One-third of Americans unaware ObamaCare, ACA are the same

February 10 08:09 2017

Prevention is always less expensive than treating disease.

He said that the idea that hospitals’ bad debt would go down under the Affordable Care Act did not materialize.

“We may reach a situation in 2018 where many Americans have a subsidy through the Affordable Care Act to buy insurance in the individual market, but they don’t have any insurance to buy”. It was one of his signature legislations. Twenty million more Americans now have health insurance. “Make it more affordable, more usable”.

“The Affordable Care Act repeal is going to cost NY state $9 billion”, Ithaca resident Leslie Danks Burke said during the public comments.

Immigrants also received a greater coverage, and so did all the minority communities.

And 45% did not recognize that repealing Obamacare would eliminate the ACA.

But now Oller is among the Kentuckians that are anxious that the health insurance she has spent years signing people up for may disappear if there’s a repeal of Obamacare by President Donald Trump, even though she voted for him.

“It’s far from flawless but it’s gone a long way toward insuring a lot more people”, Johns said.

Paul Ryan is determined to reduce government benefits for the poor as fast as possible.

Republicans have yet to fully devise and agree on a replacement to Obamacare, although in January a pair of GOP senators introduced one alternative measure.

This news has created a sense of un-surety among insurance holders. He said he supports repealing a tax on medical devices in the ACA.

House conservatives are pushing for a hearing on a reconciliation bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act.

There was a persistent belief that Trump would fix these problems and make Obamacare work better. The cost of repealing it, undoing it and setting up a new – and as yet – unknown system must be very high.

The congressional report was exclusively focused on the impact of abolishing Obamacare and did not consider replacement legislation.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

The Senate may vote on Price’s nomination within days, and his confirmation would add momentum to Republican plans to repeal or “repair” the ACA.

And in an interview that aired just before the Super Bowl, President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged that the effort to remake the health law could last into next year.

Reuters

One-third of Americans unaware ObamaCare, ACA are the same
 
 
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