The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be replaced "in a phased-in way over a period of time," not right away, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday.
"You can't just snap your fingers and go from where we are today to where we're headed," McConnell told the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation at its annual meeting. "This has to be done carefully."
Bruce Schreiner of The Associated Press paraphrases McConnell as saying: "Congress will begin work immediately next year toward repealing President Barack Obama's health-care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative," something they didn't have to do when they passed repeal bills because they knew Obama would veto them.
McConnell "insisted that some 20 million Americans who have health care through the six-year-old law will not lose coverage, though the likely upheaval in the insurance industry suggests many could," Schreiner reports.
"President-elect Donald Trump says he would like to keep major elements of the law — allowing children to remain on their parents' plans until age 26 and ensuring companies don't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. But it's unclear how a new version of the law could force insurance companies to provide the latter coverage."
One way to do that would be to keep the law's requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, an idea that many Republicans favored before Obama was elected but opposed when he pushed the law through Congress with only Democratic votes. A possible alternative would be to keep the requirement but allow younger people to buy cheaper policies with thinner coverage.
"You can't just snap your fingers and go from where we are today to where we're headed," McConnell told the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation at its annual meeting. "This has to be done carefully."
Bruce Schreiner of The Associated Press paraphrases McConnell as saying: "Congress will begin work immediately next year toward repealing President Barack Obama's health-care law but delay the changes as Republicans try to come up with an alternative," something they didn't have to do when they passed repeal bills because they knew Obama would veto them.
McConnell "insisted that some 20 million Americans who have health care through the six-year-old law will not lose coverage, though the likely upheaval in the insurance industry suggests many could," Schreiner reports.
"President-elect Donald Trump says he would like to keep major elements of the law — allowing children to remain on their parents' plans until age 26 and ensuring companies don't deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. But it's unclear how a new version of the law could force insurance companies to provide the latter coverage."
One way to do that would be to keep the law's requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, an idea that many Republicans favored before Obama was elected but opposed when he pushed the law through Congress with only Democratic votes. A possible alternative would be to keep the requirement but allow younger people to buy cheaper policies with thinner coverage.
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