Health and Wellness : Hospitals warn that repealing ObamaCare could spark 'unprecedented public health crisis'

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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The GOP’s Plan for Pre-Existing Conditions Has a Huge Loophole

As Republicans begin taking steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act, both GOP leaders and President Donald Trump have claimed that they will keep the law’s popular provision that states insurers cannot discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions — either by denying them coverage or charging them more.

But if the GOP’s yet-to-be-unveiled Obamacare replacement plan is anything like what Tom Price — Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services — has proposed in the past, tens of millions of people could in fact lose their insurance, or pay significantly more for it, because of pre-existing conditions ...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-plan-pre-existing-conditions-190308991.html

Tens of millions of people could be at risk



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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Obamacare Repeal: The Big Difference Between ‘Access’ and ‘Coverage’

Meanwhile, President Trump last Friday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to do what they can to weaken the Affordable Care Act, while it was a largely symbolic act, it heightened the uncertainty for the millions of Americans covered under the law.

Could they lose their health insurance under an Obamacare replacement, short answer: yes; having access to care isn’t the same thing as having insurance, says Michael Tanner, senior fellow at the right-leaning Cato Institute ...


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-repeal-big-difference-between-202835713.html

And why it matters to you.



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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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GOP Senators offer ACA replacement plan that would let states keep Obamacare

WASHINGTON -- A few GOP senators are selling their plan with the same language former President Obama used to sell his.

“Republicans think if you like your insurance you should keep it,” Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said Monday. “And we mean it” ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-sen...nt-plan-that-would-let-states-keep-obamacare/

AUGUST 11: Scaffolding has been removed from the upper section of the U.S. Capitol dome as the Architect of the Capitol works to complete the Capitol Dome Restoration Project before the 2017 presidential inauguration.


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Rand Paul just introduced his Obamacare Replacement Act

... The bill, named the Obamacare Replacement Act, would eliminate several provisions of the ACA, including the individual mandate and minimums on coverage standards. The bill's fact sheet doesn't mention any provision to allow parents to keep a child on their insurance until they turn 26 ...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rand-paul-just-introduced-obamacare-175250810.html

rand paul




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[Bootzey]

I find it interesting that the people who don't have ACA, are the ones who want to repeal it