One small step. The small step on a big issue, which has been locked in partisan stalemate for seven years. It is a step Congress Needs to take by the end of this month. Big to 18not so million americans. Get healthont insurance from the government are on the job, they buy them from that is the individual market. Nearly 300 million americans have Health Insurance. From a market. Buy it from a market. 9 million of those 18 million have no government help. Theyre the ones most hurts. Most hurt. Let us take someone in tennessee. Would receive no tax benefit to cover his 71 hundred dollars per year premiums. This does not include detectables or copays. Next year, the Tennessee Department of insurances premiums will go up as an increase between 1500 and 3000 and in premiums next year that doesnt include increases in deductibles and copays. She will have to pay a fit of your income on Health Insurance fifth of her a income on Health Insurance. At the end of september, blue our largest insure
Bill cassidy of louisiana and bill graham. What is in this measure . This is the last ditch effort therying to repeal Affordable Care act. What it will do is change the existing system of the Affordable Care act into a block grant. Ttates would get a se amount of money. They would take those dollars and implement either a plane similar to the Affordable Care act, they could go singlepayer or a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act. Particularly the Consumer Protection some folks like. These are the preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money to implement their own system. We will take a look at some of the details offered up i senator graham on the senate floor. Medicaidraham we keep in place. We try to get more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility. One thing i dont like, you can run to the emergency room and we pay a big bi
System of the Affordable Care act and change it into a block grant. States would get a set amount whatever they wanted care act, they could go single whatever they wanted in their Health Care System. They would take the dollars and implement a plan similar to the ffordable payer, or they can go a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act particularly the consumer protexases that some folks like. The preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money. Take a look at some of the details offered up by senator graham and well come back to our discussion. We keep medicaid in place as it is today. We try to give more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility to help poor people. One thing about medicaid, is you get a headache you run to the emergency room. I want them to have some ownership. If you smoke thats something that ought to be considere
By the end of this month. The step is not so big that 18 million americans, songwriters to government workers, those who dont get Health Insurance from the government or on the job, 18 million is only 6 of those who have helped her in in america, so that is the individual market. Nearly 300 million americans have insurance. Health insurance. Buy it from a market. 18 millionthat is 6 of all of the insured, and 9 million of those 18 million have no Government Health to by their insurance. Byy are the ones most hurt higher premiums and higher copays and deductibles. Let us take someone in tennessee. Making 35 million 35,000 a year receives no tax benefit to cover his 7,100 per year premiums. She takes him 91,000 after taxes, which means a fit of her takehome pay is spent on premium, and this does not include detectables or copays. Next year, the Tennessee Department of insurances premiums are going to go up as an average of 42 , an increase of 1500 and 3000 more in premiums next year, and