Not only that but the GOP leadership in the Senate told Trump to let them work their process. He’s just starting to do his thing right now. Personally, I wish everyone would listen to Rand Paul. Back when insurance companies were terrified of the potential outcome of healthcare reform (pre-Obama election and the gift to insurers known as ACA), the framework Paul is referring to was put into effect. It was right after United Healthcare was penalized for “fixing” the underwriting program. I had an association plan (still have the grandfathered version at 2x the premium). I had all the preventive care perqs later mandated by ACA (no maternity coverage because I’m past that point in life) and an HSA compatible plan with reasonable coverages for routine and in hospital care at a price of $305 per month. Many of my other self-employed friends had coverage through their professional associations. My hairdresser had skin cancer and was insured through Texas’ high risk pool at a premium comparable to mine (with slightly better out-of-pocket cost). ACA wiped out all those programs and neither my self-employed friends or I qualified for any of the “credits” we all had to bear the full brunt of higher premiums and less choice in doctors. I stick with my grandfathered plan because under ACA the only HSA-compatible plans are bronze junk insurance. Health insurers are making billions. We need to stop giving them corporate welfare and start putting caps on premiums since they aren’t regulating themselves and it is a limited choice, regulated market. We also need more cost transparency to help keep avoidable costs under control. There is no “right” to healthcare. We need a system that lets people insure themselves at reasonable cost, but we shouldn’t be giving able-bodied employable individuals subsidies to pay premiums. Nor should we give insurance companies subsidies when they are making profits and paying huge bonuses. In short, we need to return to personal responsibility by eliminating the smoke and mirrors that forces people to pay unsustainable premiums and have no clue about their medical costs. Imagine going to a grocery store, having to shop for products with no price and having your total cost at checkout dictated by what color shopper card you carried in wallet. That is our current healthcare system in many cases. I ask price before I incur elective medical expense. In about 1 out of 4 cases, I get a good answer. Most of the time the answer is, “its for your health or its covered under insurance.”

Pati ACA was a piece of shit from the start it never was about getting Americans affordable health care or health insurance it was always about putting the American people on the hook to the health insurance industry. Pati these two industry have poured more than a billion dollars into Congress to make sure they get the wind fall from our tax dollars and to have the right to rape, loot and pillage the American people’s pocket book. Pati their strategy is real simple highest cost for health insurance for the least possible coverage.
The truth is the leadership of either of the parties does not give a rat’s ass about average Americans or the working poor, much less the poor. We are a revenue source that’s it,after that they may want a vote from time to time then they want us to shut the hell up and go away. That is why it is time for a viable Third party. Let’s call it the Moderate Conservative/ Liberal Party (MCLP) that represents where most Americans are political in the center.