NEW REPUBLICAN ATTEMPT TO GUT HEALTHCARE COVERAGE

September 17, 2017 bill HEALTH 0

A bill by Senators Cassidy (LA) and Graham (SC) to gut heath care coverage:

  1. Cuts funding by $400 billion over the next ten years
  2. “undermines rules designed to guarantee insurance for people with pre-existing conditions”
  3. eliminates requirements to cover many other conditions
  4. “…eliminates … subsidies and enhanced federal funding that underwrites the expansion of Medicaid in 31 states (plus the District of Columbia)”
  5. “[E]stablishes a “block grant” – handing money directly to the states” with no federal requirements for coverage
  6. “…transfers…money from Democratic states to Republican ones”
  7. Source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dont-look-now-but-full-obamacare-repeal-is-back-on-the-table_us_59bd9f2de4b086432b07a12a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009