We’re doomed.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please
those interviews are not flattering. also this:
Chuck Grassley
Well, they can’t even file. They have to check the rates real high if they don’t know what the government policy is. And so the certainty is that passing a bill gives the health insurance companies certainty.
Jeff Stein
Wouldn’t not passing a bill also do that?
Chuck Grassley
No, it … well, yeah — it gives them certainty that you’ll have a lot higher rates than if you pass the bill.
Jeff Stein
So you’re saying [the bill] will lower the rates?
Chuck Grassley
Um, if you’re talking about lowering the rates from now down, no. The rates could be way up here. [Points to sky] And if they — if we get a bill passed, it maybe wouldn’t go up or would go up a heck of a lot less than they would without a bill.