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applegrove

(118,012 posts)
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:49 AM Jan 2019

Despite the government shutdown, Trump's efforts to gut Obamacare go full speed ahead

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Despite the government shutdown, Trump's efforts to gut Obamacare go full speed ahead

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-obamacare-20190118-story.html

By MICHAEL HILTZIK at the LA Times

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Late Thursday, they released proposed rule changes for the 2020 health insurance year — and requests for comments on further changes — that will drive up premiums for people on Affordable Care Act health plans, cut subsidies and discourage more Americans from enrolling.

The proposals also could raise prescription costs for enrollees and raise costs even for families enrolled in employer plans. Longer-term changes proposed for 2021 and beyond could affect about 2 million ACA enrollees.

HHS acknowledges that the near-term proposals would save the U.S. treasury and cost families an aggregate $900 million a year in subsidies in 2020 and 2021, and $1 billion a year after that. They anticipate that the higher costs will drive 100,000 people off their health insurance plans every year between 2020 and 2023.

“The savings to the treasury are consistent with the idea that consumers would have to pay more,” says Elizabeth Carpenter, the ACA expert at the consulting firm Avalere Health.

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Despite the government shutdown, Trump's efforts to gut Obamacare go full speed ahead (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2019 OP
The traitor wants more Americans to suffer and die for lack of healthcare dalton99a Jan 2019 #1
Trump needs to be defined as mean and devoid of empathy. He should not get away with this. Doodley Jan 2019 #2
drumpf hates most of the American people. democratisphere Jan 2019 #3
Fuck him. smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #4
Trying to kill healthcare is not just Trump. It is a GOP thing. They seem to applegrove Jan 2019 #5
You're right. smirkymonkey Jan 2019 #6
It's why every time I look at Steve Scalise I want to ram oasis Jan 2019 #8
Is there a link for that? pnwmom Jan 2019 #7
Here: dalton99a Jan 2019 #10
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #9

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. drumpf hates most of the American people.
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 03:10 AM
Jan 2019

If you are not putting $$$$$$ in his pocket, you might as well be dead and broke; drumpf will see to it that you are!

applegrove

(118,012 posts)
5. Trying to kill healthcare is not just Trump. It is a GOP thing. They seem to
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 03:24 AM
Jan 2019

not want people to make it to Medicare age where they could continue living and voting. Unless you are rich.

dalton99a

(81,065 posts)
10. Here:
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 11:38 AM
Jan 2019
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-obamacare-20190118-story.html
Despite the government shutdown, Trump's efforts to gut Obamacare go full speed ahead
By Michael Hiltzik
Jan 18, 2019 | 11:10 AM

This is another example of how the Trump administration is happy for no part of government to function well, except the parts that make life harder for the average American. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) connected the dots following the release of the HHS document. Even 27 days into the shutdown, she said, “President Trump has somehow found time to further sabotage health care for patients, families, and women — this time by proposing what would amount to a health care tax on patients and families across the country.”

The rule proposals come as Seema Verma, the head of ACA implementation at HHS, issues another broadside against the law she is sworn to uphold. In an op-ed published Tuesday in the conservative Washington Times, Verma urged states “to develop alternatives to Obamacare that better meet the needs of their residents,” using flexibility offered by her office.

It’s proper to mention that the “flexibility” Verma has encouraged thus far involves imposing work requirements on Medicaid in ways that deprive thousands of people of access to coverage in places they’ve been tried, such as Arkansas; and allowing states to legalize junk insurance, which the ACA was aimed at eradicating.

Verma backed up her position with flagrantly bogus statistics. She asserted, for instance, that enrollment in ACA exchange plans is “more than 60% below expectations,” which she called “the best evidence of the unpopularity of these plans.” Actually, it’s the best evidence of Verma’s willingness to mislead. The “expectations” she mentioned were those made by the Congressional Budget Office in 2010, before the ACA was even implemented. The CBO reckoned then that 21.6 million people would sign up for exchange plans by 2016; the actual figure was about 12.7 million.

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