GOP's Obamacare replacement bill would protect just 5 percent of people with pre-existing conditions
Source: CNBC
The Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare does not allocate nearly enough money to protect people with pre-existing health conditions from potentially higher insurance premiums, an analysis finds.
The bill's $23 billion in funding specifically for such people would cover just 110,000 Americans, according to the Avalere Health study released Thursday.
That's only 5 percent of the 2.2 million current enrollees in the individual insurance market with some type of pre-existing chronic condition.
And even if states were to add in all the other money in the bill's $100 billion Patient and State Stability Fund, only a total of 600,000 people with pre-exisiting conditions could be covered, the study found.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gops-obamacare-replacement-bill-would-protect-just-5-percent-of-people-with-pre-existing-conditions-analysis.html
Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)And the media will dutifully report their claims.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)They don't want to face constituents and voters.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)in those States that sued Obama over ACA,will and are the most effected by this GOP Death Panel Bill.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,260 posts)a whole lot of Rethuglican Congresscritters in the arse.