Everyone needs good health care: Letter to the Editor

Joel Cantor, of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, addresses a conference on the impact of changes to the ACA at Rutgers University on Thursday.

The American Health Care Act AKA LoserCare passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week by party-line votes that included ayes from Michigan Republican Members of Congress Mike Bishop, Fred Upton and Tim Walberg.

Plans call for the House to pass a measure on March 20, then send it to the Senate.

More than 2.8 million Pennsylvanians now are enrolled in Medicaid, and more than 700,000 of those became eligible when the program was expanded in 2015.

A proposed federal healthcare plan that will replace the Affordable Care Act could mean schools will no longer face requirements for coverage of students and adjuncts. “It’s a fundamental philosophical shift in the role of government”, he said.

“It makes a difference knowing that if I go to the doctor, I know my inhaler or my Flonase will be covered instead of trying to come up with the money”, she said.

The change to freeze expansion funding by 2018 could save the government more than $100 billion over six years, Barton said. The Medical Association says that the new legislation is surfaced to replace the federal health care law. “The provisions were not created to promote access to health insurance”.

There has been no public statement yet on whether the new plan will provide coverage for contraception. The House bill does not simply roll back the expansion-it carves into the rest of Medicaid, too, and it eliminates the mental health and substance abuse coverage mandate.

The Republicans’ healthcare bill should have included a provision to put Medicaid under the authority of the states, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. “This is something governors have been begging for”, he said.

“It’s just brutal”, he said. There’s a lot more to digest in the Republican health care bill. “Some significant minority of Medicaid eligibles will be directly harmed by that provision”. According to federal analysts, Medicaid spending consumed about 15% of state tax dollars and 9.5% of federal outlays.

The comments immediately drew criticism from Medicaid advocates in Kansas, with some saying that Marshall mischaracterized and misunderstood people who are in the program. Low and moderate income individuals, who are more likely to be uninsured, will not earn enough to benefit from the proposed tax break structure.

“I think right now, that would be very hard to do”, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said at press conference, when asked it leadership was open to the idea.

“The program can’t be nimble if there’s an economic downturn or a health crisis”, Howard said. But Rep. Kathleen Peters said she wants more directed to it.

No matter how good you think your health is you never know when your troubles begin. He said that he will tell Pence that, while he will support efforts to reform healthcare, he does not favor the existing proposal. “People in more rural areas of Texas will have to shoulder more costs under this plan”, Pogue said. The number of uninsured working-age adults has dropped by 54 percent since 2013, to 7.7 percent, the lowest level ever recorded.

“People’s lives are at risk, and it seems like.you have to be rich to be healthy, and I am so opposed to that”, said Samantha Hypes, a medical social worker. Alaska spent a lot, so its per capita payment could be about double what a low-priced state like Alabama would get.

Those steps could significantly trim participation in the program and make it more expensive for states to cover poor residents – possibly forcing states to restrict eligibility.

Rates are set by the individual states and most by the insurance commissioner; Louisiana rates are set by your Legislature.

“Even if they do want to be in the game, they have to have the capacity”, Howard noted.