Trumpcare will cut coverage for all - including employer-provided plans (That means everyone!)

[sharedvalues]

Last edited Thu May 4, 2017, 12:15 AM - Edit history (1)

Trumpcare is likely to cut coverage for everyone -- including people with employer-provided plans. The bill will enable insurers to re-establish caps on total lifetime coverage as well as yearly coverage. So for anyone under the age of 65, no matter how you get your coverage, from your job or otherwise -- if you get cancer, or your kids do, you could go bankrupt and be unable to pay for care.

https://www.brookings.edu/2017/05/02/allowing-states-to-define-essential-health-benefits-could-weaken-aca-protections-against-catastrophic-costs-for-people-with-employer-coverage-nationwide/

In particular, a single state’s decision to weaken or eliminate its essential health benefit standards could weaken or effectively eliminate the ACA’s guarantee of protection against catastrophic costs for people with coverage through large employer plans in every state.

That means anyone under 65 will have their care cut by this new bill. Ugh.

[PA Democrat]

1. Thanks for posting. I wondered about this.

And without the requirements for businesses over 50 employees to offer health insurance coverage, I am guessing there will be a decline in employer-provided coverage as well.

[Freethinker65]

2. And anyone over 65 will have to wait a few months before Medicare is turned into

Means-tested coupons/vouchers

[procon]

3. Also, when some red state guts their insurance laws, then every state

can weaken or eliminate their coverage and drive up costs for people. This would include employer plans as well. If even one state got a waiver that allowed it to drop maternity services, mental health services, etc, the rest will topple like a line of dominoes.

[sharedvalues]

4. Yes. Nearly every American will now be at risk of getting cancer and losing everything.

At risk of getting cancer and losing everything. At best.

And getting cancer, losing everything, not being able to pay for more care, and dying. At worst.

[CousinIT]

5. Every goddamned red state will gut their insurance laws on Friday. n/t

[procon]

6. And they will do so gleefully, gloating over the human suffering they caused.

These new damages will make healthcare even worse than it was before Obamacare.

[enough]

7. Very important, thanks for pointing this out. And the younger you are,

the more likely you are to be caught by the lifetime cap.

[Vinca]

8. What if McConnell doesn't bring it up for a vote in the Senate? After all, Obamacare

is the most popular and most successful in Kentucky . . . they just don't want to admit it's Obamacare. If it goes away, the voters will notice.

[sharedvalues]

9. Yes let's hope it dies in the Senate

But it would be better if it doesn't pass the House.