Congress’ Cuts in Health Care Will Hit Women Harder

Funding for states: The plan also offers $100 billion over ten years for states to use essentially as they see best to reach populations with health coverage problems.

A senior House Republican aide told NBC news on Sunday the replacement bill will be shared this week.

The Republican proposal would end the Medicaid expansion on January 1, 2020 and cap Medicaid funding after that date.

The legislation, dubbed The American Health Care Act, would abolish the individual, income-based subsidies for purchasing insurance under Obamacare.

Conservative Sen. Rand Paul and House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Jim Jordan announced Tuesday they plan to reintroduce legislation repealing Obamacare that overwhelmingly passed Congress along party lines in 2015.

Upon being asked about the monicker “Trumpcare” being used to designate the Republican proposal presented on Monday and contained in two bills, Price said he preferred to call it “Patientcare”.

The GOP plan eliminates the individual mandate, employer mandate and most taxes.

But we can draw a few initial conclusions about the plan, which the Republicans are calling the American Health Care Act, or AHCA. Women already are much more likely than men to be the ones navigating our complicated health care system for their families and dealing directly with its high costs.

What Trump says: President Donald Trump said the plan “follows the guidelines I laid out in my congressional address, a plan that will lower costs, expand choices, increase competition and ensure healthcare access for all Americans”. That means more older adults and younger people with disabilities will exhaust their assets on medical and long-term term care, and more will become eligible for Medicaid. High-income Americans are exempt from receiving the tax credits.

The proposed legislation would still allow people to stay covered by their parent’s insurance until turning 26 and also continues protections for those with preexisting conditions. Devastating for women. Cuts Medicaid & hurts Medicare.

Many Republicans are also expressing doubts. And, by the way, the ACA actually reduces the deficit, so repealing it would cost everybody more even as millions of people lost their coverage. It would be the biggest change in government assistance for long-term care since the creation of Medicaid a half century ago.

But other Republicans didn’t shy away from criticizing the bill.

Emily Brostek, executive director of Consumers for Affordable Health Care, an Augusta health policy nonprofit, said that the Republican plan would result in millions losing their insurance, and for older, sicker and less wealthy patients, premiums would skyrocket.