This excerpt about the Senate BCRA plan was kind of revealing:
If the BCRA were to become law, a person who applies for coverage in the individual market and who cannot show that he or she has had 12 months of continuous coverage (defined as having no breaks in coverage longer than 63 days) would face a six-month waiting period before an ACA-compliant plan would be required to take effect.
However, the legislative language also specifies that bare-bones policies like those allowed by the Cruz amendment do not count as being “covered.” For purposes of calculating whether a person has carried “continuous coverage,” the bill states, such a plan “shall not be deemed creditable coverage.”
On its face, this reads like an implicit admission that the latest version of the BCRA would allow insurers to sell policies of such low quality that, even for purposes of the GOP’s own bill, can’t really be considered insurance.
“It’s an analysis of the Cruz amendment in a world that no one is talking about,” he said.
It’s like trying to calulate and predict the physical conditions of this universe, for example, the weight bearing properties of a girder, based on different physical constants in an adjacent “bubble universe.”
“Camelot!”
“Camelot!”
“Camelot!”
“It’s only a model.”
“Sssh!”
Is this argle bargle or jiggery pokery? I do know that whatever Cruz puts his name on will not be up to snuff or scratch.
The HHS report does not divulge its methodology for calculating how people would respond to the availability of cheaper, non-ACA compliant plans, saying the models are “proprietary.”
We, the taxpayers of the United States, paid for that analysis. It is not, and cannot be, “proprietary.” Sounds like it’s time for another FOIA request.
Is this the same HHS that is headed by Tom Price?
This is brilliant, in a disgusting evil way. It means that if someone is carrying (and paying for) insurance that doesn’t cover the condition that strikes them, and tries to switch to insurance that does cover that condition, they can’t get the new policy for at least six months, and will pay a surcharge for it when they do get it. It sorta-kinda addresses the death spiral problem caused by abolishing the mandate – by imposing a death sentence on the customer instead.
Thank you! That is exactly what I thought. HHS is not a company. They are a department of the taxpayer-funded federal government and they do not own the product of their work. Anything they produce belongs to us!!!
Jesus Christ. can we please deport all republican voters.