I read a lot about this last night, and it's just terrible. The ACA has issues, but instead of attempting to fix them (of course, they caused most of them by undermining key parts of the ACA in the fist place), they are indeed going to screw millions out of existing health care, by giving poor and lower middle class people an amount of money that won't even cover one year of health insurance, let alone other costs such as deductibles.
And they don't like personal mandate, though the penalty cost goes to help those who cannot insurance it btw, and instead will let INSURERS gain the penalty money for ANY gap in coverage. So if you lose your job, and do not get another for say, 2 months, the next insurer can charge you 30% for you misfortune. Fabulous thinking!
I've also read that this will almost certainly raise insurance premium costs even above the recent hikes that people are complaining about.
This also marks the first time in history that America will remove a social program that has already been implemented, thereby leaving untold numbers of people who were being helped, out in the cold.
All that being said, the medicaid rollback seems to be causing enough Republican senators to balk that it likely won't pass. Most of those red states use a LOT of medicaid, and they don't want to loose their constituents votes. Plus, they can't vote if they are dead! (Regardless of what 45 says)
And they don't like personal mandate, though the penalty cost goes to help those who cannot insurance it btw, and instead will let INSURERS gain the penalty money for ANY gap in coverage. So if you lose your job, and do not get another for say, 2 months, the next insurer can charge you 30% for you misfortune. Fabulous thinking!
I've also read that this will almost certainly raise insurance premium costs even above the recent hikes that people are complaining about.
This also marks the first time in history that America will remove a social program that has already been implemented, thereby leaving untold numbers of people who were being helped, out in the cold.
All that being said, the medicaid rollback seems to be causing enough Republican senators to balk that it likely won't pass. Most of those red states use a LOT of medicaid, and they don't want to loose their constituents votes. Plus, they can't vote if they are dead! (Regardless of what 45 says)
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
