By passing the American Health Care Act by a vote of 217 to 213, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a major step in the process of repealing and replacing Obamacare. It’s now time for the Senate to act.
but i think when the cbo score comes in it s going to show that we have lower premiums were more accessibili accessibility. i think that the cbo score will be just fine. do you think there s going to be more accessibility? for example, one of the arguments that has been made by people who support it is that people are going to continue to be able to have coverage for preexisting conditions. and in fact insureds cannot deny coverage outright. but they can hike up premiums to an unaffordable level effectively prices people out of the market. one of the reasons that aarp opposes it is because they believe the prum yums can reached that. if you look at the bill itself, the macarthur amendment, and the bills added, you ll see that we ve taken care of preexisting conditions. the only time they can go up on the rates is when someone lets
analysis of the beill. that report tells us how the legislation actually affects how many people go without health insurance. now today the republicans have the report card from the cbo, and it doesn t look like an a. under the gop health care plan, 23 million more people would lose their health coverage over the next decade if the house gop plan becomes law. 23 million. it also says that the macarthur amendment, which allows states to waive out of protected people with pre-existing conditions and provide essential health benefits would destabilize the health care markets for those in non-group plans in one sixth of the country. senator tammy baldwin is a democrat from wisconsin and u.s. congressman tim ryan is a democrat from ohio. both represent states that voted for donald trump over hillary clinton. senator, what do you make of the fact of this vote, this new cbo report just how today that 23 million people will basically be dropped from health care coverage if the senate does wh
of medicine and has his own piece in the new york times as well. good to see you today. it made it through the house but a lot of breaks going on in the senates. what will have to change for it to move forward? i think there is opportunity for compromise here and certain things can change that will make it more likely for this to pass. for example, the macarthur amendment set you have up a situations where states could cut down on essential benefits. some of us don t think they re essential. emergency room visits are essential and vaccines and epidemics are essential, opioid addiction coverage. that s with the macarthur amendment say we want less of that. pre-existing conditions, if we have high-risk pools set up and people lapse in their coverage they could get their insurance through a high-risk pool. critics say the high-risk pools have always been underfunded. let s not underfund them.
now have zero choices. no insurers are willing to write there. a third of u.s. counties are down to one insurer. my own state, we re down to two. premiums are going up 58%, 68%, 100% in some areas. and the system is heading to a place where the people who have insurance today will have nothing. so we have to fix this. i just hope the senate can work as quickly as it can to approve the bill, make changes if they see needs to change. certainly not a perfect bill. i just hope they act quickly and we can move this forward. sandra: you authored a key amendment, the macarthur amendment. really credited for reviving this overhaul. can you explain to us what exactly ended up in that amenment, the macarthur amendment? well, i was trying to do a few things. one, the essential health