What Does Obamacare Uncertainty Mean for You?

The Ways and Means Committee voted 23 to 16 for the bill at around 4 a.m. local time (9 a.m. EST) after convening for 18 hours to study the paperwork, while the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 31 to 23 to clear the bill in the afternoon, after 27 hours’ of debate.

Republican Congressional leaders are attempting to rush the Obamacare replacement through Congress before even more opposition to it can mount. However, it permits insurance companies to charge higher premiums to individuals whose coverage has lapsed. But at the same time, they’re proposing to continue subsidizing health insurance for lower-income people, albeit at a far reduced rate. We desperately need changes to improve care and costs for Americans, especially in rural communities.

The Congressman told the publication he does not believe Medicaid has helped people.

While insurers won’t be allowed to turn down people who try to sign up for insurance once after they get sick, they can sock them with a hefty surcharge of 30 percent that first year.

“It zeros out the mandate, it repeals the taxes, it repeals the subsidies, and it rolls back some of the regulations”.

President Donald Trump has not stated at this time if he prefers the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan” over the “American Health Care Act”. And most of all, the people who would no longer have affordable health care.

The American Nurses Association joined a growing number of provider groups including the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and the American Academy of Family of Physicians attacking the House bill for its lack of coverage, financial details and transparency.

This change, say analysts, could result in millions of people losing coverage. More than 1 million people bought coverage through a new health insurance marketplace, Covered California, while almost 4 million more joined Medicaid, a health plan for the poor jointly funded by the state and federal governments and known in California as Medi-Cal.

The AMA sent a letter to congressional leaders saying it was unable to support the GOP bill largely due to the “expected decline in health insurance coverage and the potential harm it would cause to vulnerable patient populations”. “Conversely, some people who are younger, higher-income, or live in low-premium areas (like Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Washington) may receive larger assistance under the replacement plan”.

The lobbying group for older adults also blasted the legislation’s provisions for reducing federal funding for Medicaid.

One reporter noted that some conservatives have been pushing for return to a 2015 repeal bill that was vetoed by former President Obama, but Spicer suggested the White House was not looking at any options other than the House leadership’s bill.