To a Senator who demands that Medicaid must be destroyed — well, he notes that not only does the Senate bill roll back the ACA expansion, but changes it to a block grant, and caps funding increases below the rate of medical inflation, essentially doing the job.
To a different Senator who is worried about Medicaid cuts (from the goodness of their hearts or the fear of angry constituents next election time), McConnell reassures them that the cuts take place so far out, they'll never actually happen, since some future sane Congress will reverse them.
Either he's playing one side or the other (or both). And that's the reason he's in such a rush for a vote on the bill.
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Blind ambition will be McConnell's undoing.
The problem is that after all the years of paying into it, (We the people), won't be able to get a refund should they cut medicare.
+Carl Jackson They know that as well. In fact, they're counting on it.
Ole mitch the bitch he will suck you if you vote on his bill
Andrew Westman you know, as well as I, that if we got as much vacation time as folks do on the hill- this world would be worse off. Couldn't get it done in time because of vacation- Judas Priest.
Man, it's really a bold claim to say "pass this crap because someone else will fix it before it takes effect."
+John Bump The Latest Greatest Plan (since the Senate Repeal&Replace failed) goes a step further: a simple Repeal bill, with a two year delay, so that the next congress will have to worry about actually doing something. Leadership!
Certainly, if the Insurers are all in, (so to speak), shouldn't they be fined as well for being drop outs? Adding insult to injury for being uninsured because of unemployment, layoffs, and bankruptcy to fund subsidies is not what we the people need. Robbing Peter to pay Paul never works and never will.
+Carl Jackson If you are unemployed, you are probably not funding subsidies.
Insurance companies have been dropping out of individual exchanges because of costs and risks, which in turn were due to the lack of tuning major legislation usually gets upon passage (but which the GOP blocked), and of late, by their own testimony, because of uncertainty about how the GOP Congress and the President will act around the whole "repeal" thing. Many of the counties which are dealing with insurance company flight on the exchanges were also underserved prior to the ACA, and will be after; they are not easily economically viable to cover in a normal insurance risk pool.
And it's not "robbing Peter to pay Paul" — the premise is that there is a national interest in not having people debilitated, crippled, or dead from medical conditions that they could not afford to treat.
Dave hill, fining an individual for not being insured through the IRS is robbing Peter to pay Paul no matter how you spin it come April 15 tax filing deadline. No mention of fines being levied on the Insurers who just wanted the companies shareholder to benefit. Always a half baked plan- go figure. There are countries with Nationalized Health Care plans, such as Germany, although, the people are taxed to a greater extent, but, at least they get health care. To the point, I would rather have Doctors working for the people, rather than the politicians. You see what we the people have now.
+Carl Jackson There are fines in the ACA for employers who don’t offer coverage (Employer Mandate) and for Health Providers/Insurance companies (Around profit, access, screening, and funding for prevention initiatives)
These also went away with Trump’s executive order