Georgia Governor: Don’t Punish States that Refused Expansion

In it, he said he would not defend then-presidential candidate Trump – “not now, not in the future”. Today consumers in one-third of all US counties have a choice of only one Obamacare insurer, and if they want to use their tax credits, they must buy from the sole insurer. The federal government now matches that amount.

“They do a pretty good job with numbers – coverage is not their strong suit”, Price said.

“What my plan is is that I wanna take care of everybody. But I believe there is still enough middle ground, enough breathing space that it keeps everybody on board in the asks that we have made”, Walker told reporters.

It’s not turning out that way – at least not under the GOP health care bill that Trump has endorsed.

The House GOP bill repeals elements of the Obama law, including the “individual mandate” that penalizes people who don’t have insurance. And though he’s been one of Trump’s unwavering supporters, including using his position on the Armed Services Committee to defend the president over Russian Federation, he’s not ready to fall in line yet, especially given the mixed signals Trump has sent on whether he actually supports the bill as-is.

The report said the GOP plan would lead to 24 million Americans losing health care coverage over the next decade, without providing details for individual states. The ACA’s targeted subsidies would be replaced with less affordable tax credits and parents will end up having to pay more for less comprehensive coverage – or go uninsured altogether.

The GOP bill still hasn’t been finalized; Republicans will try to do that in coming days. Older and lower-income folks would be hit particularly hard.

About 2.2 million citizens, or 23 percent of Michigan’s population, receive health care or long-term supports and services through Medicaid, which could be greatly reduced under a block grant approach to funding.

Deal, a Republican, said Wednesday that he’s not certain that would happen under the proposal backed by congressional Republicans and the White House.

Under Obamacare, some 20 million people gained coverage.

The CBO report also said the proposal would cut the federal deficit and average premiums would drop after a few years, but highlighted that some of the most vulnerable demographic groups including the elderly and low-income people would face steep premium hikes.

The rest of the state’s Republican congressional delegation has not taken a public position on Ryan’s plan: Reps. Some states, like Arizona, saw much larger increases. But like most reporting on major issues, the coverage is about who’s up, who’s down, who wins, and who loses. Now insurers can charge an older person three times more than a younger person for the same policy. They paid less than 10% of their income for insurance. Opioids now kill more people than vehicle accidents, and in 2015 the number of heroin deaths nationwide surpassed the number of deaths from gun-related homicides. “Tax reform is one way to get there”. “And it comes with the cost of a little bit slower economic growth”.

As someone whose family’s premium has nearly doubled in recent years, I’ve come to believe that Obamacare, with all its flaws, is a mere stepping stone for the nation slowly finding its way, after lurches and detours, to a more equitable healthcare system. To make that vision a reality, one of the best things Obamacare did was make it illegal to be barred from getting an insurance plan because of a pre-existing condition. Children are almost half of Medicaid recipients and any changes to Medicaid would have a disproportionate impact on the quality comprehensive child specific health and mental health services and treatment children now receive and need. They will wind up paying a lot more to get medical care. Because it helped juice the Affordable Care Act’s CBO score. Would state-level mental health parity laws apply to Medicaid plans? State and local governments would have to cut eligibility, services or both to continue to provide comparable care to the 37 million children now enrolled in Medicaid. And it would limit federal support for the entire program, which covers more than 70 million people.

To see the potential impact of the bill as it stands, here are five charts, based on the CBO analysis.

An optional plan to help the state stabilize private insurance markets would also be costly.

It should surprise no one that Obama’s pie-in-the sky promises have been broken and his plan is on fire and crashing to Earth.

The House GOP plan phases out the expansion after 2020, which means Arizona would have pay steadily rising costs or people would lose coverage. It’s easy, after all, when you’re just the opposition.