Bloomberg news is reporting that bad news:
www.bloomberg.com/…
The details are still emerging, but the White House and Republicans are discussing a plan that would allow states to apply for waivers on some of Obamacare’s requirements, while still preserving its ban on excluding coverage of those with pre-existing conditions. States would have to show that their waiver “would improve coverage and reduce costs,” Collins said.
Meadows said that Obamacare’s community rating system, which prevents insurers from varying premiums within a geographic area based on age, gender, health status or other factors, would be eligible for the waivers. Such a change would allow insurers to charge sick people more for coverage.
The plan would rely on risk-sharing pools to be the “backstop” for people with pre-existing conditions who could be subject to higher premiums if the requirement on community rating were to be removed, Meadows said. “Marginally sick people” would pay the “risk cost associated with their coverage.”
In other words, high risk leper colonies and ghettos would be back… and it’s being well received by the Freedom Caucus people:
And if you think that this can’t happen, veteran congressional reporter Matt Fuller says this:
There is a two week recess coming up this Friday. Time to get to work!!!! Their hatred for healthcare will never go away, will it?