No, it is simply a few of the major features of the current GOP plan, which will likely be imported into the compromise plan between the GOP in congress and Trump.
In other words, we'll both learn in January what the plan will be!
No, that is discounted-price riding. Generally speaking, the intent is to push insurance back towards catastrophic insurance (ie: insurance, as opposed to a socialized pre-payment program, which is what we are running with now).
The tax and mandate function as "discounted-price riding" if that's the term you want to use. And as to 'catastrophic' type insurance, that's great if you're young and healthy - like I gather you are. I take a drug that costs $3,000 a month, so a 'catastrophic' plan is just one with a huge deductible that I'll meet every single year, with no illness or injury. Same is true for lots of people with chronic illnesses like mine.
Ryan does not and never has proposed a cut to Medicaid. He has proposed block-granting it to the States, so that they can better find ways to spend the money to help their own unique populaces.
LOL, of course he did. Unless you work for some GOP Congressman, no need to try that crap. "Block granting" is budget code for "cut spending" with the hope that market forces work their 'magic.'
But this analysis estimates that Medicaid coverage will drop by 18 million people in the next decade, 10 million of that drop by 2019, and of course the whole point of Medicaid "reform" is to cut Medicaid spending, which Ryan's plan will do, by
$636 billion over 10 years, and $95 billion in year 10. The tax credit is about $360 billion so even if that is counted as replacing those losses (I'm being generous because the credits go to anyone at any level not covered at work or by Medicare/Medicaid), it's still a net cut of nearly $300 billion....
Nothing wrong with that, and whether it works or not depends on how big the credits are and who gets them. It will be nice for middle and upper income people who will all get some help, and not so good for poor people who can't buy comprehensive insurance for the credit amount, and for whom a serious illness will likely still bankrupt them if they are relying on a catastrophic plan. We will see - like I said, "little" things like the amount of the credits and who gets them are what we need to see.
Gosh. That kinda seems like the opposite of the claim that they don't even have one.
IMO, the "plans" so far are worth nearly nothing, but you disagree on the semantics, as we've discussed.
