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by Anna North at Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/21/16340488/graham-cassidy-obamacare-health-care-abortion
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The eleventh-hour Obamacare repeal bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) would reduce Americans access to reproductive health care in a number of ways. But one particular provision would take effect fast, and could plunge patients, insurers, and state governments into chaos.
Starting in 2018, the bill would bar the use of Obamacares premium tax credits to pay for plans that include coverage for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the mothers life, as health care analyst Charles Gaba notes at ACASignups.net. This would mean no plan offered on the exchanges could cover abortion. This is a problem in itself, as a lack of insurance coverage for abortion can cause a number of problems for patients, such as forcing them to choose between paying for the procedure and paying rent.
But the timing could cause another problem. As Gaba points out, the deadline for insurers to sign up for participation in the 2018 exchanges is in less than a week. If Graham-Cassidy passes, it will most likely happen after that. So plans that were legal days before will suddenly become illegal, just over a month before the 2018 enrollment period starts.
Twenty-five states already bar exchange plans from covering abortion, said Laurie Sobel, the associate director for womens health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. So this particular provision of Graham-Cassidy wont change anything there. (In six other states, no plans available on the exchanges in 2016 included abortion coverage.) But in 25 states, plans that cover abortion are allowed, and its not at all clear how insurers will respond if their plans suddenly violate federal law.
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Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Let us hope we have a few Republicans that care more about their people than a particular philosophy.
It is pretty simple here, this is going to be a "life or death" decision that is made by a few one way or another. If there are three who vote against this, as before, thousands of lives and tens of thousands of life savings will be saved. It is as simple as that.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)....I guess the only thing left is NO SEX. The men wont mind that will they?