How will the GOP health care plan affect Alabamians?

[yallerdawg]

4.86 million residents; 62% of voters supported the man who promised "better and cheaper."

Source: al.com, by Amy Yurkanin

Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives approved an alternative to Obamacare that could bring big changes to more than 150,000 people in Alabama who buy insurance on the federally-run exchange.

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While it is too early to speculate about what Alabama might do, the state has a history of opposing Obamacare regulations and a high number of people with preexisting conditions.

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A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation study found nearly 1 million people in Alabama with preexisting health conditions. The state has one of the highest rates of preexisting conditions in the country, according to the analysis.

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Alabama's high-risk pool covered only 389 people in 2012, according to an article in the Mobile Press-Register. Many of the programs struggled with high costs and low enrollment and folded when Obamacare required insurance companies to cover all customers regardless of health status.

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Read it all at: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/how_will_the_gop_health_care_p.html#incart_std

[Historic NY]

1. Buy life insurance.

[angstlessk]

2. They, too, might find a way to reneg on 'pre-existing' conditions?