Gov. Malloy: AHCA a ‘Death Sentence’ for Hundreds of Thousands of Americans

RUSH EXCERPT:

MALLOY: "whether you have one carrier or ten carriers, the reality is what’s driving cost is what does it cost to provide the services? Not what the insurance companies are charging, it’s what hospitals are charging and doctors are charging and therapist rz charging, and what does it cost to treat someone for opioid addiction, for instance, which goes out the window. Immediately in 2019 — one of the stories about Republicans and ObamaCare is they said you can’t trust the federal government. That 90% reimbursement will go away. You know what they just did yesterday? They cut the 90% reimbursement after 2019 to a 50% reimbursement. In a very short order, this will cost Connecticut about a billion dollars or more a year, and that’s if we were going to maintain coverage, and that’s conservative. What they’re really doing is what they’re betting on is that states will have to withdraw from this program because they did what they said Democrats would do, they cut the subsidy. And the subsidy is what’s keeping people alive. It’s getting people treatment. It’s getting people off of heroin in my state as we speak. What this is is a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of Americans who are part of that 24 million people who will lose coverage."