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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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dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Doodley
(8,976 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)If you are not putting $$$$$$ in his pocket, you might as well be dead and broke; drumpf will see to it that you are!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't wait until the man is dead and buried.
applegrove
(118,012 posts)not want people to make it to Medicare age where they could continue living and voting. Unless you are rich.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Fuck them all. I can't wait until they are all dead and buried.
oasis
(49,150 posts)that crutch down his damn throat.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Despite the government shutdown, Trump's efforts to gut Obamacare go full speed ahead
By Michael Hiltzik
Jan 18, 2019 | 11:10 AM
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.
Its 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 theyve 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, its the best evidence of Vermas 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.