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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 06:42 PM Jul 2017

Uh Oh: O'Care Repeal Bill Counts The Same Pot Of Money Multiple Times

Source: Talking Points Memo




By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published JULY 13, 2017 5:21 PM

GOP leaders unveiled the Senate’s revised health care bill on Thursday, and the updated legislation included a version of a controversial amendment drafted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would allow insurers to offer cheap, bare-bones plans that cover few health care services as long as at least one plan per state complies with Obamacare’s regulations.

To address concerns that Cruz’s amendment would lower prices for the young and healthy by making them skyrocket for the people who need a comprehensive insurance plan or have a pre-existing condition, the amendment purports to allocate billions in additional funding that states could use “to assist such health insurance issuers in covering high risk individuals.”

But as Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters on Thursday, there is no additional money. Instead, the amendment takes money already appropriated in the bill for other needs and says it can be used for these payments to insurers under the Cruz Amendment.

“It seems to me you’re using that money over and over again,” she said. “It’s supposed to relieve the cost of high premiums. It’s supposed to solve the problem with deductibles being unaffordable. It’s supposed to be available for high-risk or reinsurance pool. It’s supposed to be available under the Cruz Amendment to help prevent a huge increase in rates for people with pre-existing conditions.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-republicans-double-dip-obamacare-repeal

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Uh Oh: O'Care Repeal Bill Counts The Same Pot Of Money Multiple Times (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2017 OP
She's a smart cookie. nt Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #1
Only decent Repup in sight.. mpcamb Jul 2017 #5
Magical money for magical thinking helps to sell the snake oil, I guess. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #2
They used to call it "trickle down" economics FakeNoose Jul 2017 #7
Yes Solly Mack Jul 2017 #8
This is a fucking joke. Just vote on repealing the ACA. Then see the repubican party cease to madinmaryland Jul 2017 #3
Hmmmm.... George II Jul 2017 #4
Alternative scoring.... Creative accounting keithbvadu2 Jul 2017 #6
I just wonder if I could get away with this, on my IRS form turbinetree Jul 2017 #9
lol, over the past eight years Republicans NEVER had a plan and they still don't. just think.... Sunlei Jul 2017 #10
That is not being reported. Saw on CNBC the report... Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #11

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
2. Magical money for magical thinking helps to sell the snake oil, I guess.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 07:07 PM
Jul 2017

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FakeNoose

(32,331 posts)
7. They used to call it "trickle down" economics
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:28 PM
Jul 2017

... when Reagan was POTUS. It was just as much bullshit then as it is now.



madinmaryland

(64,920 posts)
3. This is a fucking joke. Just vote on repealing the ACA. Then see the repubican party cease to
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 08:10 PM
Jul 2017

exist.

FUCK YOU TURTLEMAN.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
9. I just wonder if I could get away with this, on my IRS form
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 12:11 AM
Jul 2017

I mean, what if I were to tell the IRS, hey, I am going to count my one house mortgage on my house twice, you know have more deductibles than what are legal.

Is this how this ass**** senator thinks from Texas, in fact both of them, since there are two of them from that state, allied with the head thief from Kentucky, is that what they do in Kentucky, scheme on how to defraud people of health insurance and take away there health care in a shell game full of sh*t .

It reminds me of a item or scheme that is happening in Detroit and across the country, where people are putting there with homes titles through a payday lender system, and if they fall behind, the home is taken away from them, because some entity is using the home as a collateral based on the title, instead of going through a bank or credit union, because of there credit score.

This worthless death panel amendment being presented by this ass**** works and looks like the same thing a f*cking scam.

Is this just my imagination, because I am going to call my senator tomorrow and ask.............?


Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. lol, over the past eight years Republicans NEVER had a plan and they still don't. just think....
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 12:35 AM
Jul 2017

If they put those HOURS and MILLION$ & MILLION$ over YEARS towards real hospitals and training Doctors...

America could have had 100s of new hospitals and scores of Doctors.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
11. That is not being reported. Saw on CNBC the report...
Fri Jul 14, 2017, 08:54 AM
Jul 2017

that money is being funded for pre-existing conditions to states. Not that it's the same money earmarked for something else that MAY also be used for pre-existing conditions exchange (so won't be enough money for both).

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