trojanchick99
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So, the House GOP released their version of the ACA.
As expected it's Obamacare-lite. Now with less money for the poor!
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A conservative friend of mine sells health insurance. Here are his thoughts on one of the bills.
As expected it's Obamacare-lite. Now with less money for the poor!
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A conservative friend of mine sells health insurance. Here are his thoughts on one of the bills.
The House Ways and Means Committee bill actually affects the ACA, but not in any of the ways or means you might think.
It zeroes out the individual and employer mandate. It modifies the tax credit so rich people get more of the subsidy and the poor who are elderly will go bankrupt. It allows everyone to buy Catastrophic level insurance. It grants a bunch of tax cuts for rich people and the tanning bed industry. It essentially prohibits health plans from covering "elective" abortions, whatever that means.
"Catastrophic" insurance is not different enough from Bronze plans to make any difference whatsoever. Currently, the price difference is less than 1%, if it is cheaper at all. This is a shitty bill that does NOTHING to improve the situation and does not significantly alter Obamacare at all. It just shifts money that was being spent on the poor and elderly to the young and wealthy.
Any politician who votes for or supports this bill is a worthless human being. I don't often agree with Democrats who say that all Republicans want to do is take money from the middle class and give it to the rich. But that is ALL this bill achieves. It takes money currently being spent on the poor and middle class, then gives it to the rich in the form of a tax cut.
I expect everyone between the ages of 60 and 65 who earn less than 400% of Federal Poverty Level to be unable to buy insurance, if this passes.
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