With Trump is elected, this could be the first bill passed when he becomes President.

KennethCaseyMLB said:

As it states here, https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3762, "This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to terminate the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which provides for investment in prevention and public health programs to improve health and restrain the rate of growth in health care costs. Unobligated funds are rescinded."

This bill was passed in the House and Senate, with every single Democrat (including Independent Angus King of Maine) voted "Nay" on the bill in the senate. Every Republican, except for Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine voted "Yea" on the bill. It only takes 50/100 of the Senators to vote "Yea" to get this bill to the president's desk. Of course, when this bill was brought to Barack Obama's test, he vetoed the bill. That would be different with President Trump.

This would be a big chunk and the heart of ObamaCare repealed. Opinion?

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Net Effects on Health Insurance Coverage
Without taking into account effects on coverage that would result from leaving in place the ACA’s insurance market reforms while repealing the subsidies and mandate penalties, CBO and JCT estimate that enacting H.R. 3762 would increase the number of people without health insurance coverage—relative to current-law projections—by about 22 million people in most years after 2017. That increase in the uninsured population would consist of roughly 14 million fewer individuals with coverage under Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, about 10 million more individuals with employment-based coverage, and 18 million fewer individuals with coverage obtained in the nongroup market (including individual policies purchased through the exchanges or directly from insurers in the nongroup market).

CBO and JCT have not estimated the changes in coverage from leaving in place the ACA’s insurance market reforms while repealing the subsidies and mandate penalties. However, the agencies expect that, relative to the numbers provided above, leaving the market reforms in place would lead to a further reduction in the number of people covered in the nongroup market and an additional increase in the number of uninsured and people with employment-based insurance.

CBO and JCT project that repealing the subsidies and mandate penalties established by the ACA while leaving in place the insurance market reforms would result in a less healthy population in the nongroup market and correspondingly higher average premiums. In addition, the market for nongroup insurance, particularly in smaller states, could become unstable, leading to very low to no participation by insurers and consumers.

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MaggieD said:

How can anyone have an opinion without knowing the ramifications?

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Greenbeard said:

Sounds great.

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