Bernie Sanders Exposes And Obliterates The GOP's Trumpcare Scam

Senate Republicans have proposed a healthcare bill that would force people into expensive junk plans that would make healthcare worse according to a new report from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Senate Republicans have put forward their big idea on healthcare. The new Senate GOP legislation would give $1,000-$1,500 a year to buy healthcare.

The Republican plan is based on Trump’s idea of getting rid of ACA subsidies and replacing them with checks.

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Here is how Sen. Bernie Sanders summed up the Senate Republican plan:

In order to receive the checks proposed in the Cassidy-Crapo bill, which would total just $1,000 for younger adults and $1,500 for older adults, working families would be required to switch from gold or silver health insurance plans to bronze or catastrophic plans. The lower-quality health insurance plans that Cassidy and Crapo are encouraging come with outrageously high deductibles of $7,500 and $10,000 for individuals and up to $21,200 for households.

Under the Republican plan, costs would be shifted to the American people. Americans would be given less money to buy inferior healthcare, that would cover less and cost more.

The Sanders report found:

1). The Cassidy-Crapo proposal would be disastrous for any family with even modest medical needs. The Cassidy-Crapo proposal:

1. Increases out-of-pocket medical costs: While bronze and catastrophic plans currently have lower premiums, they come with much higher out-of-pocket costs, like deductibles, copays and coinsurance and are not eligible for cost-sharing reductions.6 The national average deductible for a bronze plan is $7,500. The national average deductible for a catastrophic plan is set as the out-of-pocket maximum, which is $10,600. Under the Cassidy-Crapo proposal, the approximately 17 million people with “gold” and “silver coverage” would be forced to choose between plans with lower deductibles and out-ofpocket maximums or receiving the prefunded proposed savings accounts. A $1,000 or $1,500 pre-funded account could be thousands of dollars less than the increase in deductibles that consumers would need to pay for medical care. . For example, forcing consumers to switch from silver to bronze coverage would increase their deductible by over $2,000, on average, for individuals who do not get cost-sharing reductions. For the lowest income consumers who do get cost-sharing reductions, their deductible could increase from $80, on average, to nearly $7,500, on average.

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