Affordable Care Act (ACA) and American Health Care Act (AHCA)AC

Affordable Care Act (ACA) and American Health Care Act (AHCA)

In this simulation, users have the opportunity to weigh in on the key elements of the Affordable Care Act that the American Health Care Act proposed to repeal and replace.

Healthcare for Low Income Populations	Results
Assessing the ACA provision to expand Medicaid	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the ACA provision to help people under the Federal poverty line pay for their monthly premiums	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the ACA provision to help low income people pay out-of-pocket expenses	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the ACA provisions to establish extra taxes on upper incomes, investment income, large health insurance companies, and medical devices, as well as provisions to decrease deductions for medical expenses	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the AHCA provision to end the current Medicaid expansion by 2020	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the AHCA provision to limit what the Federal government would pay to states	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the AHCA provision to replace premium subsidies for individual insurance with a fixed tax credit	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the AHCA provision to repeal subsidies for out-of-pocket expenses and replace them with a $108 billion fund for the states to set up similar programs	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Assessing the AHCA provision to repeal ACA tax and medical-expense deduction reforms primarily devoted to offsetting the low-income health plan	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Whether to replace the ACA with AHCA provisions for low-income people	National and by Party ID	By Demographics

Mandates for Employers and Individuals	Results
Whether to repeal the ACA requirement for employers with more than 50 employees to provide health insurance	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Whether to replace the ACA individual mandate requiring individuals to have health insurance	National and by Party ID	By Demographics

Premium Rates for Older Insurees	Results
Whether to raise amount that insurance companies can charge older people as compared to younger people	National and by Party ID	By Demographics

Charging Higher Rates Based on Pre-Existing Conditions	Results
Whether to allow states to get a waiver from ACA requirements to cover all people despite pre-existing conditions and high-risk family history	National and by Party ID	By Demographics

Covering Essential Benefits	Results
Whether to allow states to get a waiver so that insurance companies would not have to cover ten “essential benefits”	National and by Party ID	By Demographics

 

Disallowing Access to Planned Parenthood	Results
Whether to prohibit Medicare patients from using government-funded health benefits in Planned Parenthood clinics	National and by Party ID	By Demographics
Passing the AHCA	Results
Whether to pass the AHCA law that repeals and replaces ACA	National and by Party ID

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