that means you can pay for insurance that doesn t cover hospitalization or emergency room care, or ride in an ambulance or you getting pregnant or any other number of things that the insurance companies don t want to cover. number three, along those same lines, expect things like mental health coverage and drug treatment coverage expect those things to wither. number four, insurance companies will be able to charge old people five times as much as they charge younger people for the same health insurance. number five, big companies no longer have to provide health insurance to their employees. number six, hospitals this sounds a little bit like i get to this point and all the health policy articles about this stuff, i m not a hospital administrator i don t have to worry about it. it s very simple, do you live in an area where the hospitals are struggling or where there aren t that many hospitals left, obama care got tens of millions more
republicans just passed. states can get waivers so insurance companies can charge more for people with pre-existing conditions. states can opt out of the rules that require insurance plans to cover basic stuff. that means you can pay for insurance that doesn t cover hospitalization or emergency room care, or ride in an ambulance or you getting pregnant or any other number of things that the insurance companies don t want to cover. number three, along those same lines, expect things like mental health coverage and drug treatment coverage expect those things to wither. number four, insurance companies will be able to charge old people five times as much as they charge younger people for the same health insurance. number five, big companies no longer have to provide health insurance to their employees. number six, hospita this sounds a little bit like i get to this point and all the
his last version was wildly unpopular and was wildly unpopular for really good reason. it would have driven up costs on everyone. it would have taken coverage away from more than 20 million people. would have done away with essential benefits like maternity care and pediatric care and emergency room care and it would have gutted medicaid. that s why only 17% of the people in this country thought it made sense. that s why the percentages were so low. now he s taken he s coming back and taking the by all accounts, we haven t seen it of course but he appears to be taking the same legislation and flipping it on its head to acknowledge that all of the things that we hated about the that the american people hated about his last effort to overturn the fordable care act, that they are actually positive and that we re going to keep essential health benefits, we re going to keep the pre-existing condition language because people like it until you get to the fine print where he then points
one of the most important aspects of any health care plan. let me take a moment to explain something to you that you ve probably heard a lot about, essential health benefits. now, while there are things we can all choose about our health care plan, under obamacare all the providers had to guarantee an essential minimum level of coverage like preventive services, prescription drug coverage as well as maternity and newborn care. they also have to cover emergency room care including the ambulance that might take you there. they have to provide coverage for in-hospital stays including the operation that could be necessary while you re in the hospital. now, some people argue that you shouldn t have to pay for all that, that you should be able to buy plans that don t cover in-hospital care for example and thus save money on your monthly premium payments. these are so-called skinny plans or junk plan, plans that don t have the essential health benefits. here is the rub. most people just don
wrangle these votes? is it looking optimistic for the president? it was a day of a lot of negotiations. president trump himself met with lawmakers, but it looks like tonight they really did come up with something that has the potential to thread the needle and bring the conservatives onboard and make this really work. this last development tonight looks like it really could be successful. shepard: how did they do it. explain to our viewers what is change is. the term here is essential health benefits. really what this is about is, remember, the government gives people money through its subsidies, both in obamacare and through tax credits in this republican bill, to buy insurance. this is the other side of the equation. this is, what kind of insurance can you buy? under obamacare, insurers were required to include certain things in their coverage. pediatric care, maternity care, emergency room care, some mental health services, some