Modern Healthcare May 4, 2017
House Republicans plan to vote Thursday on a revised bill that seeks to eliminate provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the legislation will result in 24 million people losing their health insurance by 2026.
Here are key elements of the bill:
- Ends the tax penalty against people without coverage.
- Ends the Medicaid expansion funding.
- Changes Medicaid from an open-ended program to one that gives states fixed amounts of money per person.
- Replaces the ACA’s cost sharing subsidies based mostly on consumers’ incomes and premium costs with tax credits that grow with age.
- Repeals taxes...
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