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2018 elections, ACA, and pre-existing medical conditions.

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2018 elections, ACA, and pre-existing medical conditions.

This Tuesday we’ll learn to what extent voters’ perceptions of the Affordable Care Act have already changed. Republican candidates are fearful and they’re promising to “protect” the prohibition of ACA insurers to increase prices of applicants due to their pre-existing medical conditions. This is occurring while Republican attorney generals are opposing the federal government's right to enforce those same prohibitions.

Additionally, Republicans are trying to enable cheaper and inadequate medical insurance to qualify as purchasable within Affordable-Care market sites. Those cheaper plans all enable increased prices for pre-existing medical conditions. Prohibiting increased prices for pre-existing conditions may already be, or I’m confident in the future they will be, both USA’s consumers’ and voters’ normal expectations. Such insurance at non-drastic prices cannot be sustained unless the young and the healthy proportion of our population are fully reflected within the adequately medically insured segment of our population.

If the Republicans efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act should ever succeed, USA would inevitably later adopt a more substantial federal healthcare policy. That later created policy would more likely be federal universal single payer medical insurance.

Respectfully, Supposn
 
The fact that the GOP has to now lie on the campaign trail and pretend to be in favor of the central tenet of the ACA's insurance market reforms signals that the politics have already shifted from previous cycles.

Eventually the garbage politicians in the GOP will come to actually mean the empty words they're offering to voters. And their decade-long game will be over.
 
like social security and medicare before it, equitable distribution of health care has become a deadly third rail not to be visibly touched by politicians who want to remain in office
 
like social security and medicare before it, equitable distribution of health care has become a deadly third rail not to be visibly touched by politicians who want to remain in office

Social Security was modified in 1983. The changes won't start taking effect until 2019. Those born in 1955 or later, won't be eligible for full benefits until age 66. Some other tiers kick in later. When Mitch McConnell talks about changing Social Security, he's full of BS. Is he going to change a system that is already under change?
 
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