now, eliminate the essential health benefits package which for breast cancer survivors like me means the kind of health care coverage they would be able to buy won t actually provide coverage and you ll go back to the days when women, sister survivors like mine would say, you know what, debbie, i had to choose between the chemo or the radiation because my insurance coverage wouldn t let me afford both. that s unacceptable. let s take another step down that road. price laid out several different things. i want your response. al la carte care, he s saying it s better to take it out because then chris cuomo who doesn t need prenatal care, doesn t need the same kind of screening doesn t pay for it. good for him. what is the downside to that policy? what happens then, number one, you take all the women who are of child bearing age and
basically are putting a mom tax on them and saying, like the old days, if you want maternity coverage, you ll have to buy a completely separate policy just that covers maternity care and that s going to increase costs unfairly and disproportionately. makes insurance companies price it only to people who need it and that will be a deterrent for them because they re in the business of not paying out. it s not just maternity care. taking away that essential health benefits package does is it leaves people with the idea that they have insurance coverage, but when they go to use it, the only thing it covers is the bearest of bear minimums, leaving them so underinsured that they can t afford to use their insurance because deductibles and co-pays are astronomically high. price says governors are coming to us and asking for this. in our reporting, i haven t heard a single governor say what i want is less money towards medicaid from the federal
what s going to happen to the essential health benefits package. that s one thing that s going to change. steve: explain that because the white house started dangling that in front of a number of republicans just last night. things are changing by the manipulate right now. under the affordable care act. the essential health benefits are essentially 10 requirements under each insurance premium including maternity care, mental health, addiction, so everyone is paying for these whether thee need these benefits or not. steve: could be 60 years old and need maternity care. everyone pay for a certain amount of things so everyone is covered. some people are unhappy about that. why are they paying for somebody s benefits that aren t theirs. it was an attempt at socialized medicine. steve: totook that requirement out that would save a lot of money. premiums go down substantially. there again, there are some in the house that go that will never pass the senate. however mike lee yesterday app