The Republicans could be long-term heroes if they addressed the deficiencies of Obamacare by fixing it instead of repealing it.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote an opinion piece for USA Today pushing the GOP leadership plan. Early retirees or older workers not covered by employers usually have higher medical costs. “We have to do something”, Barletta said.
Not only does the plan cater to people with a high income, it also threatens the health care of over 20 million Americans who gained coverage through the ACA.
Outside analysts already have offered some takes on the legislation. While we agree that there are problems with the ACA that must be addressed, we can not support the AHCA as drafted because of the expected decline in health insurance coverage and the potential harm it would cause to vulnerable patient populations. Remember, that promise was broken.
“We’re not going to make an American do what they don’t want to do”, Ryan said.
The House speaker also dismissed concerns the bill would unexpectedly leave people without coverage. “They were way, way off last time in every aspect of how they scored and projected Obamacare”. The Congressional Budget Office has not yet released its estimate, but on last week the Brookings Institution put the number likely to become uninsured at 15 million. When reminded of this finding on Sunday, Price said this failed to take into account that the person in question should have more choice under the Republican plan’s marketization.
“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place”, said Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Hundreds of thousands of people in CT would lose their health care because of this bill.
At a Politico event Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Republicans have to get out of their default position of “sparring” and get into “governing mode”. Create regulation that reigns in the power of health insurance companies.
Since then, the governor has said, “Medicaid expansion works, it benefits people, it improves lives, it saves lives”.
“The current bill is not in a form that I approve of”, he added.
“I asked this Congress to do something about the health of the people of this country”, Truman said in 1948.
People receiving tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are just one group of beneficiaries, but they are the most vulnerable in any repeal.
On ABC, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) questioned whether the president was anxious about any Bharara-led probes that would affect him in the White House. They sense it is only a matter of time before President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior causes multiple defections from what they believe is a “united front” of congressional Republicans. In spite of electing Republicans to Congress, two of those three districts voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton over Trump.
White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney appeared to back away from the bill, saying it was just a “framework” and insisting that nobody should attach Ryan or Trump’s name to it. Rand Paul will have more ammunition in lambasting the law as a new federal entitlement.
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Obamacare also paved the way in Indiana for the Healthy Indiana Plan and HIP 2.0, which have proved beneficial to hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers. For examples, a 45-year-old consumer would get the same $3,000 refundable credit whether he or she lived in Alaska, where the benchmark health insurance policy costs $12,600 this year on average, or in New Hampshire, where the average annual premium is $3,600.
