ba$eman posted:Drugb posted:Bibi Haniffa posted:Trump is repealing Obamacare. And he should.
Contingent on 60 republican votes in the senate to break a filibuster. Partial repeal will be the more sensible option.
No, that's a replacement. He needs a simple majority to repeal or they can unfund! He can repeal and let it fall back to the old system however, some issues are not easy to unwind, such as no lifetime limits and children staying on parents to 26. The Republicans does not want to throw these people out without a counter proposal for them. These are the aspects of Obamacare which they may want to retain!
Apparently you know more than Forbes magazine
http://www.forbes.com/sites/th...-looks/#284b17037d24
Full repeal requires overcoming a Senate filibuster
To start, full repeal of Obamacare can’t happen unless 60 U.S. senators vote for it, thanks to the filibuster. And there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate for full repeal; if advocates are lucky, there will be 52. (In 2017, Republicans will control either 51 or 52 Senate seats, depending on the outcome of a runoff in Louisiana.)
Republicans could, in theory, get rid of the filibuster, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and others have routinely expressed opposition to that idea. (And that’s a shame.)
Partial repeal would keep most Obamacare regulations in place
The best that Republicans can do is to pass a partial repeal of Obamacare using the reconciliation process, which only requires 51 votes. Republicans did this in January, when they sent to President Obama’s desk the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015.
That bill would have repealed Obamacare’s tax hikes, Medicaid expansion, and insurance exchange subsidies, affecting more than 15 million enrollees. That’s a big deal, because it affects $2 trillion of spending over the next decade.
But critically, the partial repeal bill does not get rid of Obamacare’s tens of thousands of pages of insurance regulations, the regulations that are responsible for the law’s drastic premium hikes.