[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #353 Obamacare blijft

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Centrist lawmakers plot bipartisan health care stabilization bill

A coalition of roughly 40 House Republicans and Democrats plan to unveil a slate of Obamacare fixes Monday they hope will gain traction after the Senate’s effort to repeal the law imploded.

The Problem Solvers caucus, led by Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), is fronting the effort to stabilize the ACA markets, according to multiple sources. But other centrist members, including Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), and several other lawmakers from the New Democrat Coalition and the GOP’s moderate Tuesday Group are also involved.

Their plan focuses on immediately stabilizing the insurance market and then pushing for Obamacare changes that have received bipartisan backing in the past.

The most significant proposal is funding for Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies. Insurers rely on these payments – estimated to be $7 billion this year — to reduce out-of-pocket costs for their poorest Obamacare customers.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to cut off the payments, deriding them as a “bailout” for insurance companies. White House counselor Kelly Conway said on Sunday that Trump will decide “this week” whether to scrap the subsidies — which could make the markets implode.

The bipartisan working group also wants to change Obamacare's employer mandate so that it applies only to companies with more than 500 workers. Currently companies with at least 50 workers can be hit with a tax penalty if they don't provide coverage to their workers.

The group also wants to create a federal stability fund – dollar amount unspecified -- that states can tap to reduce premiums and other costs for people with extremely expensive medical needs. Both the Senate and House repeal packages contained similar pots of money.

The bipartisan proposal also calls for scrapping Obamacare’s medical-device tax, an idea that has received bipartisan support in the past.

Finally, the working group is seeking greater flexibility for state innovation. Obamacare already allows state to seek waivers from coverage rules, but the lawmakers want additional guidance on how states can take advantage of them.

The roll out of their stabilization agenda follows months of private meetings between various members involved in the House’s centrist caucuses about ways to stabilize Obamacare if the GOP’s repeal effort sputtered.

The push was intensified after the Senate’s repeal collapsed in the wee hours of Friday morning when Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined with all Senate Democrats to reject the GOP’s “skinny repeal."

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 11:49 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Oh Lord... Volgens dit bericht zijn Trump supporters boos, omdat ze nog steeds een zorgverzekering hebben..

http://www.newyorker.com/(...)ill-have-health-care

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 11:49 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Oh Lord... Volgens dit bericht zijn Trump supporters boos, omdat ze nog steeds een zorgverzekering hebben..

http://www.newyorker.com/(...)ill-have-health-care

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 10:09 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Maar weer even wat inhoudelijks:

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 10:09 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Maar weer even wat inhoudelijks:

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bron

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 11:59 schreef Re het volgende:

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hoe gaat dat trouwens dan in zijn werk, stel de senaat cenrtists passeren deze act, dan moet het naar house voor wat aanpassingen en bij een positive vote weer door senaat...en dan moet trump er nog een handtekening onder zetten natuurlijk

gaat mooi kleur bekennen worden

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 12:01 schreef The_Temp het volgende:

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Andersom, dit is een initiatief uit het House..

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 11:58 schreef The_Temp het volgende:

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Zou eens tijd worden zeg, prachtige kans voor de democraten om grootmoedig te lijken, en voor de gematigde republikeinen om de ideologische gekkies een hak te zetten

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 11:59 schreef Re het volgende:

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hoe gaat dat trouwens dan in zijn werk, stel de senaat cenrtists passeren deze act, dan moet het naar house voor wat aanpassingen en bij een positive vote weer door senaat...en dan moet trump er nog een handtekening onder zetten natuurlijk

gaat mooi kleur bekennen worden

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 12:03 schreef Re het volgende:

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oh verkeerd gelezen, house - senate - house -trump dan

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 10:09 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Maar weer even wat inhoudelijks:

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bron

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 13:52 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Waarom hebben de Republikeinen niet gestemd om de lijnen tussen de staten weg te halen zodat de zorgverzekeraars konden concurreren in verschillende staten? Ik heb daar na de verkiezingen niets meerover gehoord. Was dat niet Trumps grote plan om het gezondheidszorg vraagstuk op te lossen?

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 13:52 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Waarom hebben de Republikeinen niet gestemd om de lijnen tussen de staten weg te halen zodat de zorgverzekeraars konden concurreren in verschillende staten? Ik heb daar na de verkiezingen niets meerover gehoord. Was dat niet Trumps grote plan om het gezondheidszorg vraagstuk op te lossen?

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 14:41 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:

Cenk Uygur vs. Ben Shapiro LIVE at Politicon

Iemand al gekeken? Zelf net opgezet.

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 14:47 schreef LelijKnap het volgende:
Meh, tyfus saai dat healthcare gelul.

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Op maandag 31 juli 2017 14:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat dacht Trump ook toen hij de dossiers op zijn bureau kreeg.

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There’s something different about the crop of Democrats running for Congress in 2018. As in previous years, the party has recruited a small army of veterans in high-profile races and in Republican-held districts. There are loads of state legislators, business owners, and government officials.

But the candidates also include a volcanologist who’s worried that her favorite research spot will be opened up for development; an aerospace engineer who’s running against the climate-denying head of the House Science Committee; a pediatrician who spends part of the year treating leprosy patients in Vietnam; and a physicist who worries what budget cuts would mean to the federal research facility where she spent her career.

All told, more than a dozen Democratic candidates with science backgrounds have announced their candidacies for Congress or are expected to in the coming months. The boomlet of STEM-based candidates amounts to a minor seismic event in a community where politics and research have traditionally gone together like sodium and water. Trump has been in office just six months, but he’s already done something remarkable—he’s gotten scientists to run for office.

The surge of science-based candidates has been aided by a new political outfit called 314 Action, launched last summer by Shaughnessy Naughton, a breast cancer researcher from Pennsylvania who ran for Congress in 2014 and 2016 . The group, named for the first three digits of Pi, aims to do for candidates with scientific backgrounds what EMILY’s List has done for pro-choice women—funding, recruiting, and training candidates at every level of government. So far 6,000 scientists have reached out to the group about running for federal, state, and local offices; and 314 plans to also back candidates in three dozen school board races this fall. Washington has plenty of lawyers; maybe it’s time for a fresh experiment.

“Traditionally the attitude has been that science is above politics, and therefore scientists shouldn’t get involved in politics, and what that ignores is the fact that politicians are unashamed to meddle in science,” says Naughton. “The way we push back against that is to hold a seat at the table.”

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Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.