If you support the Republican Party, you presumably could not give the slightest fuck about this:
“The draft [health care reform] bill does not expand coverage; it does not do enough to protect people in need of care; nor does it provide enough assistance to those who need help in paying for health care and coverage,” said Bernard J. Tyson, the chief executive of Kaiser Permanente, a California insurer that offers plans on the exchanges in eight states and in Washington.
But it’s likely that you actually would care about this, if you could take off your right-wing blinders long enough to understand it.
If the Senate version becomes law, insurers could increase premiums for individual coverage by at least 20 percent more than the double-digit increases already under consideration. By 2020, other changes are likely to result in plans with much higher deductibles. People now getting tax credits that allow them to purchase a policy with a deductible of $3,500 would get subsidies for a plan where the deductible would nearly double, without any funding to pay their out-of-pocket costs.
Maybe I’m silly, but I think you should listen to the people who actually understand health care policy and the insurance industry. If they tell you that the Republican Party is going to make your deductibles much higher and cause your out-of-pocket costs to soar, you should probably listen to them.
You don’t even need to know what empathy is to understand that you’re about to get screwed six ways to Sunday.
