Conservative Lawmakers Join Rally Against GOP Health Care Plan

The American Health Care Act is here, and it has already earned a place in history.

Brian Kline, a colon cancer survivor, wanted to know why Price (and other Republicans) wanted to take away Medicaid expansion coverage (Obamacare). “It’s just not believable”.

That figure would grow to $2 billion a year by 2030 and could result in 600,000 Coloradans losing health insurance, the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan health care think-tank, predicts in the new report. Hospital stocks sold off after the November 8 presidential election of Donald Trump, who vowed to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy legislation.

NY officials say the Republican plan will leave 1 million state residents without health insurance and transfer $4.5 billion in costs from the federal government to state taxpayers. The CBO projects that by 2026, average premiums for policy holders would be roughly 10 percent lower than under current law. I remember looking at old blog posts I wrote back then saying this law doesn’t stand a chance, so I will not make those projections. What we want to make certain, though, is that every single American has access to the kind of coverage and care that they want for themselves.

Gov. Scott Walker expressed support of the federal government’s Medicaid reforms Wednesday in response to a letter that was sent to all governors, which aimed to ensure the program will be enhanced and meet each state’s unique needs. The overall United States population is projected to rise from 340 to 371 million by 2026; under the AHCA, at least 14 percent of Americans would lack healthcare coverage, compared to 7.5 percent under current law.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that enacting the House bill would reduce the deficit by $337 billion over a decade, lower. Deductibles would also be higher under Trumpcare than the ACA. He was asked by Dr. Mitch Jacques, a family physician, if members of Congress truly understand the hardship that patients will face if they lose their health insurance.

Ryan told reporters that GOP leaders could now “incorporate feedback to improve this bill, to refine this bill”, reflecting an urgency to buttress support.

During his campaign, Donald Trump promised to scrap most elements of Obamacare which is hugely unpopular among Republicans, who claim it imposes too many costs on business and intrudes into the affairs of individuals.

“This is historic. And it’s significant”, Ryan said over the weekend. Cost-sharing subsidies would be repealed in 2020, “significantly increasing out-of-pocket costs for nongroup (private) insurance for many lower-income enrollees”. “The attractive thing about this plan that we’re proposing, it is more freedom, it is more choices, it is more markets, it’s lower prices, which gets us better access”.

Regardless of the company’s motivations, its threat and subsequent follow-through “certainly was effective in terms of its impact on the Affordable Care Act, since Aetna’s withdrawal has become part of the Republican brief against the law”, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote in January. A recent Los Angeles Times analysis found those hardest hit by the GOP plan live in counties that voted for Trump. Susan Collins (R-Maine), voted against the bill.

Because of outspoken opposition to the Obamacare replacement plan from conservative activists and organizations, Meadows said, lawmakers were starting to work on legislation that “really repeals and really replaces Obamacare”.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer even went as far as to question the group’s accuracy. Many are expected to join Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have introduced legislation modeled after the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act.