Do You Speak ‘Repeal and Replace’?

America is a lot like Omar.

President Donald Trump and many congressional Republicans campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with their own plan to overhaul the nations health care system. “In most years after 2018, however, roughly 2 million fewer people would purchase insurance”, the report reads.

The GOP health plan would remove $40 billion from the Illinois’ current Medicaid program over the next 10 years, according to numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. He has argued that it was too expensive long term. However, the ACA did provide financing for a number of pilot studies to control health costs and gave a bit more authority to the Independent Payments Advisory Board to exercise bargaining clout with health care providers if costs exceeded certain benchmarks. They included high cholesterol, high blood pressure and a hernia. Now, every Republican politician reluctantly admits that all Americans deserve access to cheap, good medical care.

He added, “There’s no doubt that there’s plenty of room for improvement in existing law, but Trumpcare does not improve health care for Americans”. He was just the first one to do it.

Republican Rep. Tom Demmer of Dixon contended that although the Affordable Care Act succeeded in extending coverage, it has also led to increased premiums and restricted choices for individuals buying insurance on the state market.

“We aren’t interested in having anyone lose their health insurance”, Price responded. That included a number of Republican-led states, including IN under Vice President Mike Pence when he was governor there. Instead, he said, it should be whether it takes care of beneficiaries who need the program.

As Colorado lawmakers start considering next year’s budget in coming weeks, health care uncertainty may dominate debate. Would they have expanded state marketplaces and accepted Medicaid expansions, then greater the plans, the coverage, and the competition there could have been.

Saying that Obamacare is in “a death spiral”, Young maintains it must be repealed. Nice words, which totally ignore the fact that most of those covered by Medicaid can not afford any health insurance at any price. “While we are still doing an analysis of the aggregate effects of this law on our consumers, the likely effect of basing subsidies on age alone – rather than considering income and where an individual lives – is that it will make coverage unaffordable and in many cases, put coverage out of reach”. That’s how insurance works. It’s unthinkable that the House will consider passing a bill that not only drops 14 million Americans from coverage immediately, but could increase premiums by 20 percent. It worked for everyone. You can be sure Republicans don’t want millions of poor, white people coughing up phlegm, blood and doctors’ bills inside of voting booths during the midterm elections.

OK, maybe it’s a slight exaggeration, but nearly everyone-99 percent of Americans and all members of Congress-will win if the GOP health plan fails.

Citing a headline on an article in The Atlantic this week – “The AHCA’s tradeoff: giving up vital care to get tax cuts for the rich” – the senator said: “I haven’t seen a better short summary of the situation”. Once elected, Trump has moved away from his populist rhetoric and has embraced right wing policies that are anti-thetical to populism as advocated by his ideological guru, Steven Bannon.