Insurance Commissioner: Trumpcare Is a Case of Robin Hood in Reverse

[TexasTowelie]

Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, responsible for regulating health insurance in the state, says he was shocked by the dire forecast released by the Congressional Budget Office on Monday predicting that 14 million people could lose health care coverage within the year under a Republican plan now moving through Congress.

“It is worse than what any of us had anticipated,” Kreidler, a Democrat, says.

The Brookings Institution had estimated than 15 million people would lose health insurance over the course of the next 10 years, but the nonpartisan CBO reported that nearly that many would be uninsured within the year if the plan becomes law; the CBO says 24 million could lose coverage over the next decade.

The CBO says the reasons for the drop in coverage are many. Some people are currently enrolled in a health insurance just to avoid paying the penalties associated with the individual mandate, and the GOP’s bill would abolish these penalties, allowing people to chose to go uncovered. But many others would be forced off insurance roles because of huge cuts to Medicaid and subsides that help low-income people get coverage.

Read more: http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/insurance-commissioner-trumpcare-is-a-case-of-robin-hood-in-reverse/

[KT2000]

1. he is a good insurance commissioner

elected position - he started his first term sympathetic to the insurance companies but quickly changed his position. We have good protections in Washington and the cross state lines position will doom our current protections.

[gibraltar72]

2. Part of

Rs plan is to avoid having good insurance commissioners have any say in what is sold in their states. The issuing states commissioner would have final say. Texas and Kansas would rule.