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The Trump administration's latest health-care move [JUNK INSURANCE] will cause even more pain
Sen. Tammy Baldwin Verified account @SenatorBaldwin
8h8 hours ago
We cannot let the Trump administration rewrite the rules and threaten the guaranteed protections that families need.
If you agree, please make your voices heard in support of my Senate resolution to force a vote on overturning Trumps expansion of junk insurance plans.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin
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Aug 16
With the latest acts of sabotage, Trump is once again threatening protections for 2 million Wisconsinites living with pre-existing conditions. We should be working to make things better, not worse.
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The Trump administrations latest health-care move will cause even more pain
By Editorial Board
August 10
THE TRUMP administration recently unveiled a rule letting people buy short-term insurance plans that are not really short term and not really insurance that is, they are exempt from nearly all of Obamacares major protections. This move will cause more pain for those who need insurance the most and create more trouble for states struggling to keep their health-care systems intact.
Obamacare prohibits insurance companies from turning away people with preexisting conditions, cutting people off when they get sick, denying essential care and charging people more based on health status or gender. None of these restrictions apply to short-term plans, which are supposed to be stopgap coverage. The administration wants to allow people to purchase short-term policies for up to 36 months and to sign onto another short-term plan after that.
Such plans are bound to be cheaper, because they can exclude customers who seem as though they might need care. They can exclude coverage for cancer, HIV, maternity care, mental health and even routine preventive care. People will end up discovering at the wrong time that their plans do not cover the treatments they need.
Yet some young and healthy people will take their chances on these plans. As these people leave the regulated Obamacare marketplaces, where premiums are higher because insurers must sell decent plans, sicker and older people will remain, causing their premiums to rise further. This could drive even more people out of the Obamacare market. When those who departed for skimpy short-term plans get sick and realize they need help affording essential care, they will either go bankrupt or, if the timing is right, reenter the Obamacare market and immediately start making expensive claims.
The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, predicts that the new short-term rule and Congresss repeal of the laws individual insurance mandate will result in an 18.3 percent premium hike in the regulated Obamacare market next year in the 42 states and the District, where short-term plans are allowed. A large proportion of Obamacare-buyers are protected from premium volatility through federal subsidies. But those who are not face more government-imposed pain.
The rule makes clear that states are still empowered to impose their own regulations on short-term plans or to ban them entirely. States looking to avoid the bleak future the Trump administration has designed should do so.......................................
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The Trump administration's latest health-care move [JUNK INSURANCE] will cause even more pain (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2018
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(81,534 posts)1. There is no end to his sadistic cruelty.