Priebus doubts states will choose to charge sicker people more

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said Sunday he doubts states will take the option of letting insurance companies to charge sicker people more if the GOP health care bill the House narrowly passed Thursday becomes law.

“It doesn’t affect anyone with continuous coverage, even if a governor — which I’m not sure that’s ever going to happen — takes the waiver option,” Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The bill, which now moves to the Senate, would let states seek waivers from the federal government to allow insurers to base premiums on a person’s health status —  a practice that was prohibited by the Affordable Care Act.

The higher price could be charged to people who buy coverage on the health exchanges set up by the ACA, instead of getting it through an employer or a government program like Medicare and Medicaid. It would apply for one year for people who were purchasing insurance after a lapse in coverage. And it would lower premiums for healthier people.

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[KentuckyWoman]

1. I doubt Priebus has any damn sense.

"It will lower premiums for healthier people "

#1 Bullshit.

#2 Birth is a pre-existing condition.

#3 This shit was planned before the ink was even dry on ACA.

[CentralMass]

2. Priebus is an asshole.

[Phoenix61]

3. If no governor would use it, why include it?

Lying sack of shit. They are playing hot potato with people's lives. Fuckers!

[gratuitous]

11. Yep

Who would have thought that states would refuse the Medicare expansion? But once that become an optional rather than a mandatory feature of the Affordable Care Act (thanks to the Republicans' relentless pursuit of their case all the way to the Supreme Court), a whole bunch of states chose to kill their own citizens rather than accept e-e-e-e-e-evil federal government money. And which states were those? Take a wild guess, but here are some examples: Texas, Idaho, Alabama, and Mississippi.

Preibus being extremely disingenuous here, but his health insurance will remain intact, so what does he care?

[Docreed2003]

4. No lie is too big for these scoundrels....

[2naSalit]

5. Since he's only...

chief of staff, why the hell is he on the teevee talking policy?

He left his job where he had a minimal role in discussing policy, now he has a job where that activity is not part of his job description. Correct me if that's not the case.

[duncang]

6. Just when you think

The WH can't stuff anymore stupid between their ears. They talk in public and prove you wrong.

[dalton99a]

7. Yeah, I doubt insurance companies will think about charging more

[rickford66]

8. Is TrumpCare going to use the "ObamaCare" website ?

Obama got hammered because of the glitches on the site and the administration spent a lot of manpower to fix it, with NO help from the GOP. And now they're going to use it? I'd force them to build a new one and sit back and watch the fun.

[Doreen]

9. Lying sack of s**t.

[MedusaX]

10. He failed to mention that States will use the waiver option

For Age based increases beyond the bill's allowable 5x rate increase ....
since that will apply to every person beyond a specific age even with continuous coverage in place..

And states can use the waivers to attract insurance providers with the possibility of huge rate increases..

Besides....
the only way for states to gain access to the federally allocated funds earmarked specifically for 'increasing affordability'
is through waiver based programs ...
with no designated minimum % of funds which must be used to provide direct subsidies to individuals

Plus....
there will always be the possibility that people will have a lapse in coverage...
which would lead to "Pre-existing" classification upon returning to the marketplace ......

Governors & state legislators will do whatever it takes to appeal to the industry in order to maximize campaign contributions ......

[uponit7771]

12. "...I'm not sure ... " Cartoonishly evil and callous thing to say about someone else's health ...

[Egnever]

13. So why is it in the bill then?

Pretty pointless to put it in the bill if you don't expect anyone to use it. Unless you were just trying to get the asshole vote of course.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Unless you were just trying to get the asshole vote of course.

Bingo

[spanone]

15. then take that provision out...NOW