American Health Care Act (AHCA)
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Introduction
Republican repeal of Affordable Care Act.
Notes
- AMA opposes specific elements of the American Health Care Act:
- Tax credits linked to age that could be used to purchase insurance. Instead, AMA says the credits should be inversely related to income
- Rollback of Medicaid expansion. AMA cites estimates that 4-6 million covered under Medicaid could lose coverage; another 2-4 million who bought insurance through the health exchanges could also lose coverage
- Repeal of the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which supports projects like immunizations, antismoking campaigns, and child lead poisoning programs and makes up 12% of the CDC's budget.
- Limiting patients' choice of healthcare providers, specifically Planned Parenthood.[2]
- the Congressional Budget Office determined that the American Health Care Act would diminish the federal deficit by $337 billion over the next 10 years, but increase the number of uninsured Americans by 23-24 million relative to the Affordable Care Act.[3][5]
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Pear R, Kaplan T House Republicans Unveil Plan to Replace Health Law. New York Times. March 6, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/affordable-care-act-obamacare-health.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Young K, Sadoughi S, Saitz R AMA Opposes GOP's Healthcare Replacement Bill. David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief Massachusetts Medical Society http://www.jwatch.org
Gurman AW Physicians reject House ACA replacement bill. AMA News. March 8, 2017 https://wire.ama-assn.org/ama-news/physicians-reject-house-aca-replacement-bill
Madara JL AMA Letter to U.S. House of Representatives. March 7, 2017 https://www.ama-assn.org/sites/default/files/media-browser/public/washington/ama-letter-on-ahca.pdf - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Congressional Budget Office. American Health Care Act March 13, 2017. Cost Estimate https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52486
- ↑ Frieden J CBO on Trumpcare: 14 Million More Uninsured by 2018 GOP bill will reduce deficit by $119 billion over a decade. MedPage Today. May 24, 2017 https://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/repeal-and-replace/65562
Lowes R ACA Replacement Bill Will Increase Uninsured by 23 Million. Medscape - May 24, 2017. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/880570 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Congressional Budget Office H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752
- ↑ Fiedler M, Aaron HJ, Adler L, Ginsburg PB. Moving in the Wrong Direction - Health Care under the AHCA. N Engl J Med. May 31, 2017 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28562176 <Internet> http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1706848