Examining How Senate Republicans Frame Their Health Care Bill

Discussion Draft of Senate Amendment to H.R. 1628 Help stabilize collapsing insurance markets that have left millions of Americans with no options. Short-Term Stabilization Fund: To help balance premium costs and promote more choice in insurance markets throughout the country, this stabilization fund would help address coverage and access disruption – providing $15 billion per year in 2018 and 2019; $10 billion per year in 2020 and 2021. Jason Chung writes: S. 106(h)(1) specifies that these amounts are intended to “fund arrangements with health insurance issuers to address coverage and access disruption…” Rand Paul opposes this fund as an example of “new entitlements”. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/339008-four-senate-conservatives-say-they-oppose-obamacare-repeal-bill Cost-Sharing Reductions: Continues federal assistance – through 2019 – to help lower health care costs for low-income Americans in the individual market. Jason Chung writes:  Ensured by s. 207 but s. 208 explicitly repeals the cost-sharing subsidy after 2019. Extending the subsidy but eliminating penalties is described as “a contradiction in many ways” by Michael Dowling, the CEO of Northwell Health.  He points out that subsidies will now have to be substantial to attract people. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/22/keeping-money-insurance-subsidies-gop-health-bill-may-lower-premiums/103102580/ Free the American people from the onerous Obamacare mandates that r...
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