The Affordable Care Act is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher take from Republican lawmakers who say key parts of the ACA cost taxpayers too much and provide incentive for fraud.
Several House Republican leaders have called on two watchdog agencies to investigate, while Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) fired off more than half a dozen questions in a recent letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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While potential fraud in government programs has always been a rallying cry for conservatives, the recent criticisms are a renewed line of attack on the ACA because repealing it is unlikely, given that more than 21 million people enrolled in marketplace plans for this year.
Take away their health insurance paid by taxpayers ez. Also ban them from buying any private insurance
No, no, MAKE them buy private insurance. Force them to understand how completely fucked up that industry is. Regularly audit their intersections with those companies as part of their regular financial disclosures to make sure they aren’t getting a deal from their carriers for favorable legislative results.
The problem is that there are some relatively good private insurance plans out there, of you can afford them. It isn’t all fucked up, just what the bottom 75% can afford.
True, but those plans are not cheap, and congresspeople, while not at all poor, don’t make all that much.
Congress should be enrolled in the base tier Medicare program and barred from buying any private insurance on top. Health insurance reform would follow within 6mo.
Congress was actually mandated to use the exchanges created by the ACA. It was an amendment proposed by a Republican, who bought the narrative that Democrats were forcing bad insurance on the American people, and would never subject themselves to it. Democrats actually thought that was a great idea and went for it.
Republicans have since railed against the amendment they proposed, claiming Democrats opted themselves out of Obamacare.
