GOP lawmakers are working to craft ACA alternatives at Trump’s request – The Washington Post
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<quote>Many health economists have panned Trump’s plan, saying it is likely to create a “death spiral” in the ACA marketplaces. Healthy people would be prone to drop coverage, using the subsidies to pay out of pocket for whatever limited health care they need, leaving sick people behind and causing premiums to skyrocket.
The scenario smacks of déjà vu — with lawmakers and experts acknowledging the seemingly interminable battle around the 15-year-old health law, Republicans’ long struggle to deliver an ACA alternative that can pass Congress, and the return of a dynamic from Trump’s first term that repeatedly ended in failure.
Any new health care legislation would also face pressure from antiabortion groups, which have long resented how the ACA allows insurers to cover some abortions. Attempts to craft bipartisan changes to the health law have failed because of fights on whether to apply the Hyde Amendment — long-standing language banning federal funds for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is at risk.
Lawmakers must hash out major decisions in the span of a few weeks — with millions of Americans’ health care, and potentially their own political future, in the balance.</unquote>
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