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The effort by a partisan judge to try to help the GOP overturn the ACA is best viewed as an attack on health care for everyone.
It would hurt people who get coverage through their employer, through Medicare, through Medicaid, and who purchase it on their own. /1
It would hurt people who get coverage through their employer, through Medicare, through Medicaid, and who purchase it on their own. /1
Get coverage through your employer?
You'd see a return of annual and lifetime limits; wouldn't necessarily be able to keep your adult children on your plan; and would lose free preventive services. And you'd no longer get a rebate if your premiums are too high. /2
You'd see a return of annual and lifetime limits; wouldn't necessarily be able to keep your adult children on your plan; and would lose free preventive services. And you'd no longer get a rebate if your premiums are too high. /2
On Medicare?
You'd get a return of the prescription drug donut hole; face cost-sharing for preventive services like mammograms; and some beneficiaries would face increased premiums and out-of-pocket costs. /3
You'd get a return of the prescription drug donut hole; face cost-sharing for preventive services like mammograms; and some beneficiaries would face increased premiums and out-of-pocket costs. /3
On Medicaid?
Millions would lose coverage with the end of Medicaid expansion, you'd pay for preventive services like children's vaccines; and more people would have to go into institutional care rather than receiving care in their homes. /4
Millions would lose coverage with the end of Medicaid expansion, you'd pay for preventive services like children's vaccines; and more people would have to go into institutional care rather than receiving care in their homes. /4
Buy coverage on your own?
You'd see a significant increase in costs; could be charged more or denied coverage if you have a preexisting condition; and could be charged an age tax. /5
You'd see a significant increase in costs; could be charged more or denied coverage if you have a preexisting condition; and could be charged an age tax. /5
You can't read the ACA decision as a legal doc, b/c it ignores the law. So you have to understand it as a policy doc, pushed by state GOP officials and supported by Trump.
And that policy is clear: make health care worse for everyone. /6
And that policy is clear: make health care worse for everyone. /6
