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House Republicans' CHOICE Act would roll back some Obamacare protections

www.npr.org /sections/health-shots/2023/07/24/1189332308/house-republicans-choice-act-roll-back-obamacare-protections

tl;dr: republicans have pushed the CHOICE arrangement act through the house. this act which will push back regulations on "short-term" plans (which biden calls "junk insurance" because of how little they're required to cover compared to normal healthcare plans) & make them much more widespread. these plans, while cheaper, can often miss very important requirements such as prescription drugs, hospitalization, & mental health care

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  • Gotta love how the republicans try to make it seem like theyre giving you freedom of choice. If they really wanted to lift the burden of paid insurance companies and offer choice they would offer a public government option to people. Instead theyre offering something that's essentially just throwing your money away, unless you like get hit by a car and break every bone in your body(even then the likely high deductible and limited network and lack of hospitalization coverage will still bankrupt you).

    It reminds me of the conversation I was having with my family recently about how the big bad NY dems are taking away their CHOICE to use fossil fuels and its like no theyre phasing it out and offering subsidies for people to use alternatives. Theyre requiring new construction to be all electric, and then eventually theyre phasing out being able to buy a new gas furnace over a heat pump(which will also use less energy to run most of the year than your gas stove and also double as central air in the summer). Even then you can still keep and repair what you have it's just a matter of when it's finally time to make that expensive replacement you'll have to replace it with something good.

    Theres also fear mongering about them taking away smokers, grills, and firepits which I cant find anything other than right wing sites mentioning it cause "california did it" but then when I google california they didnt lose their grills either.

  • sure it would, only if Republicans controlled both the senate and executive like they do the house of representatives. but they don't, so it has no chance of passing, and articles about it are only meant to signal their supporters, of what might happen if they regain control of both. fuck off with republican propaganda. all the way off.

    • fuck off with republican propaganda. all the way off.

      the OP clearly does not agree with the bill so i have absolutely no idea what you're going off about

  • we called in insurance roulete when I was young. Plans only covered catastrophic things. Like being hit by a car. So we did not get it and hope nothing happened since it was otherwise useless. Don't want to see those days again. They already weakened it by taking out the mandate which the dems have no stomach to fight for and who can blame them. I doubt they will roll over tor this bullshit though.

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