If that car you are driving is like the individual market for health insurance created by the ACA for people without employer-based coverage, Medicare, or Medicaid, then the offer to help fix your radio is like the Senate’s “discussion draft” of a health care bill. People without employer-based coverage or eligibility for government health care programs are precisely the people the ACA was supposed to help. What does the Senate “discussion draft” bill do that might affect this group of people? The bill will repeal some taxes that did nothing but increase premiums – for example, the health insurance tax, the prescription drug tax, and medical device tax (which was suspended anyway, but would be permanently repealed). Repealing them might reduce premiums by 1 to 5 percent, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the ACA increases.

Source: Forbes June 23, 2017 23:03 UTC