On Final Word - People W/Employer Health Insurance Lose Coverage Too.

[TheMastersNemesis]

If you have regular health care insurance the GOP bill will cost you as well. Even regular coverage will have reduction in coverage and increase in costs. Employers will be able to trim plans already in force. Plus one sickness likely to put individual in "high risk". That would mean regular insurance likely lost.

THE ENTIRE BILL IS A FRAUD. ALL THE MONEY GOES TO TAX CUTS FOR TOP 1%.

[Beartracks]

1. Republican Congress *is* the Death Panel they warned us about. n/t

[SunSeeker]

2. Yup, the AHCA sets up a health plan "race to the bottom."

As Robert Greenstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said tonight on MSNBC (on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell), this AHCA bill gives employers--no matter what state they are in--the option of offering no more than the minimum coverage of the cheapest (least patient protective) plan that exists in ANY state. So for example, even though CA may require maternity coverage, if the crappiest plan in the country is offered in Alabama, where the state has allowed employers to offer a plan with a $20,000 yearly deductible that does not cover maternity care, then employers in every other state, including CA can point to that plan and say they don't have to offer more than that.

And you can forget about subsidies helping you pay for a real health coverage plan after your employer refuses to offer one. The AHCA takes $1TRILLION that the ACA would use for healthcare subsidies and spends it on tax cuts. And the vast majority of these AHCA tax cuts would go to the richest of the rich. As Robert Greenstein said tonight, "the richest 400 people in the country would get an average tax cut of $7 MIILLION DOLLARS A YEAR EACH. That's what this bill REALLY does."