Depends on what your state does?

In Louisiana, we expanded Medicaid to the tune of 450,000 people. Which Cassidy has bragged about helping.

So that lowered block grant, tied to lower inflation metrics, will likely largely go to keeping the thing afloat by funding it with increased cuts to make up the difference.

If you have individual market coverage, not much a chance Bel Edwards decides to take a knife to poor and older citizens by applying for many waivers.

Are you going to get the same insurance coverage at a cheaper rate? Not likely given the above. Nothing in this bill does anything to attack core cost drivers like healthcare price inflation, drug costs, uncompensated care(harms that actually), and insurance pricing would only really be affected by waivers such as that age rating which would in theory give younger people slightly cheaper insurance(though still far too expensive for must I would bet). Though eliminating the mandate has a good chance of spinning us back into pre-ACA days where healthy people just went without insurance and the risk pools get much more risky.

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Posted by BamaAtl

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Member since Dec 2009

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Posted on 9/21/17 at 7:24 pm to bonhoeffer45

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In Louisiana, we expanded Medicaid to the tune of 450,000 people. Which Cassidy has bragged about helping.

So that lowered block grant, tied to lower inflation metrics, will likely largely go to keeping the thing afloat by funding it with increased cuts to make up the difference.

Louisiana specifically gets fricked twice. The Cassidy funding formula takes the Medicaid numbers from before Louisiana expanded Medicaid, but takes the money allocation that fricks over expansion states from after Louisiana expanded.

So you get less money for fewer people than even the formula says you should, because he picked the wrong year.

But Republicans will re-elect him, because they're ignorant sheep.