narrative that he is trying to actually delay replacement.

    Rand is getting flanked on both sides, from the conservatives that don't think it should be replaced, and from conservatives that think that he is trying to stall and delay repeal. His communication is lousy, but then again, this is the norm.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    Hah, you're being ridiculous. Rand is replacing it with some free market reforms. He can't go to congress and say, "hey let's repeal Obamacare and institute some free market reforms" if he wants any of those fools to take him seriously. He has to call the free market reforms a "replacement" so that it is palatable. It is the best strategy for instituting free market reforms in our healthcare system. If you had a better strategy, then we would be seeing some action happening from your corner. But instead you are playing armchair quarterback and doing a really bad job at least in this instance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    Knowing Rand I am willing to bet that his "replacement" is 98% free market or more. He is doing a piss poor job of communicating that
    Um, ya, that's the whole point. Know your audience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    How the hell did you're obnoxious ass get back in here?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    No $#@!ing around here...repeal this disaster, now, stomp a mud hole in its ass and salt the earth where it stood.

    There never has been a more dangerous precedent set before: buy this product or else.

    It is a tax on living.
    Don't you think free market principles should be laid out now instead of leaving a huge gaping hole for the statist to rush in and fill with something just as bad or worse?
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    "The Patriarch"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    No $#@!ing around here...repeal this disaster, now, stomp a mud hole in its ass and salt the earth where it stood.

    There never has been a more dangerous precedent set before: buy this product or else.

    It is a tax on living.
    When most of the GOP is talking repeal, they aren't talking about yanking it out, root and branch. They want to trim a few branches and give it fertilizer.

    Repealing the mandate and leaving pre-existing conditions intact may well collapse the insurance industry, and the replacement could be single-payer.

    My anti-Rand bonafides should be unquestioned, but he's right on this one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    Don't you think free market principles should be laid out now instead of leaving a huge gaping hole for the statist to rush in and fill with something just as bad or worse?
    A valid point, but what I see as a bigger threat is the opportunity a "delay" will give the worthless GOP to mince, crawfish and backpedal on repealing this monstrosity.

    A monstrosity they created and their 2012 candidate put in place first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    No this is a very valid point.

    Knowing Rand I am willing to bet that his "replacement" is 98% free market or more. He is doing a piss poor job of communicating that, as usual though.

    And lots of the conservatives are starting to buy into the narrative that he is trying to actually delay replacement.

    Rand is getting flanked on both sides, from the conservatives that don't think it should be replaced, and from conservatives that think that he is trying to stall and delay repeal. His communication is lousy, but then again, this is the norm.
    He is improving though. He got rid of your ass.
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    Until and unless the Congress rips out all the legislation that protects big pharma from having to compete with drug sales from other countries, forcing hospitals to treat illegal aliens with no ability to pay and thus creating the need for hospitals to suck the financial life out of anyone shut out of getting insurance and thus negotiated rates, shields any and all medical providers from transparency and competition, yes, they damn well better have a meaningful transition for people with preexisting conditions. Many here do not seem to realize that without insurance that has negotiated rates, medical providers can and do charge up to FOUR TIMES the amount for a given procedure. So, once again, over many years and much legislation, government has created this scenario. If you truly want a free market, ALL of it has to be ripped out. Not just rip out Obamacare and believe that it's all fixed now.
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    I thought the whole point of his not supporting the current bill was about balancing the budget? I hope he brings that up as an ACTUAL OPTION during the press he'll likely get for this headline.
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    Quote Originally Posted by William Tell View Post
    Now the tough part, getting Rand's 'replacement' and not another doomed to failure intervention that will lead to public support fo Single Payer in 4-8 years.
    I think this is where we finally see Rand's support of Mitch McConnell finally pay a dividend. If not now, I don't know when.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?

    Is there anything less libertarian than a federal government controlling the health care sector?

    (Don't bother to answer, all the people with integrity abandoned this place long ago, and I have zero respect for the legions of hypocrites left.)
    The one thing the federal government actually has a right to do under the commerce clause is to stop states from interfering with interstate commerce. State laws that bar insurance companies from competing across state lines do just that. Also the tax code should be changed (scrapped really, but that's a fight for another day) so that health care expenses are "above the line" deductible. In other words you should get a dollar for dollar reduction in your tax burden for every dollar spent on healthcare, whether that is for paying your deductible, paying your premium, or just simply paying your doctor outright. And yes, the mandate should be sh&^canned.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thoughtomator View Post
    Suddenly, nobody has a problem with the federal government being involved where it shouldn't be, because Rand.

    Isn't anyone here libertarian enough to wonder what Rand's justification for having a replacement is, when the Constitution could not be clearer that control over health care is not among the powers delegated to the federal government?
    ...
    Yes, because Rand. Some of us have hope that Rand having influence here will result in a better outcome than other options that come from crony politicians and their lobbyist masters. On the surface, a no nonsense repeal sounds good, but this is also an opportunity to do things that open up competition.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rudeman View Post
    Have you read his replacement plan? If so, what is your issue with it?
    You have to pass it before you can see what is in it.

    I believe Rand is pushing for a more open process right now.

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    ...Knowing Rand I am willing to bet that his "replacement" is 98% free market or more.
    ...
    Which is why some of us see this as a step in the right direction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jonhowe View Post
    I thought the whole point of his not supporting the current bill was about balancing the budget? I hope he brings that up as an ACTUAL OPTION during the press he'll likely get for this headline.
    The amendment he gave to the bill allows congress to repeal obamacare at a future date and balances the budget. He already has the bills that have free market reforms that he has outlined to replace obamacare as well, several have been put forward and have consensus.
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