Emerging GOP Obamacare Repeal Would Mean Sick People Pay (Much) More
Emerging GOP Obamacare Repeal Would Mean Sick People Pay (Much) More
Instead of controlling costs, it would shift them — onto the people with medical problems.
By Jonathan Cohn 04/04/2017 11:28 am ET
Republicans have spent most of the past seven years vowing to protect people with pre-existing conditions, even as they have pledged to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
Now Republicans are trying to bring back Obamacare repeal. And the emerging deal would make a mockery of those promises ― by forcing people with medical problems to pay more for their health care, and in many cases leaving them unable to get insurance at all.
It would be a breach of faith, but also a revealing window into what Republicans who support this measure think the world should look like.
The whole point of health insurance is to protect people from financial ruin just because they happen to be injured or sick. Living with diabetes, battling cancer, recovering from serious injury ― these things are hard enough without having to worry that paying the medical bills will drive you into bankruptcy.
The Affordable Care Act was an effort, however imperfect and incomplete, to protect people from those problems. This Republican proposal would expose them all over again.
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