Murphy Calls Out Trump Administration For Sabotaging Health Care In Hearing With Sec. Azar
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MURPHY CALLS OUT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR SABOTAGING HEALTH CARE IN HEARING WITH SEC. AZAR
Murphy: "At some point, 90 percent price increases are going to force people off [insurance] no matter how big the subsidies get"
Go to: - https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=2lp782vO-ps&feature=youtu.be to view video of Murphy's remarks.
Murphy said, "Even with this deliberate campaign of sabotage, even with the administration cutting the open enrollment period in half, even with the administration stopping to market these plans, even with the administration refusing to pay for the navigators, the same number of people signed up last year that signed up the year before. I don't think that will continue, because at some point, 90 percent price increases are going to force people off no matter how big the subsidies get."
In a floor speech yesterday, Murphy laid out the facts of how the Trump administration is systematically sabotaging the American health care system. Murphy emphasized that health care premiums have already risen as much as 91 percent, and that the Trump administration's efforts will force people in
Highlights of Murphy's exchange with Azar are available below:
MURPHY: I want to continue along the line of questioning from
This is a quote from the head of the largest health insurance company in
In making that statement, he talked specifically about PPO plans, which are favored by sicker patients, people with chronic illness, and in fact, in one of those plans, in the recent rate filing, premiums went up by 90 percent in
The worry of course, as you know, is - and the reason why
So how do you gauge what insurance companies are already predicting - that there will be a massive migration of healthy people into these short-term plans that are now effectively a complementary option to the exchanges, driving rates up for people with pre-existing conditions, people who simply can't go on those plans if they don't cover everything they need?
AZAR: Senator first, good to see you again. I would say first, it is important to remember that what's been proposed, nothing is final, but what's been proposed on the short-term plans is to restore what
The individuals that these plans are going to be available for and that's going to make sense for, folks that have been left out in the cold by the Affordable Care Act. Now those 28 million folks who are sitting out there who can't afford these sky-rocketing price increases that happened under
But what we really have to be working on together is fixing what is wrong, what's not working here, which is the Affordable Care Act. It's not delivering, the price increases were happening before
MURPHY: It's just not, with all due respect, it's just not true it's not functioning. Even with this deliberate campaign of sabotage, even with the administration cutting the open enrollment period in half, even with the administration stopping to market these plans, even with the administration refusing to pay for the navigators, the same number of people signed up last year that signed up the year before. I don't think that will continue, because at some point, 90 percent price increases are going to force people off no matter how big the subsidies get.
So, I'm very worried,
Thank you
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