Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock told reporters that they’ve met several times with Joe Manchin over the last week to discuss compromises. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesDemocrats are coalescing around a plan to offer a few years of subsidized private insurance to uninsured people with lower incomes in states that refused to expand Medicaid.
“The way you would cover the Medicaid gap in states that don’t want to expand is by increasing the subsidies and changing the eligibility so that people who can’t get Medicaid in Texas or South Carolina can get it on the [Obamacare] exchanges,” House Budget Chair John Yarmuth told reporters Tuesday morning.
“Anything that delivers care at a high standard of quality and affordability of care that meets my constituents’ needs, I’m willing to consider,” he said. “The bottom line is that there are folks who are suffering or dying needlessly who need health care.” Ossoff, Warnock and others also argued that the temporary expansion now under debate — which would run until 2025 — is better than nothing, while others say they’re scared a future GOP Congress would refuse to extend the program, and their low-income constituents would lose coverage.
How far we've come from a public option. No mention of it since the campaign. Now we can't even expand Medicare to cover basics like dental and eyecare, and get some temporary private insurance giveaway for the poor. Don't blame progressives if the midterms are a disaster.
JB Smoove is providing health care now?
Let me guess....Red states right?
Providing health care saves $$