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 Senates 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 Obamacares regulations.
To address concerns that Cruzs 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 youre using that money over and over again, she said. Its supposed to relieve the cost of high premiums. Its supposed to solve the problem with deductibles being unaffordable. Its supposed to be available for high-risk or reinsurance pool. Its 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
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)mpcamb
(2,855 posts)Good and decent to the core.
Keep her out of small planes.
Solly Mack
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FakeNoose
(32,331 posts)... when Reagan was POTUS. It was just as much bullshit then as it is now.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)exist.
FUCK YOU TURTLEMAN.
George II
(67,782 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)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)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)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).