Rand called it. |
Good news:
JUST IN: Trump says he will probably sign executive order next week to allow people to buy healthcare across state lines pic.twitter.com/656vijo1b2— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) September 27, 2017
Senator Rand Paul predicted that the phony Cassidy-Graham "repeal" and replace would fail in Congress and that President Trump would then sign an executive order to allow people to buy healthcare across state lines.
This appears to be exactly what is going to occur. It is far from the repeal of government intervention in the healthcare sector but it is a move in the right direction.
Rand saw
it coming a mile back, long before anyone else.
-RW
UPDATE
Via The Washington Examiner:
President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs down and stir greater competition in the national marketplace.
The executive action gives the White House a chance to follow through on at least one promise related to healthcare reform, after Senate Republicans' second attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare failed this week. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul first mentioned the action during a TV appearance Wednesday morning, saying Trump was considering taking matters into his own hands.
"I think there's going to be big news from the White House in the next week or two, something they can do on their own," Paul told MSNBC, adding that Trump "can legalize on his own the ability of individuals to join a group or a health association across state lines and buy insurance."
A Senate GOP source told the Washington Examiner the executive action is considered "a done deal" and likely to be announced "in the next few weeks."
Trump later confirmed to reporters he is likely to issue an order permitting "people to go out across state lines, do lots of things, and buy their own healthcare."
The president described the forthcoming executive action as "very major," adding he also intends to spend the next few months negotiating with Democrats on a bipartisan healthcare bill.
Paul said he has discussed the proposal with the president and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on "multiple occasions" while the Senate was focused on advancing the Graham-Cassidy bill, which was pulled from a vote on Tuesday.
A White House spokesman declined to provide details on the executive order.
Hillary would never have approved this - Libertarians for Trump were right all along.
ReplyDeleteRule by executive order. When Obama did it, bad. Now Trump does it, good. "Principles", yo.
ReplyDeleteWhen executive orders are used to abolish oppressive measures, good. Introduce oppressive measures, bad.
DeleteFixed that for ya.
Tbf there's not much overlap between government procedures and "principles"
Delete@mash: Situational ethics much? Oppressive is in the eye of the beholder. See the "don't take away my Olosercare" crowd (citizens and crony corps) that Congress is so afraid of and beholden to. The process of making and striking down law by executive fiat is what is wrong.
DeleteMaybe its because Ive never had insurance through anyone else but through my various jobs but I didn't know you couldn't buy health insurance across state lines.
ReplyDelete