McConnell Unveils Bill, Would Leave 15 Million Uninsured

[elleng]

Source: nyt

McConnell unveils narrow Obamacare repeal bill.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, pulled in his sails on repealing the Affordable Care Act, and unveiled a more narrow measure that would:

REPEAL THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, which says that most Americans must have health insurance or pay a tax penalty.

REPEAL THE EMPLOYER MANDATE, which requires large employers to offer health insurance to their workers.

GIVE FLEXIBILITY TO STATES, making it much easier for them to waive federal requirements that health plans provide consumers with a minimum set of benefits like maternity care and prescription drugs.

EXPAND HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, increasing the limit on contributions to such tax-favored accounts

DELAY A TAX ON MEDICAL DEVICES.

INCREASE FUNDS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/senate-health-care-vote.html?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Looks like it will pass. God help us all. And I'm a nonbeliever.

[mobeau69]

6. The vote is coming soon.

As soon as Enzi STFU I think. No other puke is speaking so far and the bastard won't yeild for any questions.


I think we're fucked.

[harun]

2. Graham is on to them and called them on it. This is a trick by the GOP saying they will get a good

bill in conference but once they pass it the House will just take it and pass it without
going to conference and Trump will claim victory.

[procon]

3. Am I right; It looks lake this would eliminate most of the funding for the ACA?

Without the revenues from the mandates, and the loss of younger participants and workers, the ACA won't function.

[iluvtennis]

5. You're correct about the revenues from the mandates. And what happens w/Medicaid...not mentioned

[Igel]

7. Mandate funding's a question.

http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/11/how-many-americans-paid-the-obamacare-tax-penalty-in-2016/'
So for 2015, in 2016, 6.5 million paid something.

But this year early Trump told the IRS to not stress it. Now, not requiring that coverage be attested before processing the return wasn't new policy. Nobody's quite sure what laxing enforcement of the ACA mandate means. But if enforcement weakens, the ACA-related tax that's collected on the uninsured will decline.

Remember all that "prosecutorial discretion" talk that we proudly said that the president had full control over?

Yeah. Saying "don't prosecute that particular crime" is pretty much the same kind of prosecutorial discretion.

[L. Coyote]

4. More people than all the Trump voters in these 28 states:

Vermont
Hawaii
Alaska
Wyoming
Rhode Island
Delaware
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
New Mexico
Maine
New Hampshire
Idaho
West Virginia
Nebraska
Nevada
Utah
Kansas
Connecticut
Arkansas
Mississippi
Oregon
Iowa
Maryland
Oklahoma
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Louisiana

[moondust]

8. ISIS is jealous of the GOP.

Killing Americans by the millions. Maybe they'll covertly buy some Republicans to work for them. Or already have.

Nazis look like amateurs.

[TomCADem]

9. Great Plan. Pass A POS Bill and Hope It Gets "Fixed" As In...

...the House puts back in all of the tax cuts and Medicaid cuts that are the real purpose of the bill.

[Matthew28]

10. This really sucks and pisses me off so freaking much

as my mom has cancer, mother in law has to pay thousands per month for medication and aunt does too.

[Hieronymus]

11. McConnell got whuped tonight.