US health insurance bill faces stiff opposition stat : Al Jazeera

The new Republican health insurance bill is facing opposition from some of its own senators in the lead-up to a vote to approve it later this week. "When you throw over 23 million people off of health insurance, thousands of people will die," he said. Call for slowdownRon Johnson of Wisconsin, one of the Republican senators who oppose the bill, called for a slowdown in the process to give the Senate and the public time to evaluate the health insurance bill. I don't have the feedback from constituencies who will not have had enough time to view the Senate bill. Governors now face the challenge of deciding whether to reduce medical services, limit who can enrol in a health insurance safety net, or make cuts to other state programmes such as education or transportation.




The act offers someone like me, a longtime health insurance observer and analyst and a former health insurance counselor, plenty to talk about. First, it would reduce overall subsidies for health insurance premiums by calculating them based on an assumption that health insurance would cover about 58 percent of health care costs, instead of the ACA's 70 percent. In doing so, the new bill would cause approximately 22 million people to lose their health insurance and access to care. The changes would reintroduce challenges faced by individuals before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, struggles I observed while providing health insurance counseling and support. The job offered health insurance, but there was a 30-day waiting period before it kicked in.

Analysis: U.S. Senate health care bill would axe insurance for 440,000 Oregonians

A new Oregon analysis says the U.S. Senate's proposed repeal and replacement of the federal Affordable Care Act would cause nearly 440,000 Oregonians to lose health insurance coverage by 2021. Critics have said the cost-cutting bill would slash health insurance, especially for low-­income people. The number of people in Ore­gon without health insurance would triple to 15 percent, according to the review by the Ore­gon Health Authority and the state Department of Consumer and Business Services. The analysis also said that starting next year, an estimated 110,000 people would lose their private or group health insurance under the Senate proposal. Supporters say the federal government needs to reduce spending on health care so it can afford to pass income tax cuts.


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