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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety
The GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety
Time to panic.
Ian Millhiser
Sep 18, 2017, 3:29 pm
Senate Republicans are on the cusp of passing a bill that will eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of health funding, destabilize insurance markets, and eventually phase out Medicaid in its entirety. Less than two months after three Republican senators stopped an earlier effort to strip away much of Americas health care safety net, millions of Americans health care is now in very serious peril.
The new Trumpcare legislation often referred to as Graham-Cassidy after Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), its leading proponents contains several provisions undercutting the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates subsidies helping many millions of Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and Obamacares Medicaid expansion, replacing this funding with a less generous block grant to states.
Then, this block grant abruptly disappears in 2027, leaving many millions of Americans with nothing.
Meanwhile, the bill does not simply permit states to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions, it potentially allows insurers to raise premiums on an individual the moment they get sick. Thus, a healthy person who paid their premiums all along could suddenly find those premiums jacked up to prohibitive levels the moment they actually need their insurance to be there for them.
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https://thinkprogress.org/the-gops-on-the-verge-of-passing-a-bill-that-will-phase-out-medicaid-in-its-entirety-c2677f7de2f3/
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The GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2017
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)1. Evil fuckers, every one.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)2. Just called both of my senators,
One of whom is Ron Johnson.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)3. k and r...thanks for posting..nt