Graham-Cassidy is a shell game
The Senate’s Graham-Cassidy bill, the latest in a series of
And on you, the unsuspecting funders of care for the uninsured.
Did you know, according to Medicaid.gov, nearly 3 million Pennsylvanians receive some form of Medicaid? The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities projects
Yet people don’t stop getting sick because they don't have insurance. And if they are sick enough to require hospital admission, then federal law states they must be admitted and treated. And that care, often late in a disease process, is the costliest.
Hospitals have budgets, too. Expenses here are made up for by charges there. Uncompensated care gets added to the cost of services provided to insured patients. You don’t get billed for a procedure you never received, but the charges for a procedure you did receive are raised enough to help offset the costs of uncompensated care. In the end, somebody pays.
That somebody is you.
Your insurance premiums rise when your insurer has to pay for the inflated charges. Your Medicare payroll taxes cover the inflated costs Medicare incurs when your elderly parents get admitted. The Medicare trust fund drains faster.
Graham-Cassidy “Trumpcare” is a shell game intended to pay for the GOP’s lavish perks to the wealthy at your expense while also succeeding in bankrupting the very people who by virtue of illness are often too sick to have an insurance-providing job.
And some day, that may be you.
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