These Six States Want To Allow Health Insurers To Deny Coverage To Sick People

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. Sections 1401 (a) & (c), if I'm remembering the nomenclature correctly.

Basically, it comes down to the federal supplements for low income individuals. There are quite a few pieces of it that are relevant, but they are tax credits which are of no use to people who make so little that they are useless and for those that make nothing they don't even figure in. There is no enforcement mechanism for the state exchanges and all of it rests on the assumption of medicaid for those at the very bottom, which is already inadequate in the best places and nonexistent in the worst.

There are also no requirements for health care delivery organizations to accept what is offered, insurance or Medicaid now or in the future, and again, those that do are already strained beyond capacity so the idea is that this is going to put an additional 16 million people into a system that already can't handle the people it has.

There are quite a few studies and reports out there if you want more detail, but just tracking down the provisions as written is far more of a job than I'm going to do again for no purpose or money, especially since arguing about it is completely pointless. Sooner or later this will be implemented and all of us are going to see the results.