‘Die-in’ staged in Virginia Beach in protest of ACA replacement vote

The writer is a dean emerita of Creighton University’s Graduate School and University College.

If they vote no, they fail to make good on their campaign promises, disappointing constituents who were hoping repeal will bring cheaper insurance.

An analysis by The Associated Press shows that many of those who buy their own health insurance stand to pay thousands of dollars more. She says she won’t be able to afford insurance under the new law, which Nelson was terrifying.

The president has long held that he will replace the Affordable Care Act with something better.

The GOP-controlled House will delay its vote on the bill, called the American Health Care Act, sources told CNBC. As a result, an estimated 15 million will lose their Medicaid coverage, or roughly 25 percent of people who now benefit from the program.

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Last week the Congressional Budget Office released a report stating that 24 million fewer people would have coverage within a decade and the level of the uninsured would jump 14 million next year, if the GOP’s health care blueprint is put in place by then. The only insurance available to me in Nebraska would cost more than half my small income.

The ACA included a tax penalty for people who did not have coverage during the year.

This is an age when one needs prescription medicines and/or hospital stays for treatment of chronic illness and aging joints.

One proposed change to offset increased individual costs is to allow larger contributions to health savings accounts, or HSAs. That’s what I and Congressmen John Conyers and Jim McDermott sought to do in 2003 when we wrote and introduced Medicare for All, HR 676, in the House of Representatives. Thursday will be the day that we keep our word that we will repeal and replace and continue on with phase two and phase three.

The main provision under the Affordable Care Act is that all Americans must be covered under a health insurance plan or be penalized at tax time.

According to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, based on current enrollment levels by county, 2.7 million New Yorkers would lose coverage, including 56,882 Staten Islanders at risk of losing health insurance coverage through Medicaid, qualified health plans that meet ACA requirements and essential plans.