GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed. Here's what lawmakers propose now.

[Dulcinea]

(Washington Post) President Donald Trump has again promised a “far better and far less expensive” alternative to the Affordable Care Act, and Republicans are rushing - again - to deliver one.

For weeks throughout the longest government shutdown in history, Trump avoided negotiating with Democrats on the health care concerns fueling their standoff. Now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speeding toward a self-imposed deadline of mid-December to hold dueling health care votes.

Democrats maintain the simplest and most popular option is to extend ACA subsidies set to expire next month. Analysts say millions of people - many in states that supported Trump - will forgo health insurance if the program ends. The president’s own pollster has warned that not extending the subsidies would pose a major political risk for the GOP in the midterms.

But rather than sign on to Democrats’ proposal, the president has argued that billions of dollars in ACA subsidy money should be redirected away from health insurers and toward the general public, potentially in the form of untaxed health-savings accounts.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-plans-replace-obamacare-failed-172629969.html

[everyonematters]

1. I think the best way to go right now is a public option in the ACA. We are not going to get Medicare for all yet.

We will get their eventually.

[gab13by13]

3. The public has the option to buy Obamacare now.

The Magat plan is to kill Obamacare.

[everyonematters]

5. The option to buy from insurance companies. The public option would lower cost because you are not

paying for the profits of the insurance companies. This would bring down costs.

[gab13by13]

2. The Magat plan will cause thousands of Americans to die, and they know it,

that is the plan.

Healthy people will drop insurance and pay for healthcare out of pocket, that will leave just sick people in the plan and then premiums will skyrocket.

The plan is for only the rich to have healthcare, the plan is for eugenics, the rich are the master race and they don't want poor people contaminating their gene pool.

The KFF estimates that 50,000 Americans will die per year.

[Lovie777]

4. Whatever the GQP hatch up will not be in our favor...................

shithole and comrades have destroyed the WH, USA's standing in the world, fueled racists, haters, treat people inhumanly, millions across the world have died and suffer because they discontinued USAID.

shithole and comrades are on the path of destroying SS, SSI, Medicare, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, voting rights, education, healthcare, civil rights, women rights.

The destruction of Democracy and the present Republican approves it.

[mike_c]

6. Medicare for all is the only real solution

The ACA is not the answer and it never was. It's Romneycare, designed to help insurance companies stay relevant and to protect for-profit health care from the socialist boogieman.

The ACA was not a great achievement of the Obama admin. It was one of its most disappointing failures, IMO. It simply entrenched for-profit health systems and the parasites who drain them even further. We need public, non-profit Medicare for all Americans!

[CTyankee]

7. I'm sure he did the best thing possible at the time. I trust Obama.