WASHINGTON – Sen. Lamar Alexander sees the Republican healthcare plan
released this week as a good start toward repealing and replacing the
reforms enacted under former President Barack Obama, but he’s not yet
ready to commit to voting for the package.
“Let’s wait to see what comes out of the House,” which is currently reviewing the legislation, the Tennessee Republican said. .... Alexander predicted the GOP plan would bring stability and more choices
to the insurance market in Tennessee, where Insurance Commissioner Julie
Mix McPeak has warned that the exodus of insurers has left the
Obamacare exchange, or market, near collapse.
....
Alexander said one of the things he likes most about the GOP plan is
that it would allow 40,000 residents in the Knoxville area who buy their
health insurance on the Obamacare exchange to use their subsidies to
purchase insurance on the open market. Without that provision, they will
be unable to buy a policy because the insurance giant Humana, the sole
provider on the federal exchange in Knoxville, has said it will exit the
market in 2018.
That “would be like having a bus ticket in a town
with no buses running,” Alexander said. “These are some of the most
vulnerable people in our state who need help buying insurance, and they
literally won’t have any insurance to buy unless Congress acts.” (link)
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