The Schmuck Strategy for fixing Obamacare

By quinersdiner | March 28, 2017

President Trump can compel Congress to be fellow Schmucks with the rest of us Schmucks.

The Obamacare legislation applied to Congress as well as the rest of us Schmucks when it was passed. They, too, were required to purchase personal insurance under the terms of the Affordable Care Act.

Prior to that, their boss (us, the taxpaying Schmucks) picked up the entire tab for their health insurance. Obamacare seemingly changed that, requiring Congress and their staffers to purchase coverage on Obamacare exchanges.

But with a stroke of pen, Barack Obama undid the tethers that bound them to the monstrosity they had created…

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Did Donald Trump just end Obamacare?

By quinersdiner | February 17, 2017

By executive order, President Trump has effectively eliminated the mandate and opened the door to cheaper, catastrophic insurance coverage. What Morris is saying is that even if Congress does nothing, Obamacare has already been gutted. All that remain are the subsidies.

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More Facebook disinformation

By quinersdiner | January 17, 2017

Here we go again.

The meme above is the latest salvo from the Left that is inaccurate, at best, and dishonest, at worst. I’ll opt for the former, because the left operates on feelings, not facts. The typical leftist ‘feels’ that conservatives are bad, so this meme must be true.

It’s not.

Here was my response:

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A simple way to get rid of Obamacare

By quinersdiner | December 8, 2016

“… about eight million people have paid the tax penalty for violating the individual mandate to buy insurance, and another 12 million have received regulatory exemptions. In other words, more people who were supposed to benefit from ObamaCare have opted out than have enrolled.”

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