What the Senate GOP health care plan would mean

When Mr. Trump was “campaigning”, he promised that if he became president, he’d “guarantee that all Americans would have 100-percent affordable health coverage”, but what we’re hearing is his proposed health care bill isn’t at all what was promised! Under the Republican bill, we’d go back to those days.

The current Republican plan will consolidate healthcare in large cities and force more rural citizens to travel long distances for basic healthcare.

“A lot of people are realizing that the problems with an insurance-based system are not going to be solved by Washington”, said the bill’s sponsor, Assembly Health Care Committee Chairman Dick Gottfried, D-Manhattan. If it can’t, Republicans and Democrats should work together to mend, not end, a law that has significantly expanded Americans’ access to health care.

Interestingly, moderate Republican senators are in fact acknowledging the priorities embedded in the GOP plan when they criticize it for trying to roll back the help that the ACA is giving to millions and millions of poor people in order to finance huge tax cuts for the rich. “They know the American people hated the House Republicans’ move to pass a similar bill, so the only way to get it done is by ramming through a secret bill and upending the basic rules of our democracy”.

Those who came to the meeting to question the senator or raise concerns spoke to their personal experiences in dealing with the insurance system. That’s when the rollback of the Medicaid expansion that occurred under the Affordable Care Act would almost be complete and the caps on spending for the overall program would start to kick in. But this could all change under the Senate health care bill.

I am very concerned about proposals being considered by the Senate to cut Medicaid funding.

When fewer people have health care coverage, they are forced to seek medical care at the emergency room, the most expensive place to get care. If we want to save federal health care dollars, we should expand the cost-effective care options instead of eliminating them.

“I don’t think anyone who supports Trumpcare can call themselves pro-veteran”, said Will Fisher, government relations director for the group VoteVets and a former Marine who served in Iraq. How can I plan for my business’ future if there’s a significant drop in payment and patients are not coming in because they can’t afford health care? She said the state’s doctors and hospitals are doing a good job providing care, despite cost pressures. None of them, as far as I can tell, took even a cursory glance at the methodology of the study about which they were reporting.