The moral travesty of Trumpcare: A health care system that doesnt help peoples health
The moral travesty of Trumpcare: A health care system that doesn’t help people’s health
America has the only healthcare system in the world designed to avoid sick people
Robert Reich Tuesday, May 9, 2017 09:00 AM CST
Shame on every one of the 217 Republicans who last Thursday voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and substitute basically nothing.
Trumpcare isn’t a replacement of the Affordable Care Act. It’s a transfer from the sick and poor to the rich and healthy.
The losers are some 24 million Americans who under the Affordable Care Act get subsidies to afford health insurance coverage, including millions of people with pre-existing conditions and poor people who had access to Medicaid, who may not be able to afford insurance in the future.
The winners are wealthy Americans who will now get a tax cut because they won’t have to pay to fund the Affordable Care Act, and healthy people who won’t have to buy health insurance to subsidize the sick.
House Republicans say they have protected people with pre-existing health problems. Baloney. Sick people could be charged premiums so high as to make insurance unaffordable.
America has the only healthcare system in the world designed to avoid sick people. Private for-profit health insurers do whatever they can to insure groups of healthy people because that’s where the profits are. They also make every effort to avoid sick people, because that’s where the costs are.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/09/the-moral-travesty-of-trumpcare-a-health-care-system-that-doesnt-help-peoples-health/
