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Post by mramerica on May 7, 2018 9:23:59 GMT -5
1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will effectively be repealed on August 1, 2018. 2. The following states (50) and select territories of the United States of America will be given a block grant totaling a combined $390 Billion for the next 4 years. 3. This block grant will take effect on July 1, 2018, so that each state and territory can individually create and reform its own healthcare system.
4. 1️⃣The following states will receive $30 Billion: •California •Texas *60 Billion* 2️⃣The following states will receive $20 Billion: •Florida •New York *40 Billion* 3️⃣The following states will receive $15 Billion: •Illinois: •Pennsylvania *$30 Billion* 4️⃣The following states will receive $10 Billion: •Ohio: •Georgia •North Carolina •Michigan •New Jersey •Virginia •Washington •Arizona •Massachusetts •Indiana •Tennessee •Missouri *$120 Billion.* 5️⃣🇺🇸The following states will receive $5 Billion: •Maryland •Wisconsin •Minnesota •Colorado •South Carolina •Alabama •Louisiana •Kentucky •Oregon •Oklahoma •Connecticut •Iowa •Utah •Mississippi •Arkansas •Kansas •Nevada •New Mexico •Nebraska *$95 Billion* 6️⃣🇺🇸The following states will receive $3 Billion: •West Virginia: •Idaho •Hawaii •New Hampshire •Maine •Rhode Island •Montana •Delaware •South Dakota •North Dakota •Alaska •Vermont •Wyoming *$39 Billion* 7️⃣🇺🇸The following territories plus the District of Columbia will be given $1 Billion each: •District of Columbia •Puerto Rico •U.S. Virgin Islands •Guam •Northern Mariana Islands •America Samoa *6 Billion*
6. Once the 4 year budget expires on December 1, 2018, an equal amount of funding will be granted to each state and territory as stated above unless this bill is (A) Repealed (B) Amended
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Post by PeaceKeepaGirl on May 7, 2018 17:41:54 GMT -5
I'll oppose either way but you should revise this to include funds for DC and the territories .
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Post by Wonderess on May 7, 2018 19:15:20 GMT -5
I'll oppose either way but you should revise this to include funds for DC and the territories . Is there any solution to the ACA that you would support?
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Post by PeaceKeepaGirl on May 7, 2018 21:44:01 GMT -5
Sure, but it would have to expand access. "Repeal Obamacare" tends to be a euphemism for reducing coverage and raising costs for the disadvantaged. The left tends to avoid using the language of repeal, even where our proposals would effectively supplant the ACA, out of respect for the fact that O'care is better than what came before.
Following the repeal of the mandate the ACA will probably implode in a matter of a few years, creating a vicious cycle of the wealthiest and healthiest buyers leaving the market, leading to higher premiums, leading to the next wealthiest and healthiest leaving, and so on until the system becomes completely untenable. But many of the remaining principles of Obamacare, including subsidies and Medicaid expansion for the poor and lower middle class, rules against discrimination in coverage, and medical loss ratio requirements, should be guiding principles for any private health insurance system, and I'm not comfortable throwing the baby out with the bath water given that I don't think the right is committed to maintaining these policies in any future plan.
Of course, the ideal solution would be Medicare for all. I doubt the math is on our side for that right now though.
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Post by Wonderess on May 7, 2018 22:28:06 GMT -5
I understand your concerns. Perhaps we all could create a truly bipartisan healthcare solution to the woes of the current system. I personally applaud the attempt to care for those like you said who could not get healthcare privately. The main condition I would have coming from the social right is not allowing public funds through the healthcare system to be used to fund abortions or the purchasing of contraception. I would endorse the mandate's current discrimination laws dealing with pre existing conditions and the like. Regarding universal public healthcare, I do not think this can happen through mandate but through public choice. The private industry cannot be forced to give up the health insurance sector. Also, the US would have to get over hurdles faced by other countries who use the universal system like Canada and the UK such as severely long wait times for specialist and the like. It is something I would be willing to work with you on, nonetheless.
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TheSpookyGhost
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 7, 2018 22:39:40 GMT -5
Great bill.
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Post by jztheman on May 10, 2018 9:10:42 GMT -5
I'm with PeacekeepaGirl on the part about DC and the territories not getting anything. I'll yay once they are added.
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Post by mramerica on May 10, 2018 11:26:40 GMT -5
I slightly edited the bill to include territories.
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Post by TheSpookyGhost on May 10, 2018 16:30:31 GMT -5
7️⃣🇺🇸The following territories plus the District of Columbia will be given $1 Billion each: •District of Columbia •Puerto Rico •U.S. Virgin Islands •Guam •Northern Mariana Islands •America Samoa *6 Billion* Northern Mariana Islands has a population of 55,000, which is less than most cities. Puerto Rico has a population of 3.4 million. I feel like these territories shouldn't be getting the same amount of money. Perhaps you could change the bill to give block grants on a per capita basis (citizens only)?
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Post by osouless on May 13, 2018 10:38:37 GMT -5
I can't get behind this bill because, in my opinion, this doesn't solve any of the problems we've had with healthcare, but rather continues fighting for a repeal of the only sensible healthcare changes we've seen in years. Is obamacare perfect? hell to the no. A step in the right direction? yes.
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Post by wvamerican on May 25, 2018 15:57:52 GMT -5
I can't get behind this bill because it arbitrarily allocates funds to the states rather than on a formula such as per capita, per beneficiary, or based on poverty percentages. A modified bill utilizing these allocated measures would be more than acceptable to me as it controls costs, transfers a mandatory spending item to the discretionary budget, and upholds the Tenth Amendment.
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