Holy cow, folks! What a crazy time for health insurance!
Politics aside, The Insurance Mom wants you to be really, totally clear about what’s happening in the wacky world of health insurance.
The first thing most clients ask me these days is about pre-existing conditions. What if I have an illness before I buy health insurance? What if my sick child loses coverage? “What-ifs” all over the place!
All we can do right now is breathe. We don’t know what’s going to happen with this bill (it’s not a law yet!). But I did want to shed some light on the latest MacArthur Amendment.
The LA Times did an EXCELLENT article on just this issue here: https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-gop-healthcare-macarthur-amendment-20170504-story.html
Here are a couple of excellent quotes… but the whole article is awesome.
“And it protects people with pre-existing conditions much as starving people may be welcome at a restaurant, but only if they order the most expensive dishes on the menu.”
“This much is clear: Republican lawmakers have provided a textbook example of how not to enact major legislation. They’re aiming to radically overhaul the $3-trillion U.S. healthcare system yet have shunned the input of major stakeholders such as medical organizations, hospitals and patient-advocacy groups, which are uniformly against the measure.”
What do YOU think, my lovely peeps? Do you believe everyone should help pay for the sick? Did you like the old way of doing things before the ACA? Do you benefit from Obamacare? Do you hate Obamacare (aka ACA)? Tell The Insurance Mom your every little thing!
