Healthcare plan or tax cut?
for families insured with the help of premium tax credits. Less visible is the cruel tax increase on those who lose both the premium tax credit and their health insurance. (Tax Policy Center)
Under the Republican plan, Floyd County families, who qualify for a premium voucher, will see an average insurance premium increase of $1,875. Most of our 4,010 neighbors, who were able to purchase insurance through ObamaCare, will not have the money to maintain coverage. Each year purchasing power of the Republican AHCA premium voucher will decline as health plan premiums rise. Likewise, out-of-pocket payments will exceed the means of most of our neighbors and the number of uninsured local families will grow. (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
Next year, 14 million Americans will lose health insurance. By 2025, over fifty-four million working poor, middle class, and indigent people will be uninsured.
Tom Price, Georgia businessman, former physician, and Secretary of Health and Human Services, wants you to believe that Republicans’ first priority is saving you from the ObamaCare disaster. He assures you more than a trillion dollars cut from our healthcare system will not decrease your family’s access to healthcare or increase your risk of medical bankruptcy. Don’t be fooled.
Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, reported in January on a survey of Trump voters enrolled in ObamaCare through the ACA marketplace or Medicaid. Altman wrote, “They have no strong ideological views about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, or future directions for health policy. What they want are pragmatic solutions to their insurance problems. The very last thing they want is higher out-of-pocket costs.”
Whatever the Republican legislation is called, it has absolutely nothing to do with protecting and improving the health and financial security of American families. It is a Trojan horse concealing a tax giveaway to the uber-rich paid for by taking away healthcare from 24 million American workers, nursing home patients, children, and disabled persons.
As our Republican president would say, “It’s a really, really beautiful thing; you are going to love it.”