"Health-care policy is incredibly, unbelievably complicated. (Who knew, right?) But if you only learn about one issue, let it be this: whether insurers should charge people with preexisting conditions more because taking care of those people's medical expenses costs more.
It's the perennial sticking point in almost any health-care-reform bill, and House conservatives and President Trump might be at an impasse****about it now.
"I want it to be good for sick people. It’s not in its final form right now," Trump told Bloomberg News on Monday of****House Republicans' health-care bill. "It will be every bit as good on preexisting conditions as Obamacare."
In an interview with CBS's “Face the Nation” that aired Sunday, Trump promised to “beautifully” protect people who have preexisting medical conditions: “Preexisting conditions are in the bill — and I mandate it.”
Except, what Trump is promising is the opposite of what House Republicans are considering doing.
They are considering a bill that would allow states to allow insurers to charge sick people as much as they want for health insurance. Technically, health insurers couldn't refuse sick people insurance (like they could pre-Obamacare). But practically, sick people probably will be priced out of insurance under this legislation, since insurers could charge whatever they want, said Gary Claxton, a health-care policy expert with the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
“What the president says he wants is not what the amendment does,” Claxton said." WP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b7dcc76dbf44
Assholes.
