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More on the GOP proposed slaughter- AHCA March 21, 2017 4:47 pm RL

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-gop-bill-could-change-health-care-in-8-charts/

But as was the case with the ACA, the biggest changes to health insurance under the GOP plan would be experienced by two groups of people: those with very low incomes and those seeking to buy insurance who cannot get it through an employer — they buy what is often called non-group coverage.

Let’s look at Medicaid, which would undergo significant changes under the GOP proposal. Obamacare allowed states to expand the health insurance program for the poor to cover a lot more people. Traditionally, the program provided coverage for pregnant women and children, people with disabilities, and older adults in need of long-term care. Under Obamacare, states can cover anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line (about $16,000 for an individual). The GOP plan freezes the expansion after 2019, which would automatically cancel the expanded program in some states1 and cause most people who received Medicaid under expansion to lose coverage in the rest of the states within a few years.
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Under the GOP bill, insurers could sell different kinds of plans (namely ones that are cheaper but offer less coverage), and subsidies would be based only on age. This change would mean that some people, likely those who are younger and healthier, might get more help buying insurance and would be able to buy cheaper plans. But people who are older and live in more rural areas would end up with less help to buy insurance and more expensive plans.

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The GOP bill also would roll back several taxes created by the ACA. They are taxes that largely affected business and the top 1 percent of earners.

Yet again the GOP attempts to literally kill poor people so that the top 1% can buy another yacht…

  • How it will be justified. by hank 2017-03-21 19:40:01

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