Two states, Massachusetts and Arizona, have asked the federal government for permission to pick and choose which drugs they will cover for Medicaid beneficiaries.
In its failure to repeal Obamacare this fall, Congress should have learned a simple lesson: Americans want the government to see that everyone has health insurance.
This legislation, like the earlier versions of Trumpcare, is designed not to improve the U.S. health care system but to solve a political problem for Republicans in Washington.
The slow-motion collapse of the ACA was an avoidable crisis. The question, now that it is happening, is whether President Donald Trump and Congress want to work together to contain it.
The Republican plan, the American Health Care Act, repeals those and other taxes, totaling some $662 billion over 10 years. It also cuts Medicaid funding by $834 billion over a decade.
The ACA passes the test, because it requires insurers to accept all customers and not charge sick people more. The AHCA does not.
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