Sarah Huckleberry Sanders has a BIG SAD over Arkansas healthcare costs. If ONLY we had a CLUE as to WHY! It's a MYSTERY! [View all]
Most Americans who buy a marketplace plan get financial help from the federal government through tax subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, the 2010 health reform legislation often called “Obamacare.” But those ACA subsidies are set to shrink next year, and congressional Republicans refuse to extend them.
Some 166,000 Arkansans get their insurance on the marketplace as of now. Most of them will face a major rate hike — or simply be priced out of coverage — if the changes take effect.
Last week, Gov. Sarah Sanders said the companies’ proposed rate hikes are “unacceptable” and called on the commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department to reject them.
It’s tough talk, but talk is cheap. Health care is not. As governor, Sanders aims to cut health spending at the state level and supports Republican cuts at the federal level. If she truly cared about preventing rate increases for Arkansans, she’d call on Congress to keep the current ACA subsidies in place, or she’d find money elsewhere. Instead, she’s trying to distract us with fake populism by attacking a corporate villain everyone loves to hate — insurance companies.
https://www.rawstory.com/unacceptable-sarah-huckabee-sanders-whines-about-cost-increases-fueled-by-own-party/
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