Is anyone in your family
a) on a prescription medication?
b) had a past illness or surgery?
c) female?
There are a lot more “pre-existing conditions” than you’d think.
You can thank your members of Congress for the pain ahead should the American Health Care Act of 2017 become law.
Start with Rep. Scott Tipton, who voted “yes” on this bill to pull $1 trillion out of health care to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. That’s $1 trillion to be extracted from families like yours, through the loss of premium subsidies, rate hikes for “pre-existing conditions” (crushing for some), reduced coverage (for many) or even complete loss of health care (for tens of millions). The money has to come from you somehow, but the choice of cash vs. coverage is up to you!
If you don’t like the sound of AHCA choices, perhaps you’d prefer the opposite as proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Let us move to a Medicare-for-all system that does what every other major country on Earth does: guarantee health care to all people at a fraction of the cost per capita that we spend.”
Sadly, it’s the AHCA that’s in the Senate now – what will Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet do?
Doug Fults
Durango
