The GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety

[babylonsister]

The GOP’s on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety
Time to panic.
Ian Millhiser
Sep 18, 2017, 3:29 pm



Senate Republicans are on the cusp of passing a bill that will eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of health funding, destabilize insurance markets, and eventually phase out Medicaid in its entirety. Less than two months after three Republican senators stopped an earlier effort to strip away much of America’s health care safety net, millions of Americans’ health care is now in very serious peril.

The new Trumpcare legislation — often referred to as “Graham-Cassidy” after Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), its leading proponents — contains several provisions undercutting the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates subsidies helping many millions of Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, replacing this funding with a less generous block grant to states.

Then, this block grant abruptly disappears in 2027, leaving many millions of Americans with nothing.

Meanwhile, the bill does not simply permit states to eliminate protections for people with preexisting conditions, it potentially allows insurers to raise premiums on an individual the moment they get sick. Thus, a healthy person who paid their premiums all along could suddenly find those premiums jacked up to prohibitive levels the moment they actually need their insurance to be there for them.


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https://thinkprogress.org/the-gops-on-the-verge-of-passing-a-bill-that-will-phase-out-medicaid-in-its-entirety-c2677f7de2f3/

[CrispyQ]

1. Evil fuckers, every one.

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Just called both of my senators,

One of whom is Ron Johnson.

[Stuart G]

3. k and r...thanks for posting..nt