Medicaid cuts in the American Healthcare Act will have a devastating impact on mental health coverage for the 60 million children and adults in our country who are affected by mental health conditions. Many with mentally ill family members have exhausted their savings from years of counseling, hospital stays, and paying for medications needed to stabilize their child. It is a lifelong financial burden. Hopefully Congress will reconsider the plight of the mentally ill and reinstate the Medicaid funding. The mentally ill need protection and help.
NAMI Deeply Disappointed in House Passage of American Health Care Act (AHCA)
https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2017/NAMI-Deeply-Disappointed-in-House-Passage-of-Ameri
This was one of the major traps laid in Obolacare - once it was set up to pay for stuff that has already happened, there’s no way that turd could be put back into the toilet bowl. The only real option left is for the taxpayers to take up that turd, which will automatically inject more fraud into the system and raise the prices further.
It is not insurance. It is a subsidy, i.e. welfare.
The supposed non-payment of expenses for preexisting conditions is a straw man being used to attack the Republican plan before it can even be finalized, and before people understand what’s in it - the bill includes 180 billion in government funding to supplement what insurance companies will pay toward pre-x bills - it’s not clear yet how this will be done, and apparently different states may handle it different ways - maybe regular insurance will pay up to a certain amount with the government picking up the rest, or pre-x patients will be in a separate pool, or perhaps the government will supplement altogether what the companies pay - a panel on C-Span yesterday covering insurance issues mentioned that the most expensive bill in one year for a patient with a pre-existing condition was $18 million - in Iowa I think - maybe that’s why three-quarters of the counties in that state will have no company to provide them insurance beginning next year......
Stupid is a preexisting condition.
“The hashtag started to trend hours after Republicans in the House narrowly pushed through the American Health Care Act, which would drastically remake health care in the U.S.”
ROFWL
As if Obamacare had not tried to “drastically remake health care in the U.S.”, and totally botched it.