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Published: 2015-03-07 08:23:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 236; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 0
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Right now in the Supreme Court a republican lead law suit is seeking to render the Affordable Care Act void in over 30 states. If the court says that the wording of the ACA is not exact enough, 11.5 million people will lose their health insurance overnight.The republicans say they will help people pay for the insurance during a "Transitional" phase. They have no plan on how to pay for this transitional period, or plan on what happens after the transitional period. So if you have any health issues, you might want to get them looked at now, because next month you might not have insurance and if the ACA collapses, health care prices are going to skyrocket for everyone as 11.5 million people are dumped uninsured into the health care system.Β
As a side note, lets assume that only 1% of the 11.5 million people using ACA's insurance to pay for life saving treatments. That means ~110,000 people will face the situation where the hospital will have to choose to treat them without payment or send them home to die.
I guess the republicans finally found a way to have their death panels.
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Yeah, basically, they got themselves into a pickle. The lawsuit won't undo the ACA - it will simply take away federal subsidies to states that opted not to implement their own exchange, and therefore defer to the federal exchange to handle the state's population that meets the requirements for insurance subsidies. This doesn't even apply to people who qualify for the ACA's Medicaid expansion, for example (and certainly notΒ in states where they didn't expand their Medicaid program). So the republicans where all gleeful and patting themselves on the back for finding some arcane phrase that could unravel the ACA, but chances are, it won't. What hit them by surprise is that they underestimated the impact to their own constituents. By and large, this lawsuit doesn't affect "blue" states, because all of them created their own exchanges - therefore, the only states affected are red ones, and there are large numbers of people who currently qualify for at least some small measure of subsidy. Without it, they may have to ditch their plan, which would be hypocritical of the republicans who initially blamed the ACA for causing people to ditch their insurance plans. And by stripping those people of their plans right before a presidential election, I think the republicans suddenly got an "oh shit!" moment. So they know they need to calm people down and show themselves not to be the bad guys here, but they really don't have a plan at all. For years, the only plan they had was "repeal Obamacare", and that ship has sailed.
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