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ffr

(22,669 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 03:15 PM Jul 2017

The new Senate health bill is terrible for anyone who is sick, has been sick, or will be sick

The revised Senate bill turns Obamacare into a high-risk pool.

The revised Better Care Reconciliation Act was released today, and here’s the bottom line: It returns individual insurance markets to the bad old days when insurers competed on insuring the healthy and finding ways to avoid covering the sick.

There are a host of changes in the new BCRA, most of which leave the fundamental thrust of the legislation intact. But there’s one addition that genuinely changes everything.

Included in the new bill is a version of Ted Cruz’s amendment allowing insurers to offer plans that don’t comply with Obamacare’s insurance regulations so long as they also offer plans that do comply with Obamacare’s insurance regulations. - Vox

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The new Senate health bill is terrible for anyone who is sick, has been sick, or will be sick (Original Post) ffr Jul 2017 OP
Each iteration gets worse and worse still_one Jul 2017 #1
Your title says that 100% of the population will be effected BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,585 posts)
2. Your title says that 100% of the population will be effected
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 04:21 PM
Jul 2017

So how in the hell is this a partisan issue!?
I'd like a Repub answer to that. Nixon wanted universal health care, Romney made it happen in Mass.

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