Trump disaster alert and coming soon:
More than 100 patient advocacy groups are warning that these Trumpcare Junk Health Care Plans will be “harmful to the most vulnerable patients”. AHIP says these junk care plans “will negatively” impact the health insurance market and you know what that means: rate hikes and less insured.
The Trump administration’s proposal to build up short-term health insurance plans as a "lifeline" for people who can’t afford Affordable Care Act coverage could split the insurance market in two, siphoning young, healthy people into cheaper, more minimal plans — while those who remain in ACA plans face premiums that spiral upward even faster.
The effects of that policy change, combined with zeroing out the individual mandate's financial penalty in 2019 will be harmful to the most vulnerable patients, according to more than 100 patient groups and many health policy wonks.
America's Health Insurance Plans, a major lobbying group for insurers, called for the short-term plans to be limited to six months. AHIP chief operating officer Matthew Eyles warned that expanding them as proposed "will negatively impact conditions in the individual health insurance market... exacerbating problems with access to affordable comprehensive coverage for all individual market consumers," in a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Trumpcare Junk Health Care Plans do not cover benefits required by the ACA, like maternity care, mental health, substance abuse, etc., etc.
Larry Levitt is a health care expert at Kaiser. He’s sounding the alarm as well.
When health care experts are warning about these junk care plans, you know the outcome of Trumpcare is going to impact Americans in a huge way:
Higher premiums.
Less insured.
Opioid epidemic?
Trumpcare Junk Health Care Plans will make the epidemic even worse.
Maternity care?
How about NO coverage. More Americans forced to have babies without coverage. More Americans filing bankruptcy. These costs passed on to the marketplace in the form of higher premiums.
This is Trumpcare and always use Trumpcare to describe our current health care system. Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party owns this disaster.
The impending Trumpcare disaster is unfolding right before our eyes and you know the Trump administration won’t heed these warnings, so look for health insurers to announce major Trumpcare health care rate hikes this fall.
Trump is bringing his vast experience of bankruptcies to our health care system.