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What Could President Trump Do Through Executive Order To Dismantle The Aca

... programs pursuant to statutes, regulations, and guidance. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of HHS, for example, operates Health Care.gov, the federal marketplace, while the IRS administers the ACA’s premium tax credit and individual and employer responsibility programs. The administration could reduce resources to the agencies that operate ACA programs, undermining their administration of these programs. It could also cease enforcing or reduce enforcement of certain ACA requirements, like the individual or employer mandates, although such actions might be subject to legal challenge. The Trump administration will also have to make programmatic decisions with respect to state Medicaid or 1332 waiver applications. The Trump Administration’s Response To ACA-Related Litigation Will Be Crucial. The Trump administration will also have to ...

Town Hall Audience Member Tells Paul Ryan That Obama, Aca Kept Him Alive

... plan “failing” and promised to get rid of it, one audience member took the microphone and told the Speaker that he would be dead without President Obama’s efforts to pass the landmark piece of legislation. Ryan: We wouldn’t repeal ACA without a replacement. “We want to replace it with something better.” #Ryan Town Hall __link__/BMjbn Ns Tfj. — CNN (@CNN) January 13, 2017. “Why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement?” the man in the audience asked on the same day that Senate Republicans took the first step toward repealing the law without a replacement. Ryan quickly responded: “Oh, we wouldn’t do that. We want to replace it with something better. First of all, I’m glad you’re standing here.”. The man interrupted, “Can I say one thing? I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren’t for him.”. As Republicans move to dismantle a law for political ...

Paul Ryan’s Obamacare Repeal Plan Is As Confusing As Trump’s

... It’s the first part of a confusing three-step procedure that will allow them to defund Obamacare through budget reconciliation, bypassing a Democratic filibuster. The Senate just passed a budget resolution, and once the House approves the legislation the committees can begin working on how to do away with parts of Obamacare (but only aspects that relate to the federal budget). Once they agree on a plan, it will go up for a vote in the House and Senate. If it gets a simple majority, Obamacare will be defunded, with no presidential signature required. The legislation being voted on this week sets January 27 as a nonbinding deadline for the committees to come up with a plan to repeal the ACA. There’s no deadline for enacting a replacement plan, which would require 60 votes in the Senate to pass. To make matters even more difficult, Donald Trump has been voicing his own contradictory thoughts on the fate of Obamacare. On Tuesday he told the New York Times that he thinks he can pressure eight ...

Aca Signups Continue To Outpace Last Year, Hitting 11.5 Million

... with an average of 7% in increases in 2016. “Health insurance marketplace enrollment is currently on track to continue growing in 2017, contrary to predictions that higher premiums would spur large enrollment reductions that would damage the risk pool,” a White House Council of Economic Advisers report released Tuesday said. In fact, the Obama administration reported Tuesday that the rate of returning customers increased from 60% to 65% this enrollment period. “This outcome should not be surprising in light of the fact that the substantial majority of individual market consumers are eligible for tax credits that are linked to premiums and, therefore, protect them from premium increases," it continued. The large premium hike for benchmark plans has been described as a one-time occurrence to make up for under-charging plans. Future increases are expected to be more modest. The reported enrollment bump may still not be enough to get the Obama administration to its goal of 13.8 million people by the end of open enrollment for 2017. That number was lowered from original ...

Keith Ellison Wrong That Cbo Can't Analyze Obamacare Repeal

... wouldn't provide a cost estimate for ACA legislation at all," said Ed Lorenzen, a senior advisor to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and a former senior aide to House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland. "But the exemption only applies to the new requirement for additional information regarding long-term costs in CBO estimates of legislation.". The Congressional Budget Act requires a cost estimate covering the next 10 years for all legislation considered by Congress, he said, and "the rules package doesn’t change that.". Lorenzen added that the rules package doesn’t prevent CBO from making a long-term analysis of the costs of an ACA repeal — it just says that doing such an analysis isn’t mandatory. "There’s obviously a difference between saying something is not required and actually prohibiting ...

What’s The Plan?’ Senators Say Aca Replacement In The Works

... that Congress is already taking steps toward repeal. “We would like to know what the plan is to replace the Affordable Care Act, and ensure that there isn’t going to be a massive gap in coverage,” Simon said. Sen. Dan Sullivan said he doesn’t think Congress will immediately change or drop the subsidies that help most people who buy insurance on the exchanges. U. S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, in his Washington, D. C. office. Photo: Liz Ruskin. “We’re not looking to pull the rug out from people who have relied on this law, even though the law is not working,” Sullivan said. As to whether the ultimate plan is to eliminate the subsidies…. “I don’t have an answer to that right now,” Sullivan said. Sullivan said Congress has to make major changes, and soon. Sullivan points out that only one insurance company is now serving Alaska on the exchange and the cost of plans has shot up. “To do ...

King, Collins Split As U.s. Senate Advances Aca's Repeal

... Care Act. In a 51-48 vote early Thursday morning, the Republican-led U. S. Senate approved a budget resolution that facilitates repealing much of the Affordable Care Act through a process known as budget reconciliation. The resolution now goes to the House, where the GOP also holds a majority, and is expected to be approved by the end of this week. The New York Times reported that the approved measure instructs House and Senate committees to come up with repeal legislation by Jan. 27. U. S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, joined Democrats in opposing the budget resolution, while U. S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joined fellow Republicans in supporting the measure, according to the roll call tally of the vote. King issued the following statement about the vote: "The Senate has made a serious mistake tonight. The repeal of the Affordable Care Act, without a credible replacement, will ...

What Could An Aca Repeal Mean For Contraceptive Coverage

... coverage requirements for employers. According to KFF, most employers must include the coverage in their plans. However, houses of worship may receive an exemption if they have religious objections. Religiously affiliated nonprofits and closely held for-profit corporations may not receive an exemption, but may receive an accommodation, KFF notes. This allows these employers to opt out of providing and paying for contraceptive coverage in their plans, the brief states. 6. The ACA contraceptive coverage rule has been challenged by religious employers, with two cases reaching the Supreme Court. If the court decides stipulations of the rule violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, religious employers will be exempt from providing contraceptive coverage to workers. 7. A modification or elimination of the ACA contraceptive coverage rule would mean the ...

The Us Health System Is An International Scandal

... [Paul] Ryan-style evasion, repeal and delay, to pretend to be honoring their fervent pledges while avoiding at least for a time the consequences of a possible major collapse of the health system and ballooning costs. It's far from certain. It's conceivable that they might patch together some kind of plan, or that the ultra-right and quite passionate "Freedom Caucus" may insist on instant repeal without a plan, damn the consequence for the budget, or, of course, for people. One part of the health system that is likely to suffer is Medicaid, probably through block grants to states, which gives the Republican-run states opportunities to gut it. Medicaid only helps poor people who "don't matter" and don't vote Republican anyway. So [according to Republican logic], why should the rich pay taxes to maintain it. Article 25 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) states that the right to health ...

How Repealing The Aca Will Affect Minorities

... The new Republican Congress will soon attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. While their replacement plan is currently unknown—possible ideas include a system of tax credits or refunds and health savings accounts linked to high-deductible health care plans—broadly speaking, rolling back President Obama’s signature law is likely to cause confusion and chaos for the health care market. Lacking a replacement strategy by Congress, an estimated 18 million people who obtained coverage since 2013 via new state and federally administered exchanges are likely to have their coverage thrown into limbo. Certainly whites made up the biggest group of newly insured Americans under the ACA, with 9 million new people gaining coverage. But poorer minorities also benefited dramatically from provisions in the ACA, including an expansion of Medicaid that provided health care subsidies for many low-income people. Congressional Black Caucus to be More Aggressive Under Trump. Three million African Americans and 4 million Hispanics-the minority group most likely to lack health insurance-accessed coverage through the ACA. As a result, these groups saw uninsured rates drop ...

Aca's Repeal Would Devastate Fight Against Opioid Addiction, Researchers Find

... of overwhelming bipartisan majorities, authorized a $1 billion increase in treatment over two years, Frank and Glied noted in an article in The Hill newspaper in Washington, D. C. "It would be a cruel sham for Congress to take an important, but modest, step forward in investing in treatment capacity, while withdrawing funds from the enormous recent progress made in addressing the needs for care of those with mental health and addictive illness," they wrote. Caption How to administer naloxone. How do you administer naloxone to someone who has overdosed on opioids or heroin? Here is a how-to video courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Governor Tom Wolf's office. Caption How to administer naloxone. How do you administer naloxone to someone who has overdosed on opioids or heroin? Here is a how-to video courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Governor Tom Wolf's office. Caption Confronting the heroin epidemic in the Lehigh Valley. Former heroin addicts and ...

Why So Many Uncertainties Still Surround The Fate Of Aca

... that President-elect Trump plans to issue executive orders related to the ACA on his first days in office. However, Pence did not provide any details about what would be included in those executive orders. The evolution of payment reform and fate of CMMI. Post-election, Republicans have not commented publicly on their plans for payment reform. While we expect payment reform to move forward, there are many questions about how Republicans might adjust current programs and whether they will continue to operate CMS' innovation center in some form. We will be watching confirmation hearings and early activities of the new administration to get a better sense as to the future evolution of payment reform. The new administration's approach to MACRA. Similarly, Republicans have not made any statements post-election on how they will approach MACRA. Through the comment period on the MACRA final rule, several stakeholder groups called on CMS to ease MACRA requirements in 2018, seemingly hopeful that the new administration will be open to ...