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PsychoBabble

(837 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 12:44 PM Mar 2017

Repeal and REDUCE ....

Let's call it what it IS.

The plan endorsed by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), by contrast, offers less financial assistance to low-income people, likely resulting in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today, and provides tax credits to people with higher incomes. The bill scraps key consumer protections.

And, crucially, the legislation is a vehicle for massive tax cuts for rich people and corporations, paid for by slashing assistance to poor and middle-class people.

In sum, the GOP health care legislation falls far short of President Donald Trump’s promises of “insurance for everybody.” Just what the effects of this bill would be on the federal budget and the number of Americans with health coverage isn’t yet known, because House Republican leaders are poised to move the measure forward before the scorekeepers at the Congressional Budget Office have made an assessment. And the bill doesn’t say how it would pay for its spending after scrapping the taxes that financed the Affordable Care Act.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal_us_58bdf877e4b09ab537d63e57?fdstwkxjjum1da38fr&&
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Repeal and REDUCE .... (Original Post) PsychoBabble Mar 2017 OP
Does it allow for pre existing condition clauses to be used against us again? Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Does NOT Cap Premiums If You Have Pre Existing Conditions The Way It Looks. TheMastersNemesis Mar 2017 #2
The goal is two fold, harm Obama's legacy and Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #3
You Got That Right. TheMastersNemesis Mar 2017 #4
Year.... Nothing to cap premiums at market rate uponit7771 Mar 2017 #6
Yes... Summarily... You're garunteed coverage if you can pay uponit7771 Mar 2017 #5
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. Does NOT Cap Premiums If You Have Pre Existing Conditions The Way It Looks.
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 12:49 PM
Mar 2017

You cannot be denied. But it says nothing about raising the premium if you have been sick. Sounds like car insurance if you have too many claims they can raise your rates.

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