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Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration may no longer enforce a rule requiring individual Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty if they do not, a senior White House official said on SundaySpeaking on ABC's "This Week" program, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said President Donald Trump "may stop enforcing the individual mandate."Separately, on CBS' "Face the Nation" show, she reiterated Republican promises that no one would lose their health insurance under Obamacare while a replacement is being developed.
"For the 20 million who rely upon the Affordable Care Act in some form, they will not be without coverage during this transition time," she said.On Friday Trump signed an executive order concerning the 2010 healthcare law, urging U.S. agencies to "waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation" of provisions deemed to impose fiscal burdens on states, companies or individuals.Healthcare experts had speculated that Trump could expand exemptions from the individual mandate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on "Fox News Sunday," reiterated Republican promises to replace Obamacare and allow patients to buy health insurance across state lines using health savings accounts."We’re going to move carefully in conjunction with the administration to repeal and replace it with things like health savings accounts and interstate health insurance sales and high-risk pools at the state level to take care of people who have pre-existing conditions." he said.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
I wonder what the insurance companies think about this.
Like the mandate or not, it's the keystone of the ACA. Take it away and the numbers may not add up for the insurance companies in terms of the premiums they take in versus the benefits they need to pay out.
That said, I suppose those with insurance won't drop their coverage just because Trump is not enforcing the mandate. Unless they are extremely stupid.
And if someone opted to pay the tax penalty rather than get coverage, well they are idiots too but I guess it saves them a little bit of money.
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Re: Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
So, common,,,,, suppose we drop the mandate that people be insured. But we keep the stuff Trump voters like, such as the requirement that insurance companies insure anyone, despite pre-existing conditions.
What affect do you think this will have on insurance rates?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Trump may not enforce individual health insurance mandate: aide
Of course he would opt to NOT enforce it.
The ACA was heraled as being on a "death spiral". The thing that really made that a lie was the mandate. There was an excellent Time magazine article about this. Take away the mandate and it WILL truly be on a death spiral. which is what Trump and the R-tribe want. What will be a reall hoot is how the R-tribe will come up with something that is cost effective (less than the current) and NOT have some sort of mandate as well or something that creates massive deficits. Obviously they have something much better that they have crafted over the last 8 years to announce very soon and everyone will be SO MUCH better off ! 
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