Speaker of the House Paul Ryan made it clear during his CNN healthcare town hall that his plan to reduce healthcare costs involving moving cancer patients and other seriously ill people to high-risk pools that will be run by the states (if they can manage to afford to implement such plans) with benefits capped. In other words, cancer patients and other seriously ill people will be given less healthcare and lower odds of survival.
If you didn’t pay close attention to what Speaker Ryan is saying. He just blamed anybody with Cancer or some serious medical condition for the high rates everybody else is paying for insurance premiums, not that insurance companies and gougers like Martin Skhreli are raising prices through the ceiling, but that because you’re sick, you’re to blame. He also thinks you should be relegated to State High Risk pools of sick people with extremely high rates, astronomical co-pays and overall caps on what they have to pay out. The kicker is, if you don’t make that kind of money and don’t have enough equity in your home or can’t sell absolutely everything you own to get well … YOU are a dead person walking, simple as that.
What Speaker Ryan is NOT proposing something BETTER than the Affordable Care Act. If you’re sick or get sick like around 2.4 million high-risk patients and people with pre-existing conditions they don’t want to cover, he proposes to relegate you to RUC —Republican Unaffordable Care … in other words … the Republican equivalent of a Death Panel. On the other hand, if you’re healthy, they’ll take your health care premiums for their profit and pay out little if nothing at all after you made a bet you’d get sick and didn’t.
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