Missouri's U.S. Senate Race Casts Spotlight On Health Care, Pre-Existing Conditions

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Source: KCUR

Hawley is campaigning behind a plan that he pledges will force insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, though aside from an op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader in August, he hasn’t provided many details.

“It’s an insurance guarantee,” Hawley told reporters Monday after a rally in Riverside, just north of Kansas City. “An insurance access guarantee that says that folks with pre-existing conditions can buy insurance plans just like everybody else, on the same terms as everybody else and then the government guarantees on the back end that that price will remain the same.”

To make this financially workable, the federal government would reimburse insurance companies for each person’s medical costs that go over $10,000 a year. Hawley doesn’t say how this would be paid for.

Going forward with Hawley’s plan could be a major setback for Missouri residents, University of Kansas economist David Slusky said, because “it wouldn’t fix many of the problems the ACA fixed.”

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1. And republicans constantly fail the test of answering truthfully the question of what to ...

replace the ACA w/. They can't for they never answered the questions. In truth, they can't come up with a plan period. Never could, never will, and are still mad that Obama did w/o them or their help in Congress.

Remember their policies in Congress at the time Obama was in office was 'NO NO NO'!

Hypocrites. Bitch and moan about the ACA and yet can't come up w/ alternatives, or fixes, or anything for that matter. Shouldn't be any discussions until they come up w/ a comprehensive, viable fix to those areas of the ACA that need tweaking or fixing. It's working pretty good now. Quit bitching or fix it and shut up.

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2. We saw their failed plan in 2017.

The one the House passed that they celebrated in the White House rose garden. IIRC it didn't lower the cost of health care for anybody, greatly reduced subsidies on older Americans which in effect made their insurance premiums no longer affordable, and cut Medicaid 25% to the point that Governors were saying their states would have to start telling people to come pick up their aging parents from nursing homes because they would no longer have the funding to keep them.

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3. Yeah, I know and this was pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. I still remember their sickening ...

laughter on the WH lawn w/ rump. Disgusting.