Could work.

As promised in his tweet Donald Trump signs executive order to start process to repeal Obamacare.

Since Congress can't get its act together on HealthCare, I will be using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people - FAST

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2017

Courtesy of CBS News:  

President Trump on Friday announced he is "starting that process" of repealing and replacing Obamacare with his executive order to unilaterally change some aspects of health insurance coverage. 

Mr. Trump, surrounded by top administration officials, business leaders and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, praised his executive order as step towards repealing and replacing his predecessor's signature health care law. 

Mr. Trump, stuck with a Republican-led Congress that hasn't passed a bill to undo Obamacare, announced earlier this week that he is resorting to his "pen" instead. Mr. Trump, who began to walk out of the Oval Office Friday before signing the order until Vice President Mike Pence reminded him to sign it, used that pen on Friday. Mr. Trump said the order will cost the federal government "virtually nothing," and will force insurance companies to start "fighting" to sign people up for care. 

"You'll get such low prices for such great care," he said. Mr. Trump didn't back down on his desire to repeal Obamacare and fulfill a signature campaign promise, despite the GOP-led Congress' inability to agree on how to do that. 

Mr. Trump said he is still committed to working with Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, "once and for all." The president's executive order is intended to make lower-premium plans more widely available. Mr. Trump has long talked of his desire to make plans available across state lines, something he says this order will do. 

The White House views this as an action that will "increase the healthcare choices for millions of Americans, potentially allowing some employers to join together across state lines to offer coverage," according to a background call before the order's signing. 

Okay as I think everybody is aware there is nothing about this that is going to increase anybody's health care choices. Those are just the bullshit talking points that Trump is using while he prepares to strip away all of the safeguards and benefits that the Affordable Care Act worked to provide.

Of course this executive order does not really accomplish anything at this point except to allow health insurance companies to sell crappy polices that will be of little use once the policy holder gets very sick or badly injured, and it is sure to be challenged by medical groups, blue states, and even some of his fellow Republicans.

Obamacare had a lofty goal, and that was not only to get more people health insurance, but also to make sure those policies covered them completely, and that they could not be kicked off when they desperately needed to be covered.

This is the first step to handing more power back to the insurance companies, and if past is prologue they will abuse that power until somebody makes them stop.

Now it is more important than ever to start talking seriously about single payer, and to take this power away from these insurance companies permanently.

By the way apparently Trump almost walked away again without signing the executive order, but he was stopped by Mike Pence.

Yeah, fuck Mike Pence.

He needs to be removed from office right along with his orange tinted Fuhrer. 

Elizabeth Hasselbeck blames Obamacare for keeping elderly pregnant women from being able to see the doctor of their choice. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

In a segment titled “Who’s Ruining the Economy Now?” Fox Business host Stuart Varney announced that the president was not going to be able to keep the promise that people could keep their doctors because “United Healthcare has just dropped — we don’t know exactly how many — but thousands of doctors have been dropped from United Heathcare’s Medicare Advantage program.” 

Conservative media outlets like The Washington Times have blamed United Healthcare’s decision on the Affordable Care Act. 

“That leaves hundreds of thousands of patients without the doctor that they’ve had for many many years,” Varney added. “We don’t know how many thousands have been dropped, but thousands have been dropped. What about their patients? What about the people who used to have this doctor who now no longer have this doctor? Broken promise.” 

“And many of those people are women who are expecting babies and who may just have a real relationship with their physician and want to see the same doctor deliver possibly their second child,” Hasselbeck opined. “And they are now left in the dark in a time that they feeling quite vulnerable.” 

“Most of them are elderly,” Varney pointed out. 

Medicare Advantage is a type of Medicare offered by private companies to people over 65 years of age. Medicare Advantage covers traditional Medicare plus additional services, but customers must pay a premium.

"Most of them are elderly."

Hasselbeck is really onto something here. Just imagine all of those poor 65 or older pregnant women who cannot see the same doctor who once delivered their other now forty something children.

Oh the humanity.

Wow! Hasselbeck really raised the old IQ on that Fox and Friends couch didn't she?

P.S. By the way for a more balanced report on what United Healthcare is doing, and why, you can visit the Wall Street Journal.

Actual doctor responds to misleading anti-Obamacare ad created by Americans for Prosperity.

Excellent job by that doctor and this provides yet another useful tool to use against those annoying Right Wing relatives who have been convinced that Obamacare was foretold in the Book of Revelations as a sign of the Apocalypse.

The facts are that if every state were to welcome the new Affordable Care Act provision and work with the federal government we would ALL see an incredibly dramatic change in out health insurance costs and in the quality of care we would receive.

The only thing standing in the way of that, is politics.

By the way Americans for Prosperity, is a front group for the Koch brothers.

If climate change deniers refuse to trust scientists on the issue will they find insurance companies more believable?

This from Business Insider:

Insurance industry leaders went before Congress on Friday to ask for increased federal support for the costs of destructive global warming. Here are some quotes posted by Insurance Networking News: 

“From our industry’s perspective, the footprints of climate change are around us and the trend of increasing damage to property and threat to lives is clear,” said Franklin Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America. 

Cynthia McHale, the insurance program director at Ceres, issued a more unequivocal statement: 

“Our climate is changing, human activity is helping to drive the change, and the costs of these extreme weather events are going to keep ballooning unless we break through our political paralysis, and bring down emissions that are warming our planet. If we continue on this path, extreme weather is certain to cause more homes and businesses to be uninsurable in the private insurance market, leaving the costs to taxpayers or individuals.” 

Look Republicans! This is coming from job creators!

Surely you believe THEM when they say global warming is real, and  that "human activity is helping to drive the change," right?

And considering that the insurance companies are also saying that if this continues the industry may be unable to sustain itself, and that people may be left to pay for damage to their property all on their own, isn't this potentially a threat to our capitalist ideals as well?

Nah, you're right. If you just ignore it, it will just go away.

After all, it's worked so far. Right?