GOP Health Bill Breaks Trumps Promise to Lower Deductibles
Source: NBC
Jun 25 2017, 10:48 am ET
GOP Health Bill Breaks Trumps Promise to Lower Deductibles
by Benjy Sarlin
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump may not have the most detailed knowledge of health care policy, but he knows what people hate: High deductibles.
Trump has made these complaints about Obamacare, which are shared by many insurance customers and critics of the bill alike, a centerpiece of his rhetoric on health care for years.
Our healthcare plan will lower premiums & deductibles - and be great healthcare! he tweeted last month. A few days earlier he tweeted that Republicans would provide much lower premiums & deductibles. In March, he complained that deductibles are so high you dont even get to use [insurance]" under Obamacare.
But the Senate bill released last week and the House bill passed last month take the opposite approach: They include policies that encourage higher deductibles and dramatically raise out-of-pocket costs, in some cases by thousands of dollars per person. The president has embraced both efforts even though they violate his repeated promises.
Theres no question that people in the individual insurance market would end up with higher deductibles under the Senate bill, much like the House, Larry Levitt, Senior Vice President at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told NBC News................
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/gop-health-bill-breaks-trump-s-promise-lower-deductibles-n776361
Good article. Pass round. Thanks
I also like how the headline says--trump breaks his promise.
"Theres no squaring that math with Trumps pledges."
Link to tweet
Matthew28
(1,796 posts)That the GOP's goal is to hurt as many poor and middle class people as possible while transferring their wealth upwards.
pandr32
(11,447 posts)I don't know how people will be able to afford to visit their doctor. It is so important to have regular physical exams and to be able to see a doctor when something is wrong--before it turns into a larger problem, but with high co-pays and deductibles it becomes unaffordable.
And what of a second opinion?
I have often gone to a doctor who got it wrong. Doctors often misdiagnose because with the few short minutes they actually spend with a patient it is easy to do so. Many health problems and diseases share similar symptoms.
When this happens a patient will already have spent a whole lot of money and their problem not solved.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)He is going to be killing me and thousands more as well. If my disease was contagious I'd make a trip to Wash DC to shake his hand personally.