Physicians reject House ACA replacement bill

Rep. Joe Kennedy III blasted the new plan and slammed Speaker Paul Ryan’s comments, in which he called the new health care plan an “act of mercy”.

The release of the House Republicans’ health care reform plan is the latest reminder that misguided objectives drive many policy decisions in Washington.

OK, Sac Bee, I realize you have a reputation for Democratic leanings.

Parkinson added: “We strongly encourage Congress to protect Medicaid access for seniors and people with disabilities in the Obamacare repeal and replace effort”. “Keep your promise to repeal Obamacare'”. GOP Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted Thursday morning: “House health-care bill can’t pass Senate w/o major changes”.

“This is Obamacare-lite”, FreedomWorks said ina Tuesday statement.

So 2015 wasn’t a full repeal either. The bill was introduced to the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce committees on Wednesday, which started a long debate process.

The Republican replacement plan will not necessarily cause a death spiral.

Under the plan, New Yorkers would lose about $400 million in tax credits now tied to their ability to pay for health insurance, according to the state’s analysis. Democrats and groups such as AARP, which advocates for older Americans, and the American Medical Association have come out strongly against the bill. States will be allowed to continue to enroll people into Medicaid until 2020.

One of the shorter discussions on an amendment involved one that would have repealed a provision calling for a 30% surcharge on new health insurance enrollees who have gone without coverage for 63 days in the 12 months immediately preceding enrollment.

GOP bill: Insurers could charge older customers up to 5 times what they charge young adults. “If people really need it, they show up to the emergency room, they do get care, it just gets passed on to other folks”.

Two of Obamacare’s most popular features are the requirement to cover people with pre-existing conditions the same as everyone else, and the requirement to cover dependents up to age 26.

Aside from the right-wing lawmakers who have condemned the measure for being too similar to Obamacare, other Republicans have rebuked it for taking away the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.

At least four Republican senators – all from states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA – have condemned the entitlements roll back, saying they can not support the as-written bill, as it would leave swaths of their constituents uninsured. “It is more of a free market bill than the Affordable Care Act and so I think that’s a positive but I’m not sure it solves enough of the problems”.

That letter – from Senators Rob Portman of Ohio, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia – exemplified why the Medicaid issue is so tricky for Republicans.

Tempers frayed overnight during several testy exchanges, including one over military veteran coverage in the proposed legislation and another on its costs – still unknown because the Congressional Budget Office has yet to “score” the bill. Those risks include any kind of health care a person might need from birth to death-prenatal care through hospice.

“Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice”, he said on CNN.

That, as more than a few people quickly pointed out on social media and in the mainstream press, is pretty much how insurance is supposed to work. Then the bill would move on to the Senate, and if it passes there will likely get signed into law by President Donald Trump. Now, I am working to become an insurance company CEO making more than $500,000 per year who will get a tax break under Trump’s “wonderful” health care plan or an individual making at least $200,000 per year, because I want my tax break.

The legislation now heads to the House Budget Committee.