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still_one

(92,130 posts)
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:15 PM Mar 2017

Parts of the trump/ryancare that will change

Individual Mandate Repeal
Employer Mandate Repeal
Subsidies for out-of-pocket expenses Repeal by 2020
Essential health benefits Change to let each state define what that means
Premium subsidies Change

Would change the way subsidies are distributed by using age, instead of income, as a way to calculate how much people receive. Tax credits would be available in full to individuals earning less than $75,000 and households earning less than $150,000, but they would be capped for higher earners. The subsidy would be $2,000 for a person under 30, and double that for people over 60. The bill would also expand the health plans that qualify for subsidies. The bill was amended Monday to also allow people to deduct more health care expenses from their income taxes, a provision that might be changed in the Senate to instead increase tax credits to older insurance buyers.

Medicaid expandion Change

Would let states keep Medicaid expansion and allow states that expanded Medicaid to continue getting federal funding as they would have under the A.C.A., until 2020. Federal funding for people who became newly eligible starting in 2020 or who left the program and came back, however, would be reduced. The bill also proposes capping federal funding per enrollee, based on how much each state was spending in 2016. The bill was amended Monday to allow states to impose work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries and give states the option to receive a lump-sum block grant for Medicaid, rather than per capita funding. States that haven't expanded Medicaid already would not be allowed to do so in the future.

Restriction on charging more for older folks Change Would allow insurers to charge older customers 5 times as much as younger ones, and allow
states to set their own ratio

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/20/us/changes-to-republican-health-plan.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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Parts of the trump/ryancare that will change (Original Post) still_one Mar 2017 OP
This is their dream bill. I will be surprised if they dont pass it. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. This is their dream bill. I will be surprised if they dont pass it.
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:17 PM
Mar 2017

This would cause mass death and homelessness, so I will be shocked if they dont pass it.

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