re: Just keep the damn thing and let it collapse

Remind me again of how Trump "gets things done".

It must be nice to have suckers fall for everything you say as gospel. What next? These same dumbasses call him "God Emperor"?

I say let it collapse. Every 4 yrs, the next President and Congress would have rewrite a new health law. The medical system changes at fast pace. The law will always has to be updated.

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Not enforcing a part of a law you want to collapse in order to make it collapse (because you can't muster up enough votes to change said law through the legislative process) is not 'bad law writing', it's sabotage.

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sounds like the DEMs didn't do a good enough job of protecting these allegedly essential aspects of the law

that's bad law writing

the biggest issue is they wrote too big of a law. there are too may moving pieces and they relied upon the assumption that various aspects of their plan that were essential would not be changed. that is legislative insanity, especially since HOW they passed it declared nuclear political war on the GOP

just to be clear

writing a law that's entire existence was based on a requirement mandating insurance coverage that allowed this mandate to be eliminated via EO is a bad law. the basic framework/policy behind the entire premise requires the assumption that no person in the opposition party may ever have control over the executive again (to eliminate the chance of this EO/reg from being passed)

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sounds like the DEMs didn't do a good enough job of protecting these allegedly essential aspects of the law

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Sounds like you're unwilling to admit that what instability exists in the law is purely due to Republican sabotage, not the law itself.

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Let our healthcare system collapse? Bold strategy for the party that controls all of government

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Health Insurance isn't healthcare.

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BamaAtl

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You're one of the voters Jonathan Gruber was talking about, aren't you?

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Sounds like you're unwilling to admit that what instability exists in the law is purely due to Republican sabotage, not the law itself.

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you're wrong

the "instability" is created by the market itself

the problem with regulatory behavior is that it's reactionary and cannot easily adapt to changes in the market (because regulatory behaviors have limits and procedures to amend them)

the DEMs tried a federal takeover of about 1/6 of our economy without the foundation or data required to do so. it left a behemoth of a law that was more expensive than planned and required annual bailouts to cover for the failure of government projection (a perfect example of how regulatory behavior cannot properly respond to markets). also, the law was written so poorly that one of the foundational principles of the law (mandated coverage) was easily eliminated with an executive order

that is all on the DEMs. they have to own it

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the "instability" is created by the market itself

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The markets are stable. Insurers say this, CMS (with it's Price-appointed head) says this.

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The markets are stable

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without the CSR payments?

is that why my rates are expected to go up ANOTHER 15-33% next year? that's stability?