4 states eating 37% of obombacare funding

[cheka.]

nice

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/18/news...idy/index.html

Republicans likely have only two weeks left to use their 2017 budget reconciliation bill as a way to dismantle Obamacare with a simple majority in the Senate. The Graham-Cassidy bill is the only repeal effort left on the table, coming even as a bipartisan Senate committee is working on legislation to stabilize the Affordable Care Act.

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday it may take several weeks for it to release an analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill so it remains to be seen how many fewer people could be insured under it or what the impact on premiums may be.

Graham-Cassidy in a nutshell:
Reduces federal spending and block grants it.
Caps Medicaid.
Waives community rating and essential benefits.
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) September 18, 2017

Here's what's in the bill:

Repeal Obamacare individual and employer mandates: Obamacare levies penalties on most Americans who don't have health insurance and larger employers who don't provide affordable coverage for their workers. The bill would eliminate the penalty, retroactive to 2016.

Related: GOP isn't done with Obamacare repeal

Repeals Obamacare subsidies and ends Medicaid expansion funding: The legislation would eliminate Obamacare subsidies that lower premiums, deductibles and co-pays in 2020. It would also jettison federal funding for Medicaid expansion, which 31 states use to provide coverage for residents with incomes up to about $16,000.

The legislation would turn the federal funding for Medicaid expansion and the subsidies into a block grant program. States would be given a lump sum of money and would have a lot of leeway over how to spend it.

For instance, they could help enrollees pay their premiums and out-of-pocket costs or set up high-risk or reinsurance pools to help protect insurers from costly enrollees and entice them to stay in the individual market. States could use a portion of money to help those enrolled in Medicaid afford care.

Graham and Cassidy say that this provision would return power to the states and allow them to create programs that fit their residents' needs. Also, it would equalize Medicaid funding across the states. The bill's authors note that four states -- New York, California, Massachusetts and Maryland -- get 37% of Obamacare funding

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Those four states make up 22% of the US population, and yet get 37% of Obamacare funding.

[Hitch]

Those four states make up 22% of the US population, and yet get 37% of Obamacare funding.

Sounds good to me. I'm in CA, one of those four states. Pay up bitches!!

[Horn]

Stands to reason, a higher incidence of "HAPPY" prozac type pills are needed in those states

for sane persons to live with their insane neighbors.^^

[Joshua01]

progressive cites are like cancer tumors, they grow and fester until they kill the host

[EE_]

nice

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/18/news...idy/index.html

Republicans likely have only two weeks left to use their 2017 budget reconciliation bill as a way to dismantle Obamacare with a simple majority in the Senate. The Graham-Cassidy bill is the only repeal effort left on the table, coming even as a bipartisan Senate committee is working on legislation to stabilize the Affordable Care Act.

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday it may take several weeks for it to release an analysis of the Graham-Cassidy bill so it remains to be seen how many fewer people could be insured under it or what the impact on premiums may be.

Graham-Cassidy in a nutshell:
Reduces federal spending and block grants it.
Caps Medicaid.
Waives community rating and essential benefits.
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) September 18, 2017

Here's what's in the bill:

Repeal Obamacare individual and employer mandates: Obamacare levies penalties on most Americans who don't have health insurance and larger employers who don't provide affordable coverage for their workers. The bill would eliminate the penalty, retroactive to 2016.

Related: GOP isn't done with Obamacare repeal

Repeals Obamacare subsidies and ends Medicaid expansion funding: The legislation would eliminate Obamacare subsidies that lower premiums, deductibles and co-pays in 2020. It would also jettison federal funding for Medicaid expansion, which 31 states use to provide coverage for residents with incomes up to about $16,000.

The legislation would turn the federal funding for Medicaid expansion and the subsidies into a block grant program. States would be given a lump sum of money and would have a lot of leeway over how to spend it.

For instance, they could help enrollees pay their premiums and out-of-pocket costs or set up high-risk or reinsurance pools to help protect insurers from costly enrollees and entice them to stay in the individual market. States could use a portion of money to help those enrolled in Medicaid afford care.

Graham and Cassidy say that this provision would return power to the states and allow them to create programs that fit their residents' needs. Also, it would equalize Medicaid funding across the states. The bill's authors note that four states -- New York, California, Massachusetts and Maryland -- get 37% of Obamacare funding

That's why the democrats are squealing so loudly about the block grants. I hope this gets passed. The republicans have to own it in order to fix it. They can file waivers and make changes later. Time for the Lib states to pay their own way.

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That's why the democrats are squealing so loudly about the block grants. I hope this gets passed. The republicans have to own it in order to fix it. They can file waivers and make changes later. Time for the Lib states to pay their own way.

please expand on the block grant hate --- why dont the marxists like it

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please expand on the block grant hate --- why dont the marxists like it

Because if the block grants are distributed fairly, you no longer have Jim in South Carolina paying for Pablo's kids in California like you do now.

[monty]

The thing about block grants . . . A method to blackmail the States into subverting the Constitution

[Horn]

The only way government healthcare works is if you turn healthcare into a public utility.

In the U. S. the entire market would need to crash or doctors from college level pogrammed into it.

The entire U. S. has its head up its ass trying to solve the unsolvable. Anyone wishing for passage of. Gov healthcare at this or any point is an ignorant stooge.