GOP wants return to what wasn’t working before in health care according to : tcpalm

This country needs a health care system that is cost-effective and provides affordable medical treatment to all its citizens, no matter their income level. The idea of health care in the United States being left to the free market has been the modus operandi for more than half a century. As Noam Chomsky, the renowned professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stated, the health care system in the United States is "an international scandal." Health savings accounts are certainly not the solution. The Affordable Care Act, which became operative a little over three years ago, was an attempt to modify that system and make health insurance more affordable.




"Under Trumpcare, one of the major ways to make health insurance affordable is to bring back catastrophic insurance, which is basically no insurance at all," she said, referencing low-premium, high-deductible plans that only cover certain procedures. I believe he's got the opportunity to go earn those health benefits." "I don't know anything about your son, but as you described him, his skills are focused in an industry that doesn't have the kind of options that you want him to have for health care," Davidson replied. "So, I don't believe that these taxpayers here are entitled to give that to him. Republican Rep. Warren Davidson made the remarks at a town hall last week in response to a woman's concern that a GOP plan to kill a Medicaid expansion provision in Obamacare would leave her son, who works in the service industry, without sufficient coverage.

Nothing has changed (Part 2): Reported amendment to GOP health care bill guts protections for people with pre-existing conditions

Last week, we reported reviving the GOP health care bill would mean more uninsured, costlier coverage in North Carolina. The amendment takes us back in timeThe reported Meadows-MacArthur amendment to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) would allow states to request waivers of key pre-existing conditions protections. Overall, it is clear the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is not fixable. On Friday unfortunately, Republicans in Congress reportedly reached agreement on an amendment that would eliminate key Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing health conditions. Plans would likely be able to impose annual and lifetime limits on coverage — including for people who get health coverage through their jobs.


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