Trumpcare Flopped

[Tiberius]

Followup article in World Herald today.

Aetna dropping ACA plans 12/31/17 too.

One company left, Medica, they had no comment on whether or not they were staying in the Iowa market.

Question:

do I have to pay the IRS penalty for being uninsured if there is no insurance for me to purchase ??

I am not a tax accountant but I have an interest in the tax system. I believe you can apply for an exemption:

https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/...exemptions

[vorlon13]

TY

[Tiberius]

There's a tool to find whether any apply to you:

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-covera...m-the-fee/

[Crunchy]

The problem is that Obamacare does not address the issue of escalating costs. The ACA was passed because it was the only politically acceptable solution, not because it was the best solution. Both Obama AND Trump have praised universal single payer systems. (BTW, single payer is not the only way to deliver cost effective healthcare, Switzerland, France, Germany, and others have achieved true universal coverage, and lower costs with hybrid public/private models, but NEVER with just private models)

We have to admit that Trump has accomplished one thing that eluded Obama, he made Obamacare popular. Maybe now the nation is ready to accept the reality that markets can't cure the problems plaguing American Healthcare and that government intervention is necessary. Or maybe the stupidity will continue, it's up to Americans to decide.

[Minimalist]

It seems that Obamacare was more popular with republicunts than even the republicunts will admit.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-...le/2621543

Why can't House repeal Obamacare? Because a lot of Republicans don't want to

About a week after the first Obamacare repeal failure, a House Republican, speaking privately, said the difficulty in passing the bill was not a parliamentary problem involving the complexities of the Senate and reconciliation. No, the lawmaker said, "It is a problem that we have members in the Republican conference that do not want Obamacare repealed, because of their district. That's the fundamental thing that we're seeing here."

"I thought we campaigned on repealing it," the lawmaker continued. "Now that it's our turn, I'm finding there's about 50 people who really don't want to repeal Obamacare. They want to keep it."