Republicans rejected an amendment to the bill that would require it to "cover more people for less money" like Trump said it would.
Republicans rejected an amendment to the bill that would require it to "cover more people for less money" like Trump said it would.
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This is why I am cautiously hopeful that the republican plan will pass. It has every likely hood of crashing the insurance system as we know it and until that happens they simply to powerful of a lobby group to get single payer to fly. But if the insurance industry gets wrecked then what is left of them would have incentive to support some kind of single payer system with bonus private plans like some countries do.
So, Trumpcare is basically tax breaks for the wealthy, and less coverage for the poor/middle-class.
Yay?
Boy I've never been this happy about not living in the USA.
Judging by this thread, the bill is nothing more than Trump's favor to the insurance companies and wealthy individuals.
We'll who would have guessed
It won't crash the system it will bring it back to the way it was millions uninsured and insurance companies charging whatever they want. As a bonus the insurance companies and their executives will get huge tax breaks at the taxpayer's expense win win win unless you aren't rich then you are just screwed.
give a little detail, because i bet the new plan is going to cost you even more.
how could it not? every analysis so far says almost every segment of the population will see increases in premiums. there is no cost controls and the ones that were there are taken out, costing you more money.
only people saving money are business owners who will refuse to give healthcare after the requirement is scrapped, or folks making over 250k
No fucking sane person thought theyd have shit. The aca was mitt romneys plan to begin with. The same one heritage put forward in the 90s. These fucking republican right wing clowns thought they could sit back and hurl fucking bombs until it was theirs to govern and now it turns out governing is hard and healthcare is complicated! No shit fucking sherlock. Its especially fucking hard when you insist on balancing the entire fucking thing in favor of healthcare insurance middle men who just want to fucking profit out of the whole thing.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Maybe after a few more years of that loads of nonsense, you americans will figure out that a single-payer system works better than a unholy mess of private and public interests that has the downsides of both and the benefits of neither, unless you're a rich person that is.
But what am I saying, that would be socialism, and we can't have that.
OH THE HITS KEEP COMING
One item tucked into the GOP health care bill is a section that relaxes a provision in the Obama health law, which restricted how much health insurance companies could deduct on their taxes related to executive pay. Congressional tax experts testified that the provision will cost taxpayers $400 million over ten years –
meaning that health insurers will pay about $40 million less in taxes annually.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017...arty-line-vote
http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...story,amp.html
cOncealed within the 123 pages of legislative verbiage and dense boilerplate of the House Republican bill repealing the Affordable Care Act are not a few hard-to-find nuggets. Here’s one crying out for exposure: The bill encourages health insurance companies to pay their top executives more.
It does so by removing the ACA’s limit on corporate tax deductions for executive pay. The cost to the American taxpayer of eliminating this provision: well in excess of $70 million a year. In the reckoning of the Institute for Policy Studies, a think tank that analyzed the limitation in 2014, that would have been enough that year to buy dental insurance under the ACA for 262,000 Americans, or pay the silver plan deductibles for 28,000.
If you think everyone is getting fucked now, you're in for a real treat if this AHCA ever passes... which it's looking like it won't.
As someone who buys my own insurance, I would be hurt dramatically by the increase in premiums if it passes, but in a schadenfreude kind of way, I almost want it to pass, just so I can see all of the excuses from Republicans when it fails and we're forced to go single payer to clean up the mess.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
and on the countdown coming in at #3, its AHCH mandate cost more then ACA mandates.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cost-b...214439134.html
For example, a 50-year-old earning $47,520 annually would pay just $465 for being uninsured for six months under Obamacare.
But that same person but would be on the hook for up to $1,991 in penalties under the Republicans' plan if they were uninsured for the same time period and then signed up for coverage, the analysis finds.
Another Avalere chart showed how a 27-year-old person earning $35,640 annually would owe $695 in penalties under Obamacare for being uninsured for a full year.
That same person, if they sought to sign up under the Republican plan for coverage after year-long lapse, would owe $1,006 in penalties if they enrolled in the least expensive form of insurance, and $1,169 in penalties if they purchased the second-cheapest type of coverage.
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i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
So is the goal here for republicans to just say "we passed something" and hope democrats fix it in 2020?
get a black and white monitor then....
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you've been bent over since 1980's by insurance companies, drug companies, doctors, etc and now you have a problem with it.
were you not working during the roll out of HMO's in the 90's with 20% being normal rate increases after they gutted ppo?
were you not around in the 2000's when they hard core pushed denials, pre existing and approvals that never happened?
etc etc etc