American carnage: GOP admits not everybody is going to have healthcare"
"...American carnage: GOP admits “not everybody is going to have healthcare”
By Oliver Willis |
FEBRUARY 25, 2017
A leaked document shows the first phase of Republican plans to repeal Obamacare, and the result will be devastating for millions as their health insurance is stripped away and the ban on preexisting conditions effectively destroyed.
Politico reports that the draft legislation leaked to them of the GOP’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act “would take down the foundation of Obamacare,” including the individual mandate that has funded insurance coverage for millions, and subsidies for poor people.
Republicans are already on the record affirming many of the principles in the draft plan. Representative Dennis Ross (R-FL) told Bloomberg, “Not everybody is going to have health care — some people just don’t care enough about their own care.”
The draft plan, which is being prepared by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and his team, would also significantly roll back the Medicaid expansion which has covered about 12 million people (in addition to another 10 million people via the Obamacare individual markets).
Bloomberg also reports that elements of the plan are based on Ryan’s hard-right “Better Way” principles that he has previously described as the way forward for American health care. The conservative American Enterprise Institute said Ryan’s plan would “dramatically increase the number of Americans going without health insurance.”
The plan would also destroy the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people who have pre-existing conditions, instead “state innovation grants” would be provided — but these would not make up for the potentially millions who would return to the old days of being denied coverage."
Much more at link, including responses from Schumer and Pelosi. http://shareblue.com/american-carnage-gop-admits-not-everybody-is-going-to-have-healthcare/
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