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Proposed Health Care Law (to replace Obamacare)

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  • J.K.Logic
    2017-03-07 01:57:21 PM
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    Called the 'American Health Care Act', some popular things remain, other don't. Here are some key points of the Republican's proposal to replace Obamacare that are being talking about most:

    1) Individual mandates go away
    2) You can stay on your parent's plan until 26 still
    3) Medicaid expansion goes basically unchanged until beginning of 2020
    4) Pre-existing conditions still cannot disqualify you from coverage

    This proposal is the early stages. They still haven't done the official math to see how much it costs, and how many folks it will actually cover. It also includes stiffer penalties for lapses in coverage, and proposed a much different route of giving out tax credits for health insurance, over the current subsidy method -

    What do you make of this proposal? Does it stand a chance of becoming law? Which parts do you think will be re-tooled before an official version makes it all the way to law is maybe a better question, as I doubt this first revision gets through completely untouched.. Trump has already said he is open to negotiation on the topic.
  • JaredS
    2017-03-07 02:22:45 PM
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    I just have a hard time adding up the numbers.

    One of the main reasons for the individual mandate is to help alleviate the costs that came about with forcing insurance companies to accept everyone regardless of preconditions. If healthy young people aren't forced to purchase insurance and insurance companies still have to accept everyone then no one should be surprised when the costs skyrocket for everyone who has insurance.

  • justin412
    2017-03-14 02:44:02 PM
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    The Congressional Budget Office released their scorecard on this bill and it can very likely spell big trouble for its proponents. They predicted that 24 million Americans would lose their access to affordable health insurance in the next decade, 18 million of them in 2018 alone, if the bill were passed into law.

    I'd be shocked if Senate Republicans allow this to sail through after this report. The House may very well send it to them, but more than enough Republican Senators have expressed deep concerns about the bill that would make it nearly impossible to get through the upper chamber.

    Anything can happen, but I have a feeling the Senate is going to put the breaks on this and try to come up with their own bill that would get a better CBO score. The question then becomes if the House Republicans would be able to cobble together enough votes in their chamber to pass whatever the Senate sends them. And that's a big task concerning the various factions within the House GOP Caucus.
  • JaredS
    2017-03-23 02:37:12 PM
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    The House is set to vote on their repeal and replacement plan today and it's turning out to be quite a nail biter. There are currently 33 Republicans that have publicly said they are leaning towards a "no" vote and that is more than enough to sink the bill entirely. I have a feeling that Speaker Ryan will pull the bill from the floor if he doesn't think he has enough votes for passage. What happens after that is anyone's guess.
  • JaredS
    2017-03-23 03:38:11 PM
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    Update: Speaker Ryan has pulled the bill from the House floor after it became clear that he didn't have enough votes to get it through the House of Representatives.
  • Richard1022
    2017-05-02 03:52:38 PM
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    This seems to be another do-or-die week for the AHCA. The Republicans offered an amendment to the original draft of the ACHA that was meant to placate more hard line conservatives, but it very well may wind up pushing more moderate Republicans away.

    The amendment, drafted by Rep. Tom MacArthur, would allow states to waive certain Obamacare regulations and come up with their own. This could lead to insurance companies being able to do away with the pre-existing condition requirement, which is a pillar to the current law.

    It's not clear whether the Republicans have the votes in the House, but even if they do pass this amended version then it will go to the Senate where passage is less than guaranteed.

  • JaredS
    2017-05-09 11:59:45 AM
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    To my surprise, the Republicans were able to squeak out passage of an amended version of the AHCA, but that was the easy part. The Senate will very likely write a dramatically different bill that may be hard for hard line conservatives in the House to vote for.

    I have been wrong before, but I wouldn't be surprised if this winds up being a lot more difficult than our Representatives and Senators thought.

  • Richard1022
    2017-05-18 11:59:57 AM
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    It appears that there is a group of twelve Senators working on writing their own version of a healthcare bill that will likely look a lot different than the House version. The Senates rules are a lot different and whatever bill they come up with must be able to be passed using a budget tool called reconciliation that would enable the bill to pass with 51 instead of 60 votes.

    Anything can happen, but I have a feeling that this is going to be a lot more complicated than the Republican Party led many Americans to believe.

  • JaredS
    2017-05-24 05:01:43 PM
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    The Congressional Budget Office just released their score on the revised AHCA and it wasn't pretty. They project that 23 million Americans would lose health coverage if this bill were to become law. That makes it even more unlikely that the Senate will pass the House bill without major revisions.

  • JaredS
    2017-06-08 02:32:00 PM
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    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate will be voting on their version of the bill in the coming weeks, but he has not set a definitive date.

    There will be two main questions when McConnell brings it to the floor: 1) Will he get the 50 votes needed to pass it (and then have VP Pence as the tie breaker) and 2) Will the House be able to pass the Senate version?

    I have a feeling that it's going to be extremely difficult for the Senate Republicans to actually get 50 votes because there are more than three moderates who have already come out against many of the things being discussed in their version of the bill. If three Republican Senators vote "no" then it's over, at least for now.

    So it'll be interesting to see what happens in these coming weeks. It will likely be a make or break moment for this young Administration.

  • Max
    2017-06-15 12:24:41 PM
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    It appears that Senate Republicans are a lot closer to an agreement than a lot of people thought. It's shocking how low on the radar this is in the media considering it is something that will directly affect tens of millions of peoples healthcare.
  • JaredS
    2017-06-20 02:40:11 PM
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    Max Wrote: It appears that Senate Republicans are a lot closer to an agreement than a lot of people thought. It's shocking how low on the radar this is in the media considering it is something that will directly affect tens of millions of peoples healthcare.

    I've been following it very closely and it looks like this week or next are going to be critical.

    It's anyone's guess whether the Republicans will be able to muster 51 votes (or 50 with VP Pence casting the tie breaker), but it is surely going to be close either way.

  • JaredS
    2017-06-22 02:33:28 PM
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    Senate Republicans finally released their long awaited bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, capping off months of secret negotiations between a group of Republican Senators. Leader McConnell vows to have a vote on the bill before the July 4th recess.

    Four Republican Senators have already voiced some disapproval of the bill, which is more than enough to sink the bill entirely. But those Senators may eventually be swayed if Republican leadership makes some minor modifications to the bill.

    If the Senate is able to pass the bill then it will go back to the House. If the House then is able to pass it without modifications then it will go to the President for his signature.

    Anything can happen between now and final passage, but this is the closest the Republicans have come to repealing Obamacare.

  • justin412
    2017-06-27 02:29:37 PM
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    Senate Leader Mitch McConnell pulled the Senates healthcare bill repealing and replacing Obamacare from the floor after realizing that he didn't have enough votes to pass it. He vowed to make some changes to the bill during the July 4 recess and bring it back up for a vote later this month, but that may prove to be much easier said than done.
  • JaredS
    2017-07-18 02:44:41 PM
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    Well it looks like the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is dead for now. More than enough Republicans came out against Senator McConnell's latest bill and the Kentucky Republican has now said that he's going to move on to other items on the legislative agenda.
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