Charts That Explain The CBO Report On The Republican Health Plan

The GOP’s proposed health law, the American Health Care Act, has some mental health and addiction treatment advocates anxious. Ron Johnson says the Republican health care proposal back by President Donald Trump doesn’t do enough to curtail eligibility for Medicaid or to reduce health care premiums.

In an emotional question to start the town hall, a man who said Medicaid saved his life and kept him from financial bankruptcy asked Price why he supported a plan that would sunset the Medicaid expansion in 2020 given that so many – like himself – had found care on it.

In an analysis he finished last weekend, Ballard wrote that if Republicans succeed in passing this plan, “tens, maybe hundreds of thousands in MI would lose coverage”, and without any doubt, more and more will die needlessly.

The vast majority – 72 percent of respondents – said they were familiar with the Republican plan to repeal and replace part of Obamacare.

From a political standpoint, Republicans and President Trump promised in 2016 to repeal Obamacare and they believe that they have no alternative but to do so.

Imagine some of today’s Harrys and Louises: a 62-year-old man echoing complaints of the AARP that he would have to pay more while younger, healthier people pay less; a cancer patient who worries that she’ll lose access to treatments that were covered under Obamacare; a struggling lower-income couple who would be threatened with losing Medicaid coverage; perhaps a handful of working-class citizens griping around a coffee table about how rich people were spending the tax cuts paid for by their vanished insurance subsidies. In many areas, insurance companies are pulling out of the exchanges and there is a prospect of a complete lack of options.

Some of what the House Republicans’ plan attempts to do is to restore at least some free market opportunities to the system. Thirty-one states opted to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, and many Republican governors and senators hailing from those states oppose changes that would weaken the program.

Among those benefiting from Indiana’s expansion is Michael Boone, a 55-year-old cook from Gary.

Still, Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., said there’s a big difference between requiring a surcharge for lapsed coverage and finding the uninsured. “We shouldn’t release the pressure on our elected officials until they answer: why does it have to be this way?”

His coverage could be a casualty if the Medicaid cuts take effect and IN cannot find a way to pay for a larger share.

“I’m from an area that got two feet of snow (Tuesday)”, said Kitler, who is from northeastern Pennsylvania. “But right now, I’m scared to death”.

State governments run Medicaid with reimbursements from the federal government. Also, if there is a major outbreak of a new disease or a new procedure developed, those costs will not be reimbursed to the state.

How the expiration of that waiver and the rescinded Medicaid expansion under the new bill would affect the costs to taxpayers is unclear for now. “How would we also make our pension payment and pay for everything else?” The careful, middle-aged driver who has never had a claim could get the same level of insurance coverage for a tiny fraction of the cost faced by someone with a bad driving record and/or a conviction for drunk driving.

Specifically, conservatives want Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to end sooner than proposed in the Ryan plan, and want to introduce Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults without children.

Universal catastrophic coverage might not satisfy conservatives, for whom the primary ideological objection to Obamacare is that it makes the individual dependent on the state.