Trump’s Backing a Healthcare Plan That Breaks His Promises

Comparing U.S. per-capita public spending on health care to the United Kingdom, where everyone is covered, in 2013, the U.S. spent $4,197, while the United Kingdom spent $2,802, a 40 percent difference.

Reporter Jenny Wagner’s article, “State, Bucks County officials react to Republican ACA replacement plan”, provides a range of local statistics and stories, and the Kaiser Family Foundation has excellent resources on its web site for those interested in comparing the Affordable Care Act to the proposed replacement.

Casey talked about what he sees as the impact of the legislation.

Trump was clear both as a candidate and as president: No one would be left behind under his health care plan.

“And yet his scheme decimates Medicaid and undermines Medicare’s finances”, Casey said. Consumer and healthcare opponents chafe at the draconian cuts to Medicaid, tax breaks for the rich and insurance companies, and for shifting the burden from the wealthy and healthy to the poor and the elderly.

“We have benefited from expanded Medicaid and other ACA coverage”, Griebsch said. Ryan said, “The idea of Obamacare is … that the people who are healthy pay for the people who are sick”.

“To begin to put the burden on older people is pretty devastating to me”, she said. While it reduces the federal deficit by $337 billion over 10 years, it’s also estimated to leave 24 million Americans uninsured by 2026.

Charlotte Kitler, from Nanticoke, provided remarks on the call.

Chaos surrounds the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

President Donald Trump rode to the White House making big promises on health care – pledges that he is now in serious danger of breaking.

Kitler said Medicare is running out of money, and it is now projected to become insolvent in 2028. The report concludes that given inflation and rising health care costs, Utah can expect the budget gap for the coming years to significantly exceed what it would have been in the past. That would make Medicare insolvent in 2024, which is seven years from now.

“Thanks to lobbying efforts of reproductive rights and justice advocates in 2005, West Virginia passed its own contraceptive coverage mandate known as the Prescription Fairness Act”, said Margaret Pomponio, director of nonprofit WV Free.

Liebert agreed that NY, as well as CT, will likely ensure that adequate care is given to low-income patients, though he couldn’t say the say for some of the country’s more rural areas.

Under the ACA, older citizens who do not yet qualify for Medicare can be charged no more than three times the amount charged to younger people for their premiums. Ever-increasing deductibles and copays combined with inadequate coverage – frequently leaving out vision, dental and mental health, for instance – cause us to delay seeking care for as long as possible or to avoid it altogether. But GOP leaders are mainly interested in getting that “repeal and replace” step done without looking at the consequences. These statistics are even more alarming when you consider that Americans see medical professionals far less often than people in countries with universal health care.

However, a proposed repeal of taxes specific to the pharmaceutical industry fees and medical device industries, would be a credit positive for those industries, helping to offset the negatives. Forty years of medical practice later, I continue to have difficulty understanding medical insurance policy verbiage and wonder if that is the writers’ intent.