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

[applegrove]

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

IAN MILLHISER at Think Progress

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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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[Voltaire2]

1. die poor people die

this is the party running our country

[0rganism]

2. burn it down guys, burn it all down

you know you want to
burn the nation down and sell off whatever's left
future generations will remember this arrogant bullshit, possibly through oral tradition or engravings on clay tablets, but it will be remembered

[NurseJackie]

4. It's what Susan Sarandon wanted. Just LOOK at how giddy and animated she is...

... at the thought of a Trump presidency. She can barely contain her glee and excitement!

[Initech]

3. You know how most people have the angel and the devil on their shoulders_

The republicans have a devil on one shoulder and an even worse devil on the other. The angel is pretty much non existent.