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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumpcare will cut coverage for all - including employer-provided plans (That means everyone!)
Last edited Thu May 4, 2017, 12:15 AM - Edit history (1)
Trumpcare is likely to cut coverage for everyone -- including people with employer-provided plans. The bill will enable insurers to re-establish caps on total lifetime coverage as well as yearly coverage. So for anyone under the age of 65, no matter how you get your coverage, from your job or otherwise -- if you get cancer, or your kids do, you could go bankrupt and be unable to pay for care.
https://www.brookings.edu/2017/05/02/allowing-states-to-define-essential-health-benefits-could-weaken-aca-protections-against-catastrophic-costs-for-people-with-employer-coverage-nationwide/
That means anyone under 65 will have their care cut by this new bill. Ugh.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)And without the requirements for businesses over 50 employees to offer health insurance coverage, I am guessing there will be a decline in employer-provided coverage as well.
Freethinker65
(10,015 posts)Means-tested coupons/vouchers
procon
(15,805 posts)can weaken or eliminate their coverage and drive up costs for people. This would include employer plans as well. If even one state got a waiver that allowed it to drop maternity services, mental health services, etc, the rest will topple like a line of dominoes.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)At risk of getting cancer and losing everything. At best.
And getting cancer, losing everything, not being able to pay for more care, and dying. At worst.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)These new damages will make healthcare even worse than it was before Obamacare.
enough
(13,258 posts)the more likely you are to be caught by the lifetime cap.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)is the most popular and most successful in Kentucky . . . they just don't want to admit it's Obamacare. If it goes away, the voters will notice.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)But it would be better if it doesn't pass the House.