{"id":21529,"date":"2016-04-29T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21529"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T21:05:13","slug":"replacing-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/replacing-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing ObamaCare?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans keep saying that they want to replace ObamaCare with something else, but they never want to discuss the details, because that something else is RepubliCare. Those who can afford high-end health care coverage get it, but only until they become chronically ill.  Then they, and those who can\u2019t afford high-end coverage get the RepubliCare Death Benefit.  They get to die at no additional charge.   On the other hand, it seems that some Democrats are interested in replacing ObamaCare.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For years, voters in this swing state have rejected tax increases and efforts to expand government. But now they are flirting with a radical transformation: whether to abandon President Obama\u2019s health care policy and instead create a new, taxpayer-financed public health system that guarantees coverage for everyone.<\/p>\n

The estimated $38-billion-a-year proposal, which will go before Colorado voters in November, will test whether people have an appetite for a new system that goes further than the Affordable Care Act. That question is also in play in the Democratic presidential primaries.<\/p>\n

The state-level effort, which supporters here call the ColoradoCare plan, would do away with deductibles. It would allow patients to choose doctors and specialists without distinguishing between those \u201cin network\u201d and those \u201cout of network.\u201d It would largely be paid for with a tax increase on workers and businesses, and cover everyone in the state. Supporters say most people would end up saving money.<\/p>\n

Insurance groups, chambers of commerce and conservatives have already lined up in opposition. They say the plan\u2019s details are vague, its size and cost galling. The proposed health system would have a budget bigger than that of Colorado\u2019s entire state government. A new 10 percent tax on payroll and incomes to pay for the system would push Colorado\u2019s tax rates to some of the highest in the nation.<\/p>\n

The proposal\u2019s chance of success is dubious\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Before signing off on it, I\u2019d want to have more detail, but this sounds a lot like Medicare for all, which I do support.  Of course there is one plan that would be tragic for America.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republicans keep saying that they want to replace ObamaCare with something else, but they never want to discuss the details, because that something else is RepubliCare. Those who can afford high-end health care coverage get it, but only until they become chronically ill.  Then they, and those who can\u2019t afford high-end coverage get the RepubliCare […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}