The “we’re all gonna die so we might as well kill the poor people so rich people can get richer” Republicans are not branding their plan, via their Billionaires’ Budget Bill, to throw millions of Americans off the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and Medicaid as a “repeal.” They know the ACA is quite popular. Also, there’s no plan to replace it other than “Don’t get sick” and “Die quickly.”
So, the Trump/MAGA plan is to kill off the program – and many Americans – quietly.
Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reform’s CHIRblog explains how more than 22 million people would face “considerable new paperwork burdens in order to maintain their Marketplace coverage at an affordable premium” under the Billionaires’ Bill. That includes newborns, people getting married or divorced, people who lose their jobs or have an income change. “Combined with recent cuts to Marketplace Navigators and call center caseworkers and shorter enrollment windows, many of these people are likely to lose their coverage; in some cases the coverage loss could be long-term,” CHIRblog says.
