Readers’ Views: Republican health care plan still not affordable

GOP leaders are using the RSC endorsement – and new words of support from President Trump – to try to build momentum for the measure.

The American Health Care Act is expected to come up for a full House vote in the coming weeks. “They may be taking care of aging parents”. A significant number of Republicans – including Rep. Yet it’s not clear that there are enough votes to pass the bill in the House and send it to the Senate, where it will face a fresh set of obstacles.

“I remain firmly committed to repealing Obamacare”, one of the RSC’s founding members, Representative Jim Jordan of OH, tweeted on Friday.

Other recent town halls held by GOP members of Congress have drawn large, boisterous crowds of people concerned about President Donald Trump’s administration and the GOP agenda in Congress. “I was highly disappointed in my Republican colleagues”. The CBO said a total of 24 million more people would be uninsured in 2024 under that scenario. Prior to the ACA, most of these persons were without any health insurance, and the only source of care funding was through the SAMHSA Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. But challenges must be based on credible assumptions and cost-reduction must not be based primarily on depriving millions of coverage and, therefore, depriving them of medical care. Their premiums will also be allowed to rise to five times the rates paid by young people.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is predicting that 14 million Americans who have health insurance under Obamacare could lose that coverage in the first year of the Republican replacement. Neither Obamacare nor Republican proposals include serious provisions for containing costs.

In the starkest example, the CBO calculated the impact on a 64-year-old with an income of $26,500. That’s because the GOP tax credit isn’t more generous for lower-income folks nor does it adjust for an enrollee’s premium like the Obamacare subsidies. But because it’s the fifth-wealthiest state, the feds only cover about half the costs.

Democrats say the Republican plan could hurt the elderly, poor and working families while giving tax cuts for the rich. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it “a wreck”.

This issue is tremendously important to Florida.

“Washington’s outsized role in health care has limited choice, driven up costs, and diminished the quality of care Americans receive”, Republican U.S. Rep. Wagner wrote in a post on Facebook. West Virginia, Kentucky and OH – states that have been hit the hardest by opioid addiction – casted their electoral votes for the republican reform in the 2016 presidential election.

“Step three requires us to believe that the left is going to join us in voting for things that will repeal and replace Obamacare”, he said.

Low-income people in their 60s would be hardest hit, the analysis found.

In what is now considered to be an opioid epidemic by leading government agencies, these potential changes to the Medicaid expansion could enable and extend the crisis by slashing Medicaid funds by $880 billion over the coming decade. Age rating plus the bill’s premium increases amount to an unaffordable age tax, which would price many vulnerable seniors out of the health coverage market. If they possess such skill, their first attempt utterly failed to show it.