The extra red tape required for the medical frailty exemption will greatly increase coverage loss from #Medicaid work requirements. Even before the rule, CBO estimated that 5.3 million people would lose their coverage and become uninsured. tinyurl.com/urbvk466
Make no mistake: directly funding CSRs is a major cut to the #ACA marketplace. And it comes on top of huge premium hikes and coverage losses for millions of ppl due to the Republican reconciliation bill and marketplace rule changes. tinyurl.com/ycyypjrc
Enrollees in the highest income group would tend to see lower premiums, but they are greatly outnumbered by enrollees with moderate incomes who would face higher premiums.
CSRs help marketplace enrollees with lower incomes pay for deductibles and other cost sharing. Insurers are required to offer CSRs, and they indirectly recover this additional expense from the fed govt through higher premium tax credits.
Directly funding CSRs would reduce those tax credits for millions of ppl with moderate incomes, who would then face higher out-of-pocket premiums.
Directly funding cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), as Republicans are apparently considering, would INCREASE out-of-pocket premiums for millions of #ACA marketplace enrollees, cut funding by tens of billions of $, and leave hundreds of thousands of ppl uninsured.