Bill also guts coverage for preexisting conditions, allows insurers to charge older Americans up to 5 times more
A new report from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) reveals that the latest version of the Republican’s toxic health care agenda, Graham-Cassidy-Heller, would slash funding for Medicaid in Missouri by $3.4 billion — spiking costs and jeopardizing coverage for hardworking Missourians. The CBPP also found that the GOP’s bill would gut coverage for pre-existing conditions, and The Kaiser Family Foundation found it would allow insurers to charge older Americans up to 5 times more.
“This report confirms that the Republicans’ latest health care plan would be as expensive and horrific for Missourians as their previous proposals: slashing Missouri’s Medicaid and imposing an age tax on older Americans while spiking costs and stripping away coverage for pre-existing conditions,” said David Bergstein of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “The GOP health care agenda is despised by voters of every political persuasion, and if they continue pushing forward with this toxic bill voters will hold Republican Senate candidates like Josh Hawley, Marsha Haefner, Tony Monetti, Austin Petersen, and Paul Curtman accountable in 2018.”
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