They would have outlawed most kinds of private health insurance (not clear to me that they can target self insured plans) and forced price controls on doctors and hospitals. Graham-Cassidy made that kind of inevitable by sharply cutting funding for CA to implement Obamacare while leaving the mandate in place - and giving the state far more power to create their own system. Give a socialist an inch...
In other words, people like me in California just dodged a bullet.
Sorry, if you’re trying to imply that Collins will vote against this because she’s some kind of crypto-conservative...she’s not.
The mandate was actually revoked by Trump earlier in the summer, although it may still exist in certain areas that refuse to acknowledge anything he does.
Letting each state control this is much better. Interestingly, I read an article in the WSJ today about how states that accepted the Obamacare Medicaid money have as much as 200% more opioid addiction, because Obamacare forces people to go to the ER, which is the only place that will accept Medicaid’s lousy reimbursement. Docs in the ER are just pressured to deal with all these people and hand out pain pills like candy.
Giving the states control over this money as block grants would be much better for the health of all concerned. And it would be much cheaper and allow affordable choices for the middle class. My small-business owner, young, healthy kids are seriously hurting since their insurance is now twice their mortgage payment. But Dems and crypto-Dems such as Collins and McCain don’t give a fig for people like my kids.
They would have outlawed most kinds of private health insurance (not clear to me that they can target self insured plans) and forced price controls on doctors and hospitals. Graham-Cassidy made that kind of inevitable by sharply cutting funding for CA to implement Obamacare while leaving the mandate in place - and giving the state far more power to create their own system. Give a socialist an inch...