Hope everyone has a great weekend! Be safe out there.
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ACA replacement breakdown per NYTimes:
-Individual Mandate replaced with 30 percent surcharge on premiums if uninsured for more than 63 days
-Employer Mandate removed
-Out-of-pocket subsidies to be repealed in 2020
-Taxes on high incomes, prescription drugs, medical devices to be rolled back
-Medicaid expansion won’t change unless you only become eligible after 2020. States may impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients.
-Pre-existing conditions can charge higher prices for those who had a 63-day lapse in coverage. $8 billion set aside to help offset costs for people with pre-existing conditions
-Essential health benefits are now mandated on a per-state basis instead of federal
-Older Americans can be charged up to five times (up from three) more than younger Americans, but states have the option to increase cap further
-Premium subsidies now according to age, not income and location
-Health spending accounts maximum increase
-Dependents under age 26 still covered (no change)
-Prohibitions on annual and lifetime limits remain in effect (no change)
No longer will people be forced to purchase insurance if they don’t want it, and pre-existing conditions can still get coverage (at a higher cost since they’re a higher risk of filing a claim), with assistance from fed to offset the higher cost.
Nowhere do I see anything about people losing their current coverage.
Ironically, this is much more likely to fall under “if you like your coverage you can keep your coverage” and “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”.
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Just received the Freedom Ordnance FX9 from ClassicFirearms.com. Haven’t shot it yet but initial impressions are good. The true test will take place over a few range sessions coming up. Stay tuned!
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Something to think about…..
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Today’s Freebies
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Obamacare was a bad deal but this will screw people with no money and seniors my age, many of whom have no money. You just won’t want to live in some states. Trump has screwed the working people who elected him IMO. The devil is truly in the details of this plan.
Maybe we should be responsible for ourselves and stop expecting others to take care of us!!! If you weren’t taxed so much to take care of the takers, then you could afford to care for yourself. Just a thought!!!!
Enough lobbyists have to be paid off big so big government is going to do big expensive programs. Obamacare took money from wealthy folks and gave it to poor folks. Trumpcare will take money from working and middle class folks…us…and give it to wealthy folks. Read the bill. It’s a lose-lose situation for the middle class with either program.
How about we stop taking each others money and giving it to someone else who didn’t earn it!!!! It will always be a lose-lose situation when someone else thinks they knows better how to use your hard earned money.
What happened to stopping Obama Care? Vote it null and void.
That Freedom Ordnance FX9 looks very nice, now imagine it with a Law Tactical Folding Stock Adapter, a DOLOS QD barrel system, a good optic, and a Binary trigger. OHH YEAH now you have an awesome weapons platform for an all around pistol caliber carbine.
As for the ACA and all, well the old system was broken and the new system is broken. I say FIX the problems and stop starting over from nothing. On the flip side, since when did someone else become responsible for my health? If I am an obese man, the airlines don’t charge everyone else on the plane for an extra seat for me, I would have to. I hope that doesn’t give the airlines any ideas 🙂