HEALTH CARE: Uncertainty reigns with Obamacare repeal looming

Matt Cartwright, incumbent candidate for the 17th Congressional District, speaks with the Times Tribune editorial board Wednesday. Secrest says this new legislation also does nothing to lower the cost of medication, which has increased under the Affordable Care Act.

While the zeal to replace Obamacare with a system that is more sustainable and doesn’t penalize working Americans has been in place since the legislation became law several years ago, the effort should not be hasty.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Ryan’s bill is not so much a healthcare package as it is a massive shift in wealth.

“For starters, our bill repeals Obamacare”.

The bill would no longer require that Americans buy health insurance, and it would eliminate the current subsidies that are used to bring down the cost of premiums. What they have – it won’t be there.

He says when combined with Alaska’s economic challenges and the highest unemployment rate in the nation, asking people to pay more for health care will hurt people in more places than just their pocketbook. Create regulation that reigns in the power of health insurance companies. The payment is tied to what they paid in 2016.

“You know what I hear from Paul Ryan? This is the bill the president has looked at and said, yes, this is what will work”, Mulvaney told ABC.

Health care is an emotional issue for people, she said, noting those with children who have chronic conditions such as diabetes.

“I’m here because ACA saved my life”, Gabriel Cohen said.

House Republicans are doing away with a regulation under Obamacare that restricted how much insurers could charge their oldest subscribers.

“This is the same CBO that when Obamacare did come to the floor they made all those great promises about how it was going to lower premiums”, Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana said during a markup hearing on Wednesday. In 2013, just before the exchanges were launched, 83.4 percent of people under age 65 had health insurance.

And all this when the many real facts about the ACA are good. Is there a chance you think Republicans will get this right? And no less than the American Medical Association is opposed to what Republicans are trying to do, because doctors and hospitals recognize that under the GOP plan, millions of people will lose their insurance, which means they’ll get sicker, which means some will die.

For starters, they would maintain current funding for the Medicaid expansion until 2020.

Obamacare has never been popular. He said on ABC’s “This Week”, that the plan is “a really nice framework” but the White House is “open to talking about” modifications.

The House speaker also dismissed concerns the bill would unexpectedly leave people without coverage.

Trump administration officials sought to buck up support for House Republican plans to overhaul the Affordable Care Act on Sunday amid vocal dissension within the party about the measure.

Mr. Paul said he doesn’t think the bill, as it stands now, will get the needed 51 votes in the Senate. He said tax credits have always been a staple of GOP health policy proposals.

In its analysis of the American Health Care Act’s potential impact the Brookings Institute concluded that 15 million people would lose coverage over the course of 10 years.