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New Version Of Obamacare Repeal Would Gut Pre-Existing Condition Guarantee

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Apparently yanking away the funds that allow millions of people to get health insurance isn’t enough for some House Republicans.

Now they also want to gut the Affordable Care Act’s protection for people with pre-existing conditions.

Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) on Tuesday formally unveiled an amendment to the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal Obamacare that Republicans tried to get through the House last month. The amendment, which HuffPost’s Matt Fuller first reported last week, is the product of negotiations among key Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence.

A main goal of the proposal is to win over conservative House members who last month opposed the GOP repeal bill because, in their view, it still left too much of the 2010 health care law in place. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, helped to craft the amendment. And although he has not yet declared support for it publicly, a few other conservatives have signaled they may be ready to switch from no to yes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...tm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000042
 
That is criminally inhuman. Let the poor people die. No other country in the world provides so little in healrhcare for the poor, and no country in the world spends as much on their healthcare. Go figure.
 
I'm part of an international cancer site and daily we have posts and questions from American members deeply concerned about how they'll be able to fund vital life preserving drugs. The cost of blood tests that we take for granted are prohibitively expensive too.
I confess I find the American health funding system hard to understand but it makes me even more determined to preserve our NHS and all it stands for.
 
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