The Trumpcare provision that could be a death sentence for people who get sick suddenly
Lindsay Gibbs at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/the-trumpcare-provision-that-could-be-a-death-sentence-for-people-who-get-sick-suddenly-313f4292f967
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Perhaps the most egregious change this week was the amendment proposed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), which will allow insurers to offer bare-bones plans as long as they offer at least one plan that fully complies with existing Affordable Care Act regulations on preexisting conditions and comprehensive coverage. On Friday, insurers said the amendment was “unworkable in any form.”
But, somehow, it gets even worse. Not only are the bare-bones plans under the Cruz amendment so cheap that they would cause the cost for comprehensive, ACA-compliant insurance plans to skyrocket, but the Cruz-sponsored plans are so stripped down that they don’t even count as “continuous coverage” in the BCRA.
In other words, if you are a healthy person who purchases the cheap Cruz plan because it’s more financially feasible, but then you become sick and need to upgrade to a better plan, you would be locked out of the insurance marketplace for six full months until you were able to buy a more robust insurance plan.
That’s absurd, considering the six-month ban is in place so that people won’t go without insurance until they become sick, and the entire point of the Cruz amendment seems to be to keep healthy people in the insurance marketplace in the first place.
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At least in Republican bizarro-world.
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