Repealing Obamacare means ALL insurance plans will have fewer benefits.
If Republicans succeed in repealing Obamacare, the damages won't be limited to just the people who signed up for those plans, EVERYONE with healthcare insurance will be affected, including those with Medicare. This isn't mentioned often enough, and too many people think that they won't be hurt if Obamacare is eliminated because they have a different insurance.
Obamacare, or the ACA, requires that at least 85 percent of all premiums are spent on actual health care services, and not diverted into profits. That means insurers can't routinely charge women as much as 80 percent more for health insurance than men, or deny them coverage, or cancel a woman's insurance if she had a pre-existing condition... including pregnancy. It also banned annual and lifetime benefit limits that booted really sick people off their insurance when they needed health care the most.
Most people know that Obamacare requires insurers to allow parents to keep their children on their family plan until age 26, and people with pre existing conditions can't be denied coverage. Obamacare also makes insurance companies cover preventive services like mammogram and breast cancer genetic screenings, Pap smears for cervical cancer that can save lives. Other preventive care benefits include making contraceptives available at no cost, sexually transmitted disease testing, annual wellness visits, and counseling for alcohol abuse, tobacco use and domestic violence are also covered, and available without copays. This coverage also applies to children and also gives them hearing and vision screening, autism and developmental assessments for toddlers, vaccines and behavioral counseling for older children, and dental and vision care for children is free.
ALL of these new benefits will be taken away if the Republicans repeal Obamacare. Regardless of what insurance you have now, your benefits will be far fewer than they are today.
There's a couple of summaries with much more information on what's at stake:
What would the impact be if the Affordable Care Act is repealed?
50 ways to lose your coverage if Obamacare is repealed
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He has been taking medication to avoid seizures which began after he came out of a coma. The coma was caused by the head trauma he received while being a front seat passenger in a car wreck 45 years ago.
Thanks for the hug. We are all gonna need lots of those over the next 4 years.
