These marketplaces are designed to make it easier to shop for and compare health plans. The government manages the Marketplaces. They can be run by the state or national government — or sometimes the two work together. ACA or Marketplace Exchange plans are designed to give you basic health benefits. Depending on your family situation and annual income, you may be able to get a tax credit to help offset your health insurance costs.
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ACA Insights. ACA Requires Coverage for Preexisting Conditions Without the protection, four out of 10 adults ages 50 to 64 could be denied health coverage. Federal Subsidies Critical for the Low-Income Population Otherwise older adults with high medical expenses and chronic conditions would be unable to afford care.
Inside the Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' Closing the coverage gap protected millions of beneficiaries from high drug costs. Short-Term Health Plans Equal Higher Premiums Proposed rules threaten to increase costs for older adults who rely on individual market coverage. Short-term Plans Discriminate Against the Old and Sick Congress should reject skimpy policies that could undermine coverage for many older Americans. Individuals and families — especially the vulnerable — could suffer.
Communities could suffer, as well: Our hospitals are a key source of costly, lifesaving services, including trauma and neonatal intensive care, disaster response, and infection control. Without a CBO score, there are too many unknowns and too great a risk of coverage losses without affordable alternatives for many Americans.
Congress must work with all stakeholders to ensure that those who have coverage now do not lose it, that entitlement reform does not shift costs to states and providers, and that reform sustains a strong and secure safety net. Lawmakers must halt action on this bill until the CBO scores it and stakeholders can fully evaluate its provisions with that score in hand. As lawmakers work to re-examine this law, patients and the caregivers who serve them across America are depending on Congress to make continued coverage a priority.
Lacking that level of analysis and needed transparency, we urge that Congress should. American Public Health Association : This proposal would jeopardize the health and lives of many millions of Americans. American lives are on the line. It is particularly troubling that legislators plan to consider this proposal without a score from the Congressional Budget Office.
National Disability Rights Network : The legislation revealed by House Republicans last night is a giant step backwards in the treatment and care of individuals with disabilities. It repeals the expanded Medicaid match that encourages the community integration of people with disabilities and counters biases that lead to institutionalization.
It permits discrimination against people with disabilities in the insurance market for their pre-existing conditions. It caps Medicaid funding which means a sharp reduction in services and availability of this important health care lifeline for children and adults with disabilities.
In short, this plan is terrible. The National Disability Rights Network urges the House not to send people with disabilities back to a time when it was nearly impossible for us to obtain health insurance, live in the home of our choice or participate in community life. We will never go back to those days.
Their proposal radically overhauls and cuts Medicaid while simultaneously gutting the ACA by repealing financial assistance for low-income families and making it harder for people to afford coverage. It also defunds Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program, denying 2. The EHB standard is a groundbreaking advance for women's access to quality insurance coverage. It would harshen and expand already harmful abortion coverage restrictions, denying women the ability to access the care they need.
The Republican repeal bill is an affront to women and families. This bill takes us back to the days when there were few benefit standards or consumer protections in place — to a time when insurers were the ones who decided what and who they would cover, what doctors we could see, and where we could get care.
Right now, this Congress seems hell bent on taking health coverage away from tens of millions of people, increasing health care costs for working people, and destroying Medicaid.
We believe the drastic cuts it proposes to Medicaid, coupled with the substantial reductions in subsidies that helped millions afford healthcare would be extremely detrimental to our patients. Moreover, the bill would, in effect, shift huge costs onto working families, force many to pay more for worse coverage and push millions of American off of health coverage entirely.
All the while, the proposed legislation hands millionaires, billionaires and health insurance CEOs a massive new tax break.
The National Physicians Alliance supports efforts to improve healthcare in America. However, we believe the misguided priorities in this bill would move us in the wrong direction. For more than a century, the labor movement has fought to make health care a right for every American.
The Republican plan contradicts this very idea by making care less affordable and accessible. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees : The replacement plan put forward by congressional leadership is no replacement at all for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act to keep their families healthy without fear of bankruptcy.
It is simply a tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, funded by gutting Medicaid and shifting health care costs onto states and working families. This so-called replacement plan strips women of access to vital preventive care services by defunding Planned Parenthood.
It endangers Medicare solvency and allows insurance rates for older Americans to skyrocket. Millions of working people, children and people with disabilities will be put at risk. In fact, some of the only interests who stand to gain from this plan are the health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations that will receive massive tax breaks, paid for by increasing out-of-pocket costs for patients.
Though this bill has been kept secret, and congressional leadership has failed to provide lawmakers and the public with a CBO score for their legislation, we already know that it will leave millions without coverage. But the questions remain — how many will lose their coverage, and at what cost to jobs, local economies and state budgets?
No vote should occur on this legislation until those questions are sufficiently answered. The changes to Medicaid will devastate a program that is a lifeline for 74 million vulnerable Americans, including children, people with disabilities, and 18 million Latinos.
This effort to radically change the financing structure of Medicaid will jeopardize their lives. Under the guise of flexibility, this plan would end Medicaid as we know it by phasing in per-capita caps.
Under the guise of access, the bill would reduce the financial support that is allowing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans to afford their monthly premiums. In contrast, the ACA provides assistance to all lawfully present persons.
The proposed rule, with a comment period ending today, would undermine the strength of the health insurance Marketplaces while reducing access for consumers. In total, members of Congress who oppose the ACA are putting aside regular order to dismantle the law without fully explaining their plans.
House Republicans are pushing this bill through committees without a score from the Congressional Budget Office and not taking into account the potential impact on the lives of 20 million Americans, including 2 million AAs and NHPIs who stand to lose coverage if the law is repealed. In , Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole receive a 60 percent discount on brand-name drugs and a 49 percent discount on generic drugs.
The law closes the coverage gap in when beneficiaries will pay 25 percent of the cost of their drugs, what beneficiaries pay now before entering the donut hole.
Under provisions of the ACA, Medicare beneficiaries are eligible to receive many preventive services with no out-of-pocket costs — no coinsurance or Part B deductible. These services include flu shots and tobacco cessation counseling, as well as screenings for cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases. Read the House health care bill PDF.
A page manager's amendment on the health care legislation posted Tuesday night made mostly technical changes in the nearly 2,page bill compiled from three Democratic proposals passed by three House committees.
By making the changes public Tuesday, House Democratic leaders could open floor debate on the bill Friday, while fulfilling their pledge to allow 72 hours of review before bringing the measure to the full chamber. Pelosi insisted Thursday she will have the votes necessary to pass the bill. Meanwhile, President Obama is set to huddle Saturday with congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill to review the legislation.
The AMA's president, Dr. James Rohack, told reporters Thursday that the legislation is "not a perfect representation of our views" but is close enough to warrant his group's support and keep the reform process moving forward. Rohack said the bill needs to be accompanied by legislation reversing scheduled Medicare reimbursement payment reductions to physicians. Responding to the AMA endorsement, Obama said the doctors' group is "supporting reform because [its members have] seen firsthand what's broken about our health care system," Obama said.
Watch Obama say health care reform is moving forward. Meanwhile, House Republicans on Thursday continued to signal their opposition to the measure. GOP leaders held a rally on Capitol Hill along with "Tea Party" movement protesters and other activists to warn that the House legislation would translate into a full-blown government takeover of the health care system.
Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, told CNN's "American Morning" on Thursday that Democrats had forgotten the lessons of August's town hall meetings when angry conservatives criticized health care legislation.
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