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Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive

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By ROBERT PEAROCT. 2, 2016

WASHINGTON — The fierce struggle to enact and carry out the Affordable Care Act was supposed to put an end to 75 years of fighting for a health care system to insure all Americans. Instead, the law’s troubles could make it just a way station on the road to another, more stable health care system, the shape of which could be determined on Election Day.

Seeing a lack of competition in many of the health law’s online insurance marketplaces, Hillary Clinton, President Obama and much of theDemocratic Party are calling for more government, not less.

The departing president, the woman who seeks to replace him and nearly one-third of the Senate have endorsed a new government-sponsored health plan, the so-called public option, to give consumers an additional choice. A significant number of Democrats, for whom Senator Bernie Sanders spoke in the primaries, favor a single-payer arrangement, which could take the form of Medicare for all.

Donald J. Trump and Republicans in Congress would go in the direction of less government, reducing federal regulation and requirements so insurance would cost less and no-frills options could proliferate. Mr. Trump would, for example, encourage greater use of health savings accounts, allow insurance policies to be purchased across state lines and let people take tax deductions for insurance premium payments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/obama-health-care-act.html?_r=0

2 thoughts on “Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive

  1. Obama will ignore the Law, Congress and the Constitution in order to keep this Socialist dream solvent until he leaves office then blame the next guy.

  2. This law, when it was only a bill, was too vulnerable even be exposed to an up or down vote after a reconciliation between the two houses of Congress. The new senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts would have voted “no”, thereby killing the bill. Any proposed amendment to the still-unamended yet horribly unpopular Affordable Care Act at this point would itself be amended in such a way that a “aye” or “yes” vote would be a vote to end the law in its entirety. Obama would of course veto any such bill. So the ACA will never be amended until after the new Congress is seated at the earliest.

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