And you don’t know that. Unless you are one of the tiny minority who’s even read the EO plus understands it, you are just taking the left’s word. And we know people never misrepresent to advance their own agenda, right!
Yeah, I do know that, probably better than the vast majority of posters here. You do know that the administration, under the direction of the HHS, has been steadily undermining the ACA's regime, including refusal to pay the CSR's (which many state EOs, including Kentucky and Illinois, are suing the administration over right now) and a 90% reduction of funds designed to recruit and maintain a steady supply of enrollees in any manner of health insurance providers, including Medicaid Expansion, right? Hell, the HHS has pissed off many conservative state governments by utterly refusing to provide outreach and support to states this year. Right now, my state, which used to have dozens of navigators (who help find plans that fit the requirements and needs of constituents, and often get them better deals in the process), now has the entire state covered by
one guy. My office used to go to the prisons to get prisoners, an overwhelming majority of whom have drug addiction and/or mental health problems, ready to join Medicaid Expansion (because they have no income) in order to get treatment to reduce recidivism, because the state government wouldn't take care of it. That's gone. This is going on at the same time that my state, along with many other conservative states, are trying to do criminal justice reform to reduce the burden of prisons on the state budget. Not going to go well by next biennium.
Then the EO is going to shift the insurance market into healthier and non-healthy pools, with an estimated premium rate increase of about 12-15% next year.
And that's
before we get into the impacts of either the AHCA/BCRA framework which the administration endorsed,
or the proposed tax plan which slashes Medicaid funding by $1 trillion and Medicare funding by $400 million.
Playing ignorant, because of some vast abstract conspiracy that people who are different from you are going to concoct lies is a good way to remain ignorant.
