Posted on 05/03/2017 1:59:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two Republican lawmakers who had come out against the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act earlier this week reversed course on Wednesday and threw their support behind the plan after securing more money to help people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Representatives Fred Upton of Michigan, an influential voice in Republican health policy, and Billy Long of Missouri, a close ally of President Trump’s, told reporters after a meeting with Mr. Trump on Wednesday that the latest revisions had won them over. Those included $8 billion in additional funds over five years to supplement the insurance of people with pre-existing health problems.
Mr. Upton predicted the bill was “likely” to pass the House, a tremendous reversal of momentum for a measure that has twice been pulled back from a vote for lack of support.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, criticized that plan. “The proposed Upton amendment is like administering cough medicine to someone with stage four cancer,” he said in a statement. “This Republican amendment leaves Americans with pre-existing conditions as vulnerable as they were before under this bill.”
How far that $8 billion would go to ensuring that people with pre-existing medical conditions remain covered is not clear.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They enroll in high risk pools.
Healthcare is not a proper function of government.
If coverage for preexisting maladies are guaranteed, why buy insurance at all?
Agree with you Sir. Conservatives get sick too! I don’t believe we should be left to die because of circumstances (sometimes) beyond our control.
Fred’s the biggest b**b in the Upton family, even granting niece Kate’s pair.
Dave Mason said it best: we just disagree.
Government already covers health care for senior citizens and disabled persons, why not extend it to cover people who through no fault of their own cannot buy health insurance?
Ed
Thanks!
Ed
It’s unbelievable how decadent we are as a nation. If someone had told me ten years ago that we would have homosexuals being married, and trumpeted as heroes, or that men would call themselves women and use women’s bathrooms, and furthermore would demand the right to punish people who refuse to accede to their mental illness and call them “women,” I’d have called them crazy!
I know almost no one who’s still in their first marriage, or hasn’t slept around before marriage, there’s even Christians sleeping together before marriage and they think it’s cool, okay with God, and here in Southern Oregon the farms and industrial sites are being taken over by pot farmers, who would have been thrown in jail for being drug dealers ten years ago, and now they’re seen as the salvation for small town Oregon, because of the pot taxes!
It’s sickening, we’re literally dying as a nation,and unless we change our hearts and minds and return to normalcy, I don’t see any way we’re coming back!
Ed
Except that when it is passed it will become Trumpclu$terf&%$.
If there is one. Nothing requires states to establish them or fund them appropriately.
High risk pools established by insurance companies, not states.
We have a lot of folks here who don't give a damn about anyone else as long as they are OK - they call themselves "Principled"....
Why would they do that? How does a company make money off a pool of insured guaranteed to take far more money in claims than they pay in premiums? They don't, so where is the incentive for them?
Agreed—there sounds to be something off in that story.
But, the road we are headed down leads to more healthcare rationing, not less. Nationalized health systems have a very dark underbelly.
Also, this path leads to less healthcare innovation—and so fewer advanced treatments available for anyone.
Pray without ceasing. God can change hearts. We are witnesses.
“We have a lot of folks here who don’t give a damn about anyone else as long as they are OK - they call themselves “Principled”.... “
Funny, as I am drawn to the same conclusion you have come to.
Amen, very wise words...
Ed
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