EDITORIAL: Another dreadful health care bill
They are, yet again, vigorously opposing
Eleven governors, including five
The president of
But too many of them are so fixated on repealing the Affordable Care Act that they are prepared to ignore the many flaws of the latest proposal, which was put forth by Sens.
Consider this comment from Sen.
Rep.
They may not be concerned about the substance of the repeal bill, but people in the business of delivering health care are, and the rest of us should be too.
The bill, known as Graham-Cassidy, would eliminate the requirement that people purchase health insurance -- leaving the rest of us to pick up the cost of care for free-loaders. The bill also would do away with safeguards for people with pre-existing medical conditions, erase requirements that insurance policies cover maternal care and mental health and allows insurers to reinstate lifetime caps on coverage. The net effect would be to price millions of people out of the market.
There's more. The Affordable Care Act expanded eligibility for Medicare and provided funding for states that opted in as well as subsidies for many people in the individual insurance market. Under Graham-Cassidy, that money would be replaced with state-by-state block grants. But the grants would expire after 10 years, and the states that didn't expand Medicaid would receive funding at the expense of those that did.
No state would be hit harder than
This would be a fundamental transformation of the health care system, and congressional
What's the rush? For parliamentary reasons, it will take 60 votes in the
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