She is Senior Health correspondence and she tweets. Thank you for having me. The stock wrote the first Republican Senate bill and the new version, where the big differences . One is the amendment by senator ted cruz, republicans in texas talking about allowing insurers to sell plans that are not necessarily as comprehensive as the coverage under the Affordable Care act. If you have 18 can require benefits and things like maternity healthcare they can offer plans that are not us, prehensile. Theres a lot of concern about that in a particular people who are healthier will go to the less generous plants and people who are sicker will go to the comprehensive plans and drive prices up. Theres more money, about 70 billion more in the bill to help insurers deal with some of the higher cost cases. Thats a big issue with the Affordable Care act. E e are coditional money for that, a lot of senators wanted that to help drive down costs. That is one of the changes. The major medicaid changes remai
Alex, what are the next steps in the senate as they work to replace the current healthcare law . The Congressional Budget Office will score the revised healthcare bill monday. We could see the motion to proceed on tuesday. If they can get 50 republican senators to do that, we could see extended voting session throughout the week with a final vote on passage at the end of the workweek on thursday, maybe friday morning. The majority leader released a draft version of the bill on thursday, custom medicaid still in place, some concessions to moderate republicans to conservative republicans, what is support by now as for as you know . They need 50 republican senators for this to pass. You seem to republican senators, rempel kentucky and the center from maine who came against the bill. A number for medicaid extent expansion sites, dean heller of nevada, rob portman of ohio, shelley of west virginia, surrounded by reporters this week trying to figure out what their opinion is on the spill. Th
She is Senior Health correspondence and she tweets. Thank you for having me. The stock wrote the first Republican Senate bill and the new version, where the big differences . One is the amendment by senator ted cruz, republicans in texas talking about allowing insurers to sell plans that are not necessarily as comprehensive as the coverage under the Affordable Care act. If you have 18 can require benefits and things like maternity healthcare they can offer plans that are not us, prehensile. Theres a lot of concern about that in a particular people who are healthier will go to the less generous plants and people who are sicker will go to the comprehensive plans and drive prices up. Theres more money, about 70 billion more in the bill to help insurers deal with some of the higher cost cases. Thats a big issue with the Affordable Care act. E e are coditional money for that, a lot of senators wanted that to help drive down costs. That is one of the changes. The major medicaid changes remai
Alex, what are the next steps in the senate as they work to replace the current healthcare law . The Congressional Budget Office will score the revised healthcare bill monday. We could see the motion to proceed on tuesday. If they can get 50 republican senators to do that, we could see extended voting session throughout the week with a final vote on passage at the end of the workweek on thursday, maybe friday morning. The majority leader released a draft version of the bill on thursday, custom medicaid still in place, some concessions to moderate republicans to conservative republicans, what is support by now as for as you know . They need 50 republican senators for this to pass. You seem to republican senators, rempel kentucky and the center from maine who came against the bill. A number for medicaid extent expansion sites, dean heller of nevada, rob portman of ohio, shelley of west virginia, surrounded by reporters this week trying to figure out what their opinion is on the spill. Th
The major medicaid changes remain and there are some decisions and the major thing we have to remember about medicaid. The would change the structure. Instead of being a state program maybe a zika outbreak or. Urricane or something in and there are also medicaid, some other changes that include, changing a formula that would provide more money to help provide uncompensated care. Say. It is one change that is important. Host let me talk to about medicaid. It is a fundamental issue. If you are a governor of a state and you receive a block grant and you cap out, what happens to those individuals who the health care . Guest that is a decision you and your legislature have to make. If you have more expenditures than the cap level, do you reduce the number of beneficiaries . Do you reduce the Services Offered . Do you require beneficiaries to pay more . These are tough choices that have caused concern for folks. Vacate covers 70 million americans medicaid covers 70 million americans. Making