If this repeal and replace bill is voted in in the House and Senate and signed in to law it is a fact that right away 14 million lose healthcare and another 10 million lose health care within a few years time. So, EVERYONE that got health care that needed it from Obamacare Loses it with Trumpcare. This is what's real here folks! It's a complete LIE from start to finish. It ONLY steals the healthcare that Obama gave to 20 million people and that's all.
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Republicans change health care bill to lure votes
Republicans change health care bill in search for votes
Story highlights
- GOP leaders unveiled changes to the Medicaid and other provisions late Monday night
- Vote on measure repealing and replacing much of Obamacare set for Thursday
(CNN)House
Republican leaders released a package of amendments Monday evening to
modify the GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare -- the culmination
of days of negotiations and closed-door meetings to win over critics and
skeptics of the proposal.
The
amendments mark efforts by GOP leaders and the White House to appease
both conservatives and moderates who have expressed reservations about
the bill.
As of Monday, senior
Republicans were continuing to whip the GOP conference to ensure that
they will have the 216 votes necessary to pass the bill out of the House
on Thursday. To ramp up the pressure, President Donald Trump will meet
with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning.
The
legislation, called the American Health Care Act, would rewrite the
current health care system and lead to millions of more people being
uninsured than under Obamacare, according to the Congressional Budget
Office.
The
bill will be taken up Wednesday by the House Rules Committee and set to
be voted on by the House Thursday -- the seven-year anniversary of
President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act.
Changes to Medicaid
Many of the amendments would make additional changes to Medicaid that were pushed by conservative members.
One
addition would give states the option of requiring able-bodied Medicaid
recipients to work, participate in job training programs or do
community service.
Conservative-leaning
members have been especially irked since Obamacare expanded Medicaid to
11 million able-bodied adults without children. Critics, however, say
it will make it harder for many low-income Americans to get needed
health care.
Also, the revised
legislation would allow states to opt to receive federal Medicaid
funding as a block grant for the adults and children in their program.
The current bill calls for giving states a set amount of money per
enrollee, known as a per capita cap system. (Funding for elderly and
disabled participants would be based on enrollment.)
Both
would be a major change from the current way Medicaid is funded, which
is open-ended federal support tied to state spending on the program.
Under
a block grant, states would receive a fixed amount of federal funding
each year, regardless of how many participants are in the program. This
would reduce federal support for Medicaid even more since the funding
level would not adjust for increases in enrollment, which often happens
in bad economic times.
Another alteration would immediately prevent states from expanding Medicaid, a concession to conservative lawmakers.
Under the first version of the legislation, enhanced funding for
Medicaid would be repealed as of January 1, 2020, but nothing barred
states from expanding the program before that.
New York state
House
leaders also sought to win support from centrist Republicans from
upstate New York leaders by adding a provision that would ban the
federal government from reimbursing state Medicaid funds raised by local
governments, according to New York Rep. Chris Collins. He told CNN the
change would help bring along other members of his state's delegation
who are currently wavering on the bill.
A House GOP aide told CNN the change would apply to New York state only.
In
New York, counties outside of New York City send $2.3 billion to the
state to help pay for Medicaid. The amendment would give the state the
incentive to stop passing down Medicaid costs to the counties, Collins
said.
Tax credits pushed to Senate
House
lawmakers punted one important provision to the Senate: Providing more
assistance to older consumers, many of whom would face huge premium
hikes under the GOP bill. The House is setting aside $75 billion to
provide additional tax credits to help people buy policies on the
individual market, but they are letting the Senate handle the crafting
of the legislation.
The American
Health Care Act's tax credits are not as generous as Obamacare's
subsidies for lower-income enrollees in their 50s and early 60s. As a
result, the premium for a 64-year-old would be 20% to 25% higher in 2026
than it would be under Obamacare, the CBO projected.
Lawmakers
have been hammered on this point, with the influential AARP warning
that it will inform all 38 million of its members how their
representatives votes.
Beefing up
the tax credits, however, will make the legislation more costly. By
shifting responsibility to the Senate, lawmakers avoid having to have
the CBO re-evaluate the plan, while assuaging rank-and-file members to
support the bill.
Ways and Means
Committee Chairman Kevin Brady told reporters on Monday that older
Americans were "hammered the most by Obamacare."
"The
promise of Obamacare was that if you made young people pay more, you
would pay less. And that failed," Brady said. "So they're facing
skyrocketing premiums."
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