All we have to do is continue the fight, argue are causes, don't give up, don't back down, and sit back and watch this whole thing collapse.
Then don't ease up with the PUMMELING once it does!
Mark my words, it will be good.
Watch...
Then we don't show up in 2022 and they take back what we fought so hard to win because the ignorant masses don't know you have to vote every 2 years not 4
Isn't it funny that everyone who doesn't do as you do is ignorant?
I'm either right or I'm wrong.
Conservatives are working on changes to the GOP health overhaul bill. At the heart of those negotiations is the law's requirement that most insurance plans offer 10 specific categories of "
essential health benefits." They include hospital care, doctor and outpatient visits and prescription drug coverage, along with things like maternity care, mental health and preventive care services.
The want to strip required benefits, arguing that the coverage guarantees were driving up premium prices. "The insurance mandates are a primary driver of [premium] spikes," Ted Cruz, R-Texas,
wrote in March.
But health analysts and economists say that eliminating those benefits won't bring premiums down.
Essential Health Benefits
Under the Affordable Care Act, every health insurance plan must cover the following services:
•Ambulatory services (care you get without being admitted to the hospital)
•Emergency services
•Hospitalization (like surgery and overnight stays)
•Pregnancy, maternity and newborn care
•Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment (this includes counseling and psychotherapy)
•Prescription drugs
•Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
•Laboratory services
•Preventive care and chronic disease management
•Pediatric services, including oral and vision care (but adult dental and vision coverage aren't essential health benefits)
Republicans want to get rid of things like maternity care and mental health and substance abuse treatment as things that drive up premiums for people who will never use such services. But here’s the problem. These things don’t raise the prices that much. Hospital care, doctor visits and prescription drugs "are the three big ones. Unless they were talking about ditching those, the other ones only have a marginal impact.
Maternity care and mental health and substance abuse, he says, "are probably less than 5 percent" of premium costs.