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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome text from Trump exec order on Obamacare -- can anyone decipher this?
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Some text from Trump exec order on Obamacare -- can anyone decipher this? (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2017
OP
it means trump is burying the stupid media under an avalanche of fake news and stupid media
msongs
Jan 2017
#1
my read is it basically says anyone can ignore the law if they want & don't have to follow mandate
Fast Walker 52
Jan 2017
#6
That was my best guess, too. But that will make compete chaos out of the system.
highplainsdem
Jan 2017
#7
it means the health insurance system will be in full-on collapse by July. nt
geek tragedy
Jan 2017
#12
msongs
(67,405 posts)1. it means trump is burying the stupid media under an avalanche of fake news and stupid media
is toing along with it
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)2. HuffPo's Christina Wilkie is also finding this confusing:
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/822612297092919298
Full text of @POTUS Trump's first big executive order on #Obamacare. It's clear how this works politically. Unclear how it affects real life
blm
(113,052 posts)4. Their intention is to Gish Gallop EVERYTHING.
.
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)3. Josh Marshall tweet, says this is "Basically blah blah."
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)5. Judd Legum tweet, says order is lots of words, amounting to very little:
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)6. my read is it basically says anyone can ignore the law if they want & don't have to follow mandate
to buy insurance.
Whatever. Fucked up BS.
highplainsdem
(48,975 posts)7. That was my best guess, too. But that will make compete chaos out of the system.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)8. no doubt... and they don't care
rug
(82,333 posts)9. Reagan tried something similar with SSD and SSI 36 years ago .
http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2094&context=ilj
"To the maximum extent permitted by law", don't.
"To the maximum extent permitted by law", don't.
Norbert9
(494 posts)10. Interstate Markets
#4 So one can state can lure the market and let it fester ala credit cards and South Dakota.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)11. It means keep doing what Pres. Obama was doing, but
claim Trump ordered it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)12. it means the health insurance system will be in full-on collapse by July. nt
ananda
(28,858 posts)13. This is a signal to Congress to send him a bill ..
.. that deregulates and guts ACA in favor of insurance companies.
It's couched in language that is designed to snow his anti-Obama
hate base (who actually want good health insurance.)