Sen. Mike Braun: GOP Healthcare Plan Must Embrace ‘Transparency and Competition’
Sen. Mike Braun says now is the time for Republicans to embrace a healthcare strategy that emphasizes “transparency and competition.”
Sen. Mike Braun says now is the time for Republicans to embrace a healthcare strategy that emphasizes “transparency and competition.”
A newly released video reveals that health insurance companies, seeking to keep their costs down, now can include assisted suicide as a viable option for the terminally ill when these patients live in a state that has legalized assisted suicide.
Even as a GOP-led Congress irons out its own plans for the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, President Donald Trump could begin the demise of Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law on the very first day of his presidency.
UnitedHealth, one of the nation’s largest insurers, announced Tuesday that they expect to lose nearly a billion dollars on plans sold on the Obamacare health exchanges.
Two Wisconsin Democrats are proposing a bill that would force insurance companies to give consumers 60 days’ notice before a rate increase could be implemented and also force the state Office of the Commissioner of Insurance to hold public hearings if the companies wanted to raise rates over 10%.
“Obamacare itself destroys true insurance and places additional crushing burdens on those who provide actual care,” said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of AAPS, in a press release. “This can’t be fixed by forcing taxpayers to pay a chunk of some people’s unaffordable premiums. What the Court has done is to further undermine the rule of law.”