Healthcare: Older Americans Will Provide Generous Benefits

In the White House, Republicans are working on changes in health care to provide older Americans with generous tax breaks and make new demands on the program. Medicaid for the poor. This was told by Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan Reuters.

Ryan added that Republican leaders still plan to vote on the health care bill in the House of Representatives on Thursday, March 23.

However, there is no consensus among Republicans about radical changes in the health care system, which is the first major legislative initiative of President Donald Trump. He keeps his campaign promises to cancel or replace Obamacare — the health care program of Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.

Democrats claim that the Republican plan will cut taxes for the rich and adversely affect millions of elderly, poor Americans, as well as working families.

“We believe we should offer even more help than the bill currently provides for low-income people ages 50 to 64,” said Ryan, the top Republican in Congress.

Trump is going to meet with Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy politician and special adviser to Obama, who helped create Affordable care acton, Paul Ryan and Tom Price, head of health and social services, on Monday at the White House.

The grant block will provide the states with a certain amount of money to cover the costs of people under the program Medicaid and provide flexibility in making spending decisions. However, there is no guarantee that funding will keep up with future requirements.

The bill will face serious problems in the Senate

Senator Tom Cotton, a conservative Republican from Arkansas, said the bill would not cut benefits for people in the private insurance market. “It’s fixable, but it will involve a lot of work.”

Moderate Republicans also expressed concern about the bill, and their experiences often do not coincide with the Conservatives.

Speaking on the channel NBC "Meet the Press" Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is concerned the bill will harm older Americans and cost states Medicaid will become even more.

Collins said policymakers need to consider how many people could lose health insurance. In doing so, he cited a report from the Congressional Budget Office, which predicted that 14 million people would lose health insurance within a year and 24 million over the next decade.

Recall that the Obama administration spent over $ 77 million in 2016 year to assist in the adoption of health legislation - ObamaCare.

The Law on Patient Protection and Affordable Medical Care, better known as Obamacare, was prepared on the initiative of Barack Obama and adopted in 2010, when the Democratic Party had an overwhelming advantage in both houses of Congress, says Air force.

Then the law did not receive a single vote from the Republican faction. That vote is considered by many to be historical, since before that no other grand reform in the social sphere had been adopted in the USA by the votes of only one party.

Proponents of the law point out that thanks to the reform, 20 million Americans have more health insurance than before. The vast majority of owners of new insurance receive subsidies from the state.

That the treasury could afford it, Obamacare obliges all Americans to have insurance. Otherwise, they must pay a fine of an average of $ 995 per year.

Since insurance still costs more, some Americans prefer to do without it and simply pay the due penalty. At the same time, critics of the law said that the constitution prohibits the state from forcing people to buy something from it.

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