Thursday, March 23, 2017

There will be no healtcare left in US with Trumpcare


On Thursday night, negotiations between the White House and the the House Freedom Caucus resulted in the announcement of drastic last-minute changes to the AHCA — including removing Obamacare requirements that insurance cover things like emergency services and maternity care.

The 10 “essential” benefits Obamacare introduced, which some Republicans hoped to repeal, are: ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; pregnancy, maternity, and newborn care; mental health and substance abuse services; prescription medications; rehabilitative services; laboratory services; preventative care and chronic disease management; and pediatric services. So … all of medicine, basically. [

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