"If the ACA is repealed or rescinded "it would be devastating for Medicare"

[still_one]

“If the ACA was repealed or rescinded in full, it would be devastating for Medicare,” says David Lipschutz, associate director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy, which along with AARP and Justice in Aging filed an amicus brief supporting California and 16 other Democratic-leaning states defending the health care law. Many of the law’s provisions that strengthen the program’s fiscal solvency also strengthen consumer protections for beneficiaries, he says.

“The ACA’s changes are so ingrained in the program that people don’t remember what Medicare was like before the law,” adds Casey Schwarz, senior counsel for education and federal policy at the Medicare Rights Center. Without the ACA, she says, the doughnut hole for prescription drug coverage, which closed in 2020, reopens, and “the expansion of preventive care services goes away.” The effects encompass both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, eliminating ACA improvements that helped drive costs down for the program and beneficiaries. Here’s what happens to Medicare if the court invalidates the law."



1. Medicare Doughnut Hole Returns
2. Medicare Preventive Care is no longer free
3. Medicare Advantage Plans Won't be as advantageous
4. Medicare Insolvency Accelerates
5. Medicare Premiums and Medicare Deductibles will rise faster

Details at the link:

https://www.kiplinger.com/retirement/medicare/601675/what-happens-if-the-aca-is-overturned

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. All the more reason the lying new supreme court justices

Will overturn it, they fantasize about taking healthcare away from the elderly

Remember Paul Ryan? After he got his he dedicated his political life to taking it away from everyone else with brown skin

[Bettie]

2. Keep in mind, it isn't "if"

it is "when".

The right wing money men are slavering over this and they will celebrate when their hand-picked court does their bidding.

They will cheer when our health care system is thrown into chaos overnight, because they can stop with using premiums for silly trifles like patient care and go back to using them for padding their own (already overstuffed) bank accounts.

[ooky]

3. The Georgia Senate races will essentially be a referendum on Healthcare.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/524886-democratic-hopes-on-healthcare-rest-with-georgia-senate-races

[still_one]

4. It should be

[Sogo]

5. The SC is supposed to rule on 11/10 about the ACA, so

if they overturn it, can we reinstate it if/when we win the two GA senate seats and thus the majority vote?

[Blasphemer]

6. Depends on their grounds for overturning it

It might become unviable. However, Medicare for All is Supreme Court-proof. So, overturning the ACA is high stakes for conservatives.

[ooky]

7. If it is overturned and we do need a new health care law, only a Democratic controlled

Senate will provide this. So, this will be an enormous opportunity for us to carry these two Senate races.

[subterranean]

8. They'll hear the case on 11/10. They won't rule on it until sometime next year.