Howard Dean, physician and Former Vermont Governor, just described a little discussed provision of repeal and replace. That is, in Obamacare there was a tax on high salaries (did Gov Dean say over $26 million?) of healthcare corporate CEO's (I'm not clear about whether it effects other CEO's). . That tax is repealed and ended in the GOP bill.
Gov Dean also says - and this is obvious - that the thousands (he said 50 million - that would include Medicaid recipient losses) who will loose their health insurance (through the change in Medicaid and subsidies) are in the poor states that voted for trump - like Kentucky and West Virginia.
One more thing - the new bill prohibits funding to Planned Parenthood for anything. That is payment to Planned Parenthood for women's healthcare -cancer screenings and birth control - among other things. Who uses these services? young women, rural women, poor women, women who do not have a gynecologist.
Maybe the Obmacare ACA needs refinement. The GOP bill hurts healthcare delivery in the USA, doesn't help. Interesting - no GOP legislator is talking about it today. Hmm. I wonder why.
Post script - I'm hearing that the provision ending state lines for writing policies is in the bill. Great (that's sarcasm). The result will be that states like Mississippi will allow simple bills at low cost that offer limited services while state like New York, New Jersey, California will insist on policies with good provisions for the insured but at higher cost. Naturally, most people will go for the Mississippi policy and eventually put the NY NJ CA policies out of business. The perfect formula for dumbing down healthcare to crap.
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