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by SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY)
12 Oct 2017
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President Trump will today legalize and allow individuals to form Health Associations and purchase insurance across state lines. This is what real free market replacement looks like. Millions of Americans will be eligible to band together to demand less-expensive insurance. The 28 million individuals left behind by Obamacare will now be eligible for inexpensive insurance.
The cost to the taxpayer? ZERO! As opposed to the trillion-dollar, “fake” replacements we voted on, this replacement simply legalizes choice.
I’ve been working with President Trump and his Cabinet for months to get this done.
How will it work? Well, nationwide associations like the National Restaurant Association will be allowed to form groups across state lines and, with the leverage of size, demand Big Insurance bring down their outrageous premiums.
Many of the 28 million people left behind by Obamacare who still don’t have insurance work low-wage jobs in our fast food restaurants. The President’s decision today will allow workers from two million restaurants to come together to form a buying group and through sheer size get cheaper and better insurance.
Millions of people will be eligible for the same group insurance that big corporations offer. In fact, Health Associations may grow to be larger than the largest of our corporations. Currently, about half of private insurance is cross-state, self-insured ERISA plans, and most employees love them. The President’s action today will allow the millions of people in the individual market an escape route to group insurance.
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Association Health Plans will be among the biggest free-market reforms of health care in a generation, and it will do more to counter the impact of Obamacare than most of the repeal bills did, because it will actually go after regulations that the legislation didn’t touch due to Senate rules.
Existing law allows the President to legalize these new groups and plans. Where previous administrations have been weak, President Trump is bold to allow this reform.
All group insurance guarantees access regardless of pre-existing conditions. But what is great about cross-state Health Associations is that they will be exempt from some Obamacare and State regulations. This exemption from regulations is why cross-state group insurance has seen the lowest rise in premiums of any health insurance available.
The regulators, and hand-wringers, will worry that Health Associations will lead to the least common denominator and simply high-deductible, bare-bones policy. The opposite might occur. We do know that the large group, cross-state ERISA plans out there currently run the gamut and, in fact, often are the most desirable plans available.
Million-person Health Associations will have enormous leverage to get better prices for consumers – that’s exactly why Big Insurance opposes them.
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Most of the “fake” replacements offered don’t fix the individual market; they simply keep in place Obamacare’s subsidies for the individual market. My hope is that cross-state Health Associations will allow so many people to flee the individual market that subsidies will no longer be necessary.
It will take 6 months to a year to begin seeing the benefits of Health Associations. I want to thank President Trump for taking this bold step forward.
As Health Associations form, the death spiral of Obamacare will continue. While we should and will keep fighting for repeal through Congress, I’m excited to have worked with President Trump on a free market reform that can begin to fix many of the problems Obamacare created.
Congress may have failed to act — but President Trump and I haven’t. We’ve been working on this behind the scenes.
So what does that mean for you, the healthcare consumer? Well, first of all, it means millions of people who now go it alone or in very small groups will join together and make the CONSUMER THE KING, with increased bargaining power and better prices.
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You will be able to choose among better and cheaper insurance that works for you — something Obamacare made illegal. You will be able to buy across state lines, opening up competition for the best plans. Many Obamacare regulations will be waived for those in these groups, including costly mandates on what the plans must cover.
Best of all, this isn’t a government mandate. It isn’t a subsidy. It isn’t a tax. Rather, it is the removal of government regulation and barriers to the best possible health care for millions of people.
As a career physician, I know Obamacare is broken and must be repealed. I will keep fighting for this. But I also know health care was broken before Obamacare, and we should take every opportunity to fix what we can.
That’s what President Trump is doing this week, and I’m proud to have worked with him on this important health care reform
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5 point line move and still get buried
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Don't think I've ever seen a worse first half of football in my life
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lolWhere's that asshole who used to remind us that a football game is FOUR (4) quarters?
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Think we can chalk this up as a loss
Every Troy play is a turnover or a penalty
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Just more of the Marxist left's ultimate goal of destroying traditional values
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I would watch the news at the bar. Probably couldn't hear so I would need them to put sub titles on.
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Do you realize there have always been kkk marches? This didn't just start when Trump was elected.so far as I see my taxes are gonna go up, the crime as been going down for the last decade or so, if I wanna retire early I won’t be able to get decent health insurance because he’s sabotaging it, he’s threatening use of nuclear weapons, and nazis are fucking running in the streets it’s a fuckin nightmare!
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Fake newsNot me, I'm not in the 1%
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Nope. It's a shame Trump can't make the laws.Has any of that actually happened?
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It's really not that bad. He fighting for you to have cheaper insurance, lower taxes, less people coming to take your job and safer streets for your children. Is that really so bad?. Trump is everything we teach are children not to be, he has no good qualities of a human being whatsoever, he breaks laws weekly, lies daily. He is not our country, not by a long shot.
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Now what do we call girl scout cookies?
X scout cookies?
Just scout cookies?
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Welcome to 2017. Nothing makes sense anymore.
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Apparently you've never read a zzmocashzz postthis is one of the dumbest posts I have ever read
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We dont use a popular vote system for President.yes cop it was decisive Clinton crushed him in overall votes. In fact that was the 2nd worse performance in popular vote for a winning president in the history of the country delivered by trumpie. It was a bad night for him at the polls, give him a break hes the president.
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lil marco
lil Michael Bloomberg
lil rocket man
lil timely
It just fits.
You forgot liddle Bob
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Thanks fifty. In the future though.... if Diablo and cop are on the same side.... it's a winner
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Hahaha hahaha. I literally laughed out loud.for copper; this all reminded me of one of my favorite chappelle bits:
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How bout me Ted. Have these Libtards best me down?
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Literally the one song that is supposed to unite us all has been hijacked to divide us.
Thank you black people
Unity
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lolif i worked with copper i'd carry around a boombox and anytime i saw him sitting i'd play the anthem to make him jump to his feet.
Congress fails the American people again. President Trump takes action!
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Even CNN can't come up with anything negative to say. That's never happened before.