Policy and Legislation
While insurers will be able to price products more aggressively for seniors, they can expect volatility in the individual market from lack of mandates.
The biggest worry is that hospitals and physicians could bear the cost of uncompensated care the way they did before passage of the ACA.
Physicians from the six affected countries also make up a significant share of the workforce in the Rust Belt and Appalachian states.
The bill would give the states the ability to pull Medicaid enrollees from the program by counting their lottery winnings as income.
The former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services breaks down problem he sees with bill in 25-part Twitter thread.
Beginning in 2020, the GOP plan would provide tax credits to help people pay for health insurance based on household income and age, with a limit of $14,000 per family.
Projected federal cost to pay for Obamacare insurance in 2019 lowered to $148 billion from $214 billion, CBO says.
Many middle- and lower-income Republicans benefit from the health law's Medicaid expansion and marketplace subsidies.
Bill would phase out the Medicaid expansion.
The GOP is coming under pressure from members of its own party for lack of access to the draft bill.