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Looks like the hard right wants to kill healthcare insurance all together by removing the requirement to provide essential components.
ESSENTIAL health benefits.
Inpatient care
pre and post natal care.
Mental health and substance use
Your prescription drugs
rehabilitation, (massive amount in here)
lab tests
Preventive care..
chronic disease management. (so most pre existing conditions WILL cost more )
Pediatric services
emergency room
(that is my cut down quick list the real one has vastly more in it)
This is last second plan to allow insurers to sell "hollow" insurance to consumers will end up as a race to the bottom This will result in everyone having to be an insurance expert and a doctor just to buy insurance
This is perhaps the worst possible way insurance could ever be sold. Consumers will be forced to drill down and fully understand every single word in the fine print to buy insurance.
This would be worse than it was before Obamacare, poeple will buy insurance, try to use it, only to find buried in the small print almost everything is excluded. Shifting the costs back to the buyer. Most people will NOT be able to navigate the obstacle courses that insurers will build to hide the lack of coverage.
Remember one of the huge wins for Obamacare was capping the percentage PROFIT insurers could take. Trumpcare will allow them to sell you plans that are all profit almost no cover. This is what the GOP wanted all along, a clean path to getting back to ripping off Americans.
I just want to buy an insurance policy that fits my needs. Choice is not having the exact same plans from BCBS, Aetna and Cigna to choose from. Health insurance should be as readily available and in as many different flavors as car insurance.
I like Mark Meadows take on healthcare. Totally scrap Obamacare and then come up with some sort of safety net for the 15% that didn't have it beforehand. Not free insurance for them and anyone wanting it would have to go through strict qualifications to assure tax dollars not wasted. Not taxpayers place to be paying coverage for anyone except those that TRULY need it. Tie in a work requirement like other countries and the system might be viable.
I just want to buy an insurance policy that fits my needs. Choice is not having the exact same plans from BCBS, Aetna and Cigna to choose from. Health insurance should be as readily available and in as many different flavors as car insurance.
And exactly what would those plans include/not include?
Why not just leave Obamacare completely intact as is, but repeal the individual mandate? The individual mandate is one of the biggest issues most people I know who oppose Obamacare have with it.
I can't believe that these people want to do this to the sick and downtrodden. They are truly evil people. Even worse, they are doing it while waving the Bible claiming to be doing God's work.
Red states already have the worst healthcare in the developed world. Combine that with high levels of medial debt, obesity, falling life expectancy, and an opioid crisis - you have a public health disaster. Republicans are screwing rural America with this bill.
We need affordable healthcare. We do not need health insurance. I do not envy the residents of all of the RED counties that Voted for The Donald and/or their Republican Legislators and Governors. These folks bought the spiel and are, along with the people that were not fooled, going to pay the price for this mistake.
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