Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies

Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies
Independent analyses find that most states would, in fact, experience serious cuts in federal aid — and everyone would face huge cuts after 2027.
The Affordable Care Act, which has reduced the percentage of Americans without health insurance to a record low, created a three-legged stool: regulations
that prevent insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, a requirement that individuals have adequate insurance (and thus pay into the system while healthy) and subsidies to make that insurance affordable.
As everyone in Congress — even Cassidy — surely knows, such comparisons drastically understate the real size
of cuts, since under current law spending is expected to rise with inflation and population growth.
Almost surely not, or they wouldn’t have produced something
that everyone, and I mean everyone, who knows anything about health care warns would cause chaos.
It’s not just progressives: The American Medical Association, the insurance industry and Blue Cross/Blue Shield have all warned
that markets would be destabilized and millions would lose coverage.
It replaces direct aid to individuals with block grants to states, under a formula
that sharply reduces funding relative to current law, and especially penalizes states that have done a good job of reducing the number of uninsured.
Both Cassidy and Graham insist that their bill would continue to protect Americans
with pre-existing conditions — a claim that will come as news to the A.