Concensus? Maybe for you Congressweasels, Eddie, but not for the Yertle in the Senate.
Or more importantly, the rational folks in America.
Good to see the house f’ing with the senate again.
“It helps us get to consensus,” he said.
You already got to the “you’re fucking nuts” consensus with the original AHCA. Only gluttons demand more winning to add to their collection of so much winning.
So the “things” that states will be allowed to 1) opt out of will be the inability of insurance companies to exclude people based on pre-existing conditions and instead pushing them into these so-called risk pools, and 2) eliminate the basic benefit requirements.
Yeah, that should work out well for the congress critters who support this amendment to the ACA.
One man’s “consensus” is another man’s garbage. For example, there is real consensus per polls to see Trump’s tax returns before okaying tax reform that could prove a windfall for Trump. Yet I do not see you Repub guys in any rush to subpoena these.
(Edit) There is no way to around it. The Repubs favor only access to health care which is a way of favoring keeping the poor and those who really need it from getting it.
Incremental governance.
Again…all I want to hear from Dems is “WE FUCKING DARE YOU.”
So the “moderate” Kleptocrat Party proposal is just another way to kick people off of their insurance plans by masking the process with high-risk pools that didn’t work before. Got it.
Great way to launch the next 100 days = another gigantic ACA failure.
It must be tough to see your political career, carefully constructed on a foundation of bullshit, come tumbling down when the job suddenly demands competence.
In the “health care for profit” business model the cap on annual premiums is the projected cost of treatment plus overhead and an ROI not to exceed what the market will bear.
Actually, there is one other crucial piece of this amendment that does help congress critters. They are excluding Congress members from these changes.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/330592-house-gop-health-bill-changes-exempt-members-of-congress
Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.
House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged me to this particular issue.
There’s an additional amendment that is going to save a bunch of money on treatment, and it’s expected to get 100% Republican support.
It’s best represented by this graphic:
The amendment would allow insurers to charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions in states that get a waiver. To obtain the waiver, states would have to provide sick people priced out of commercial insurance access to a so-called high-risk pool run by the federal government, or establish their own, and satisfy other conditions.
I hope Dems take advantage and make this an oft-repeated slogan: “If the GOP proposed changes are good for people, why are they exempting themselves???”
The new amendment exempts members of Congress from their deregulation of the health insurance industry. If you live in a GOP Rep’s district, send a fax or get on the phone line - mine is backed up but I’m going to keep trying.
If Congresscritters were forced to buy insurance on the open market we’d have single-payer before dinnertime.
Don’t know why they left that out of this article…That’s the lede as far as I’m concerned. States can opt out, in most cases against the will of the majority in those states that want to keep Obamacare (because its working as it should), but don’t anyone dare take away Congress’s bennies from those plans. They’ll be able to keep all of theirs. Pure hypocrisy yet again.