Posted on 03/22/2017 7:19:34 AM PDT by momincombatboots
VETERANS! Start calling. Yesterday Trump and his Swampcare RINOS screwed your service. As of yesterday, if you are a Veteran who doesn't use the VA.. guess what, you lose your subsidy! Are illegals getting a better deal than Veterans.. Yes, as of yesterday. Share if you know a veteran.
Meadows called the sop to upstate New York the “Buffalo Buyout,” and said he was not comfortable with leadership giving each state its own special deal, and he does not see the special arrangement as affecting the vote significantly.
She responded in post #14.
Great find. Thanks.
I know a veteran. What should I share?
I am not seeing how the Obamacare repeal is effecting VA and Tricare coverage also?
Lots of not making sense this morning. Probly just me.
Under the manager Armand meant is the following.. ‘VETERANS who are eligle, but not enrolled in VA coverage would no longer qualify for tax credits’
The Mangers Ammendment. Health affairs.org/blog2017/03/21/what’s-in-the-mangers-amendment-to-ahca/
It’s actually a tax credit, you know like Carrier and Sprint received.
The Managers Amendment passed yesterday.
I went to the VA when I was still working. Didn't qualify because I wasn't homeless or poverty stricken.
So, won't go there, ever.
Read the Mangers Amendment.. then get back to me.
This VETERANS screwed comes from the Mangaers Amendment added yesterday.
Well duh! If you applying for disability you have to go to the VA to get it rated or you will not get the disability. BTW disability C&P is totally separate from basic medical care from the VA. One does not connect to the other.
Thanks so much.. I was in tears when I posted. These are my brothers and sisters in arms. My Daughters husband was Kia and I am a veteran with two active duty adult chidldren.
Posted a thread on it with that freepers link
Healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/21/what’s-in-the-managers-amendment-to-acha/
Share, share, tweet, facebook, smoke signals.. any possible means.
Under the original bill, service members could receive tax credits from the government so long as they were not enrolled already in the Veterans Affairs program. "In the case of other specified coverage," a special rule with respect to veterans' health programs read, "an individual shall not be treated as eligible for such coverage unless such individual is enrolled in such coverage."
Translated from legislative parlance, veterans couldn't double dip. Under the original leadership plan, they had access to both the credits and VA benefits. But they could choose only one.
By design or by accident, leadership staffers struck that language. Now retired service members qualify only if they "are not eligible" for other types of government healthcare. According to Chris Jacobs, a senior healthcare analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and CEO of the Juniper Research Group, that means "individuals eligible for, but not enrolled in, VA coverage cannot qualify for the new insurance subsidies'
With just the stroke of a pen, some legislative staffer would force millions of veterans to rely on the VA for their healthcare whether they want it or not."
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when the elect has their staff write their Bills and then do not read them before they vote on them. It's why long convoluted Bills should not be written and why all Bills should be read aloud on the floors and debated bit by bit.
Veterans who are eligible for but not enrolled in Veterans’ Administration coverage would no longer qualify for tax credits.The excess of tax credits that exceed the cost of insurance coverage would no longer be available to be paid into HSAs, reportedly because of a concern that they might thereby become available to pay for abortions.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/21/whats-in-the-managers-amendment-to-ahca/
Or am I missing something else?
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