When Obamacare vanishes, watch for the fine print on Trumpcare
Mar 6, 2017, 8:09 AM
There are still Obamacare customers who have no idea whether they’ll be covered when Obamacare disappears.
So on Face the Nation, CBS’s John Dickerson tried to get Tom Price, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, to clear up who’s guaranteed to keep their insurance.
“Our goal is to make sure every single American has access to affordable coverage that’s of the highest quality,” Price said.
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He doesn’t use the word guarantee. Instead, the central principle is to give you a choice.
“What the president’s goal is, is to give people choices — to let them purchase the kind of insurance that they want,” he said.
And what kind of insurance do the people want?
“They want a system where the states have the flexibility and authority is returned to the states for the regulation of health coverage,” Price said. “They want to make sure they can buy across state lines …”
Under Obamacare, insurance policies came in three categories: Bronze, Silver, and Gold –- so you could quickly compare prices for similar policies.
But TrumpCare disposes of the nationwide standards, and each state sets its own. So you’ll have to do your own comparison based on your own careful reading of the health insurance standards of each of the 50 states.
Just out of curiosity –- have any of you read your actual health insurance policy? I can’t even get through my employee handbook without losing consciousness!
But I’m sure we’ll get help from classy ad brochures -– so that we never have to read the actual policy –- until we come down with the one illness that turns out not to be covered.
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