Washington – The Senate has blocked a wide-ranging proposal by Republicans to repeal much of former President Barack Obama’s health care law and replace it with a more restrictive plan.
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Senators voted 57-43 late Tuesday to reject the plan in the first vote on an amendment to the bill. Those voting “no” included nine defecting Republicans.
The vote underscored problems Republicans will have in winning enough votes to recast Obama’s statute.
The rejected proposal included language by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell erasing the Obama law’s tax penalties on people not buying insurance and cutting Medicaid.
Language by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz would let insurers sell cut-rate policies with skimpy coverage. And there was an additional $100 billion to help states ease costs for people losing Medicaid sought by Midwestern moderates.
Perhaps now is the time to dive into single payer. lets all take off our Trump Maga caps or our bernie socialist caps now. No politics. Let’s debate this intellectually
So under single payer, what do you want covered essentials or everything?
If just essentials how do you quantify whats essentials? Is mental health essential How about dental? How about long term care?
Currently under medicaid everything is covered but at very low rates. Top dr’s won’t see you and many nursing homes are reluctant to take medicad patients
Under medicare dr’s get paid better. But many still purchase a secondary plan by the AARP for even larger access to a network of dr’s. Nursing homes get a alot more money but can only keep a sick patient or 90 or 120 days. After that times frame the patient is not covered. And if the patient is not sick or coming form a hospital they are not covered.
So do you want medicad or medicare? Are you OK with a secondary insurance market above essentials which means the care under “essentials” won’t be top notch and the rich will get more
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