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It seems to me that Republicans are using a back-door method to get us to Single-Payer/Socialized Medicare-4-All. They can't just come out and ask for it, for obvious reasons.
originally posted by: carewemust
With no Federal Mandate requiring Americans to purchase health insurance, or be fined, of course you'll have people choosing to go without. It's called FREEDOM.
[T]he Republican plan offers less assistance to older and lower-income Americans, especially in rural areas, according to the Kaiser data. These groups generally backed Mr. Trump. Most of all, President Trump's white working-class supporters often make enough money to be ineligible for Medicaid, but not enough to afford costly health insurance that might even become more expensive under the Republican plan.
The plan would hit older and rural Americans hardest because it wouldn't provide a larger tax credit to people with more expensive plans. Older Americans pay the highest premiums, and the law would allow insurers to raise premiums for older customers even further.
And Cohn's analysis didn't even take into account the direct impact on those benefiting from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion—though Cohn notes that "Trump led by 49-46 percent among Medicaid beneficiaries in the nine red expansion states that have voted Republican in the last two presidential elections."
Wonder how they will like working for $75k/yr? You aren't going to get socialized medicine and Doctors making big bucks....
originally posted by: carewemust
With no Federal Mandate requiring Americans to purchase health insurance, or be fined, of course you'll have people choosing to go without. It's called FREEDOM.
originally posted by: lostbook
The CBO ( Congressional Budget Office) has issued a report today with its findings concerning the GOP's Obamacare replacement known as the the AHCA or the American Health Care Act. Despite Trump's promises to have a better health system in which everyone will be covered, the CBO says that 24million will be without insurance by 2026. Even worse is the fact that older people will have to pay more under this plan, according to the article.
The Congressional Budget Office’s report on the American Health Care Act estimates that 14 million people would be without health insurance in 2018 versus under the plan, while 24 million people would be uninsured in 2026 than under the current plan. The 28-page report released Monday afternoon was bad news for Republicans who had been preemptively attacking the office in anticipation of a scoring critical of their proposed Obamacare replacement plan. The report also said that while the AHCA would substantially decrease premiums for younger policy holders, it would substantially raise them for older Americans.
Healthcare....I don't know what to say. Will the GOP bring us true, affordable healthcare? What says ATS?
www.yahoo.com... eport-184603210.html
Under the ACA in 2017, for exchange plans:
•60-year-old with $20,000 income now gets $13,200
•60-year-old with $40,000 income now gets $10,100
•60-year-old with $60,000 income now gets $0
Under the GOP's tax credit proposal, for any individual market plan:
•60-year-old with $20,000 income would get $4,000 (70% less than under ACA)
•60-year-old with $40,000 would get $4,000 (60% less than under ACA)
•60-year-old with earning up to $75,000 would get $4,000
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
Imagine that. It's almost like everyone said this was a terrible plan.
originally posted by: carewemust
With no Federal Mandate requiring Americans to purchase health insurance, or be fined, of course you'll have people choosing to go without. It's called FREEDOM.
originally posted by: lordcomac
Find the source of the ridiculous cost, and fix it. Bring the pre-insurance cost of procedures in line with the rest of the world, and the insurance problem will sort itself out.
originally posted by: Gumerk
a reply to: carewemust
Choosing to go without, or literally cannot afford it despite efforts to maintain their health?
originally posted by: Teikiatsu
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
Imagine that. It's almost like everyone said this was a terrible plan.
Any plan that has government interfere in any competitive marketplace is a terrible plan.