URGENT: Oppose ACA Repeal

Round one for ACA repeal is over, but don’t despair. This is far from over. The Bill that narrowly passed the House last week has to go through at least four more steps. It has to 1. Pass an amended version in the Senate 2. Go to “conference“ to hammer out differences between the House and Senate 3. Pass in the House again 4. Pass in the Senate again As Indivisible North Seattle’s Jonathan Tong said so well “We’re going to be there, every step of the way, until this bill collapses under the weight of its own lies and cruelty.”   We will fight to oppose Trump Care, "The Unaffordable Health Care Act." and preserve as much of the ACA as we can.

The latest version of the AHCA (Trump Care) would make the harmful AHCA even worse by creating what is known as a "Limited Waiver Option" that allows states to eliminate or severely weaken vital current-law consumer protections-specifically, by allowing insurers to again charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions (by repealing the Affordable Care Act's community rating requirements) and striking the ACA's requirements that plans sold in the individual insurance market must offer essential health benefits (EHBs), like physician and hospital visits, prescription drugs, cancer screening tests, and mental health and substance use treatment.

While states would have the option of continuing the existing ACA protections for pre-existing conditions and essential benefits on their own, we know from the pre-ACA experience that many will not do so, leaving sicker patients in those states without affordable coverage or with skimpy insurance that does not include the benefits they need.  

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