Might be due to the fact that the new bill keeps most of the old bill in place. All of what they are trying to do has to be able to go through the budget reconciliation process in the senate. They can only change the taxes and subsidies that way. In short they are giving millionaires a tax cut paid for by kicking poor people of Medicaid. Just like Jesus would do.
It's a shame everyone didn't get to keep their crappy plans that didn't actually cover anything and would still cause bankruptcy.
You just can't stand the idea of an individual making a choice that the US National Central Government can dictate.
What if their choice is universal healthcare?
Oh really? Maybe you should Tweet that to Drumpf.
True, but they can vote in the folks who do write the laws.
they are counting people who will fall off because the mandates gone, plus they suck at predicting things
they are not kicking anyone off. Everyone who gots it now stays on it. It will be up to the states who they want and who they enroll. States under Obama care who expanded Medicaid are having big time trouble now because the government funding falls after a few years. it is blowing holes in budgets
people are trying to say people on it now, will be kicked off. They won't
Ok. $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid funding won't kick anyone off? People having the "freedom" to not buy insurance only raises the prices for everyone else. They will still use services, but the cost will be passed on to everyone that has insurance. Premiums and deductibles will go up. Any other "phases" of legislation can't pass the senate because they won't have 60 votes, this is all they have.
Medicaid is not going to be expanding like it is now, Meaning future enrolles have until 2019 to enroll. States will have to make up the difference if they want to expand it. Also it don't affect those 65 and older. plus able body adults will now have a work requirment
Has for not buying insurance it depends, the price, what is covered etc.. If there are more plans at cheaper prices then people will buy it. Right now your being forced to buy plans you don't necessarily need. Why does a single male age 45 need to pay for pregnancy and stuff.
It's not an abstract thought experiment. We know what enrollment was like before the ACA before the mandate, it was bad. The point of including essential benefits is so you know what's covered in every plan. If an uninsured pregnant women comes to a hospital and has an emergency c-section the hospital doesn't pass that cost along to only women of child bearing age. The cost is passed on to everyone. That 45 year old male is paying either way so might as well pay upfront and try to control the cost.
that's point and you got it, you design a plan so that single male is paying for himself, you design a plan for woman who want essential benefits. People need to pay for what they get in their plan
