Trumpcare Facts - President Donald J. Trump Healthcare Reform

CPT Alexander Grant - " Does that prevent you from answering the question as stated?" No! I just am not sure I trust the information presented on the website you linked to. However, to answer your original questions: "Am I disappointed that Trumpcare (I would call it Ryancare) was not voted on?" No, not at all. "What was the greatest benefit you were expecting from it?" At best it was a stepping stone to further actions. However, it was still an attempt to appease the Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies.

More importantly here is what I would like the replacement to the ACA to do:

1. Repeal the entirety of the current ACA
2. Develop a nationalized form of Catastrophic Care for every American.
3. Allow the purchase of Insurance across State and even National borders.
4. Eliminate all government and insurance company interference with healthcare providers. Require all insurance company and the government to use standardized paperwork that would fit in single 500 character data block. Everything else would go into greatly simplified patient medical records.
3. Require enforcement of existing laws as they relate to the Healthcare and Insurance industries (Specifically Consumer Protection under US Code Title 15).
4. Open the healthcare market up completely. EVERY MEDICAL PROVIDER in the country should be required to post their prices and everyone who goes to a provider should pay the same price, including Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and every other private and governmental insurance company in the country. Any form of cost shifting, price hiding, or collusion between the Insurers, the Providers, and the Government should be indictable as consumer fraud and/or racketeering. The market influences should all be to reduce prices, not increase them.
5. Consumers should know the costs up front and if one provider is too expensive they should be able to go elsewhere to be treated.

If we did this, consumer healthcare costs would drop like a stone and with reduced prices, the need to use traditional health insurance for most of America would go away.

Thanks for the response. I am curious about one aspect - you would let foreign entities enter this open healthcare market, even governments?

CPT Alexander Grant - Not governments but insurance companies, pharmaceutical suppliers, and medical device suppliers. We hear so much about free trade but for some reason make it illegal to purchase healthcare across borders.

True that. Why not governments?

What most people don't understand (until they get sick) is that Obamacare was basically a bailout of the failing Health Insurance Industry. The American people got huge increases in annual costs, huge increases in deductibles, a free annual handshake with their provider, and lower deductibles on off brand medications. While the insurance companies took the additional money, stopped paying at the low cost points (everything below 6 thousand a year) which was approximately 40 percent of their output prior to 2009, and ostensibly provided coverage to an additional 12 million people. However, most of those folks actually went on Medicaid. To bail out the insurance industry and cover those 12 million, everyone else in America was forced to trade in their moderately priced Health Insurance for really expensive Catastrophic Coverage.

MSgt James Mullis - The good news for me was my coverage didn't really change much. Same insurance company (Aetna) just a lot more money. Over the years we have had to take on things like significant others (not spouses), children until they are 26 as well as pre-existing conditions for many. Not cheap ventures unless you pay nothing anyway (Medicaid).