I haven’t read all of the two bills yet or pieced them together with other law to know exactly what’s going on, but I’ll give you the high-level overview of what I’ve gleaned from my first skim through it. The nuts and bolts: Medicaid expansion is gone, and non-expanding states will get some extra bucks as…
Bottom line: Repeal the mandate and preserve the pre-existing condition exclusion and the individual markets freeze. Forget inflation, they just won’t write this coverage. It’s Obama’s fault.