HIV Medicine Association Issues Statement on Senate Tax Legislation
"The tax reform bill passed by the
"Insurance works when risk is shared across healthy populations and those needing more medical services at a given time. The individual mandate for most Americans to purchase health insurance enables Affordable Care Act insurance reforms that include requiring health plans to cover people with pre-existing conditions and prohibiting higher premiums based on health status. Repealing the individual mandate will destabilize the non-group insurance market, increasing premiums and other health care and treatment costs for those who need the insurance the most, including people with HIV. The
"We should never forget that successful treatment of HIV requires continuous access to medications and care in order to avert progression to AIDS, costly hospitalizations, and loss of productivity. Moreover, continuity of access to medications and care is required for the durable viral suppression that curtails the HIV epidemic by eliminating new HIV infections and their associated lifelong costs to the healthcare system, both public and private.
"Increased healthcare costs will be compounded by the significant cuts that will be required in federal funding for discretionary programs and automatic cuts to the Medicare program and the
"We urge our senators, as they evaluate this bill, to consider the 1.1 million Americans living with HIV. We also urge senators to support bi-partisan efforts to raise the budget caps and stabilize the non-group insurance market."
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