Voting FOR Democrats will probably Get or Increase Your Healthcare Benefits

Democrats probably could not go too Strongly to Bring Healthcare Benefits back to pre- Trump level…

But would have to plan and move cautiously since Trump is still gonna be the President for another 2 years….

The linked piece below points to 2029….

But efforts ARE bound to start on Jan. 1, 2027…..

Things WOULD definitely move away from the Trump and Republican led lawmakers efforts to keep cutting benefits for Americans …..

 

Leading congressional Democrats, including Sen. Ron Wyden of the Finance Committee, are hedging their bets, but the most likely scenario is still one of incrementalism rather than sweeping reform.

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A potential guide for what Democrats might do in lieu of Medicare for All can be found in a document posted in July by Wyden on behalf of many of his Senate colleagues. It lists scores of ideas for reforming healthcare insurance and care delivery, including through the possible adoption of Medicare for All, although the balance of the paper points toward more public control and regulation than a major push for a monolithic public plan.

Wyden is following the playbook Democrats used to successfully advance the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from 2008 to 2010. In the months leading up to the 2008 election, then-Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus had worked with outside experts and fellow Democrats to draft a white paper on healthcare, which he released just days after then-Sen. Barack Obama won the presidency. That document would serve as the blueprint for the bill Baucus would draft and pass in the Senate in 2009, which later became the foundational ACA law.

Many healthcare concepts that are now familiar because of their inclusion in the ACA were promoted in the Baucus white paper, including the individual mandate, new premium subsidies for non-employer coverage for individuals with incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty line, a large Medicaid expansion, and accountable care organizations, which are provider-led—as opposed to insurer-owned—managed care plans.

Wyden is explicit in his July release that he views the development work conducted by Baucus before 2009 as a model for what he hopes to accomplish in the run-up to 2029. However, he framed the ideas presented in the July release not as proposals he supports but as ideas for which he is soliciting feedback (responses to his “request for information” are due by October 2). It is possible, depending on what occurs in November 2028, that Wyden will publish a more prescriptive plan after the election to signal more clearly his intentions for 2029.

Wyden’s document zeroes in on consumer dissatisfaction with aspects of private insurance and divides the ideas under review into three categories: lowering costs for consumers and making enrolling in insurance easier, removing barriers to accessing care and lowering administrative costs, and regulating the for-profit companies providing insurance and care to patients.

Some of the more noteworthy concepts included in the document include:

• reversing most of the budget cuts and regulatory changes implemented during the second Trump administration
• developing transition plans that might allow Medicare for All to be approved with less immediate disruption to the current coverage of many Americans
• creating an option for states to offer single-payer coverage
• creating a nationwide “public option,” sponsored and run by the federal government, that would be offered to consumers buying individual coverage through the exchanges established by ACA and which might use Medicare’s regulations to set reimbursement rates for services or allow the government to negotiate rates with the providers of services in each market

• developing new Medicare or Medicaid “buy-in” options that could be offered to all Americans regardless of their employment status and incomes
• creating a single online entry point for enrolling in coverage that both those getting employer-sponsored and non-group coverage could use
• allowing states to add to essential health benefits based on emerging evidence of effective services…..

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