Under Trumpcare, states would be able to apply for waivers that allow insurers to set far-higher rates for those with pre-existing conditions. Potentially premiums will be raised to prohibitively high rates that would prevent the purchase of any insurance.
As with the use of any insurance instrument, those with a greater likelihood of illness would be placed in high-risk pools. Ostensibly, Trumpcare would assure coverage of those in high-risk pools with supplemental funding of premiums. Under the plan passed by the House, $8 Billion would be set aside for supplemental funding for those states requesting waivers. Unfortunately, several estimates suggest that to minimally fund this requirement, an additional $130 Billion would be necessary over a five year period.
I pray the celebration by many who admit they haven’t even read the Trumpcare details will sooner or later regret their decision to pass Trumpcare at all cost. It seems that some of their constituents do more reading than their Representatives. There is no doubt the constituents will know what’s in the bill that hurts them, and as we have seen during past Congressional recesses, constituents will resist and persist. The sad thing is that during the last recess, as constituents pleaded for keeping Obamacare at those town hall meetings, some Representatives agreed to vote in their best interest as they heard the sad stories of what repealing Obamacare would mean. These same representatives went back to Washington and voted against their constituents!
In the aforementioned movie review, Chang offers
“…rest assured that “The Purge: Election Year” is never in danger of letting you confuse the haves with the have-nots. So long as the right people wind up dead, why not keep it going?”
Once again Republicans have shown their true colors and promoted a bill that threatens the healthcare of 24 million of our most vulnerable, while giving massive tax relief to the 1 percent. The right to healthcare established under Obamacare is now threatened with the replacement of Trumpcare’s “die quickly or suffer.”
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