Rep. Pingree responds to GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan

“I firmly believe that the House Republicans’ ACA repeal bill would hurt the hardworking people of the 4th Congressional District”.

“I don’t want them to change this based on income. how they’ll help people rather than on age”, Scott said. They are created to reduce the premium cost of a health insurance plan provided through the health care marketplace and prevent it from costing more than a specific, affordable percentage of an individual or household’s annual income.

“People in Alaska get pretty big tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, and that’s for a couple of reasons”, said Cynthia Cox, who conducts economic and policy research at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Dismantling the Affordable Care Act comes at no surprise to many.

In all, some 18,000 Alaskans bought policies through healthcare.gov a year ago.

“How many people can afford to pay that if they have a medical catastrophe?” she asked, adding that the plan seems like a “huge step backwards”.

Jim Thomas, a member of the local leadership council for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, says healthcare boils down to three things: accessibility, adequacy and affordability.

That means to qualify for a tax credit, among other things, a person has to earn less than $48,240 and a family of four less than $98,400, according to data available by Healthcare.gov.

As an insurance agent, it’s understandable that Ross Shriftman (letter, February 26) would paint a dim picture of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), even alluding that it put his own personal physician right out of business.

Now, some of that lowering of costs is constrained in this piece of legislation because it has to comply with this budgetary oddity known as reconciliation. After all, if the caregiver gets sick and does not have access to a physician, who will be help people shower and dress, have a healthy meal, or keep in mind to take their medications?

The Affordable Care Act eliminates these annual and lifetime limits.

So, the goal here, again, lowering the cost of plans, so that the help that is provided by the government will buy more coverage.

Republicans are seeing criticism and support after proposing their version of a comprehensive healthcare bill.

Wolf’s secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Ted Dallas, said ending the Medicaid expansion would leave Pennsylvania with a $2.1 billion budget hole, or about 7 percent of the state’s proposed $31.5 billion budget this year.

The bill has provisions aimed at increasing the number of insurers in places like Alaska. Elizabeth Warren is pledging to protect community health centers, saying they’re one way to bring down health care costs. Taking on, you know, your everyday lottery victor or, more technically, “letting states disenroll high dollar lottery winners”. “So it’s just a different situation in Alaska than it is in the Lower 48”.

Some of those who attended the town hall meeting admit the Affordable Care Act is not flawless, and would prefer to see Congress work to improve it instead of repealing it.

The House Republican plan, though, might not get Sen.

Of particular interest to states is how the proposal treats Medicaid. “As it is now proposed, the House bill would exacerbate an already unfair situation by capping funds for our state, thereby providing fewer resources to care for those most in need”. The Republican plan reduces federal funding for the program.