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Trumpcare, like or dislike !

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Azza Sokkar writes

Whether to Like or dislike, the leadership of Barack Obama has ended and now the United States is led by a new president, Donald Trump as the winner of the American presidential election that was held a few months ago. Obviously, the policies announced by the new US president are definitely different from the policy of the previous president, especially in the term of health care. If the USA had Obamacare when Obama was leading, but now Obamacare is being replaced by TrumpCare, American Health Care Act (AHCA) to match the name of the new leader of this superpower country and it is supported by Paul Ryan who is currently Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Both Obamacare vs Trumpcare have their pros and cons. While this new health care policy is still in very initial stages, through this brief article, we could briefly list the pros and cons of Trump care as the GOP replacement for Obamacare.

If we highlight the pros of Trumpcare, we can find the following:

  • Some of the bills are still taken from earlier president’s provision. However, not all of the provisions are adopted by Trump, but it only takes the essential health benefits. So, Trumpcare does not remove the previous good provisions and they still use some of the Obamacare provisions, but not much.
  • Helping all of the people according to class level and it will really be helpful for any middle class people because it will give a significant help to the middle class that did not get covered yet.
  • Trumpcare will begin to get rid of some Medicaid funding and it may give a chance to Democrats in order to expand their governmental.
  • There is no longer fee needed for those who do not have insurance. In fact, Trumpcare also still keeps the mandate, only removing the fee.
  • Trumpcare allows insurance service to provide insurance across state lines by reducing the cost plans despite it may cause fewer protections to the users.
  • Trumpcare is a fresh health care service with some interesting plans such as giving a permission to the insurance to sell over state lines, Medicaid grant blocking, making a sick pool and healthcare litigation decrease. But, the people may think that those policies are bad if Trump government does not conduct it properly or the people may disagree if it can even make the poor and sick starve and suffered because they do not get fund on time.
  • Trumpcare is really beneficial for large company owners and the bill will try to reduce the tax burden for those business owners. But, for the small employers, there is no regulation change.

But the cons of Trumpcare may be as follows:

  • Trumpcare is known to make the poor people feel more suffered while it only makes the big employers and rich people happy to get this health insurance. Besides, there are still many sick and poor people in the country that needs help but Trumpcare is not on their side.
  • The consumers will pay 30% more for one year just in case they get a coverage lapse for more than two months. In this case, those who cannot pay the healthcare service will get additional cost barrier. We do not know whether it is better than the mandate or it can be even worse.
  • Since Trumpcare does not really belong to universal coverage, so the people who do not get covered by insurance will raise up as the time goes on.
  • Healthy people may not be incentivized to join the market and most of them apparently get covered from some medicare and work, while a lot of young people need to wait so that they can get coverage.
  • The employer mandate is removed by the Trumpcare bill. It may be a good thing for employees or employers who had employer plans at an expensive cost, but it may be bad for those who depend on the coverage of employer. In this case, it will become a more burden on the state to give help.
  • It is really different from Obamacare in which Trump care is just an ideological plan implementation with some allowances. For instance, if you struggle with your out of pocket cost or stuck in the Medicaid gap, then you will only have a little option, and there will be no more options for it. Perhaps, Trump’s health care plans a cheaper healthcare but there will still be some problems on the system.
  • Age-based credit is to replace tax credit as well as there will be no longer medical expansion and pocket assistance.
  • It is not enough to count on the bill in reducing state deficit unless the government performs deep cuts.
  • The idea is only taken from the Paul Ryan and the crew while the others are ignored. This idea is totally coming from the current leader and no one can give an idea to what they have made.

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