New GOP Health Care con keeps ACA benefits, then grants Waivers to ACA benefits!

Here’s my theory; Republicans want to keep the ACA framework in place so they can keep blaming “ObamaCare” for the failure of meddling “revisions.”

What else could explain the “new and improved” revised TrumpCare plan. Try not to laugh at how transparently ridiculous it is: Keep all the provision of Obamacare, but grant waivers to all the ObamaCare provisions!!! Nuts right?

The MacArthur Amendment would:• Reinstate Essential Health Benefits as the federal standard• Maintain the following provisions of the AHCA: Prohibition on denying coverage due to preexisting medical conditions. Prohibition on discrimination based on gender. Guaranteed issue of coverage to all applicants. Guaranteed renewability of coverage. Coverage of dependents on parents’ plan up to age 26. Community Rating Rules, except for limited waivers.

The amendment would create an option for states to obtain Limited Waivers from certain federal standards, in the interest of lowering premium costs and expanding the number of insured persons.

States could seek Limited Waivers for:• Essential Health Benefits• Community rating rules … freeing insurers to go back to using an individual rating system to set premiums … except for the following categories, which are not waivable: Gender. Age (except for reductions of the 5:1 age ratio previously established)o Health Status (unless the state has established a high risk pool or is participating in a federal high risk pool).

A former liberal radio talk host who likes to ask the “follow-up question” at Democurmudgeon.blogspot.com