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“Because of health reform, consumers can get covered if they have a pre-existing condition, women can’t be charged more than men, and young adults can stay on their parents’ insurance”.

Paul Sobocinski of the Land Stewardship Project complained that insurance companies put “profits before people”. Rather than opting out, many people might consider it important to get covered in case ACA replacement options hinge on whether people had coverage in place, Trish said.

“If, on the other hand, whatever they’re proposing results in millions of people losing coverage, and results in people who already have health insurance losing protections that were contained in the legislation, then we’re going to have a problem”, Obama said.

“The American people are demonstrating how much they continue to want and need the coverage the marketplace offers”, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said in a statement Wednesday. Of course not. Are costs, particularly from the ER, shifted on to other patients’ insurance plans? Now, with the election of Donald Trump as president, they will soon get their chance.

The first objection is that the new regulation would create perversities of its own. Almost 1.1 million people had enrolled past year by about the same time. “We rely on that federal support to provide coverage”. That should nullify this objection.

As the task force looks at ways to reduce insurance costs, the Commerce Department advice was that any solution has to address that disparity. The credit gives you a tax break for buying insurance.

She said if only unpopular sections, such as the individual mandate requiring everyone to be insured or pay a penalty, are cut out, the law can not survive and insurance markets would collapse. So are they really the same thing? But health policy analysts say a tweaking of that law could mean higher health insurance premiums for some boomers due to their age. That’s why the individual mandate went to the Supreme Court.

The state received almost $9 billion from the federal government in fiscal 2015 for health care expenses related to MassHealth, the Health Connector and other programs.

The American Medical Association (AMA) released a statement yesterday reaffirming its commitment to ensuring that every American who now has healthcare coverage will continue to have insurance and access to medical care. And so far, the GOP has not said with what it wants to replace the individual mandate. Again, the concern seems exaggerated. Will pre-existing conditions again be allowed to affect premiums or kick people off their policies? How his administration handles a pending lawsuit over billions of dollars in insurance subsidies will reveal whether Trump wants an orderly transition to a Republican-designed system or if hed push Obamacare over a cliff. To accept this conclusion requires both buying those three prior points and losing all sense of perspective. In contrast, people may move in and out of the individual market a number of times over their lives as they change jobs or leave the Medicaid program, for example. Efforts should be made to improve the ACA without throwing 25 million people into the hands of the greedy health-care industry.