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- There’s a stabilization fund to help states strengthen their individual health insurance markets.
- $15 billion a year in 2018 and 2019, $10 billion a year in 2020 and 2021.
- There’s also a long-term state innovation fund, $62 billion over eight years, to help high-cost and low-income people buy health insurance.
- The ACA tax credits continue in 2018 and 2019.
- After that, they’d only be available for people with incomes up to 350 percent of the poverty line.
- The “actuarial value” — the amount of the medical costs that insurance would have to cover — would be lowered to 58 percent, down from 70 percent for the ACA’s benchmark plans. That’s likely to reduce the value of the tax credits.
- All ACA taxes would be repealed except for the “Cadillac tax” for generous plans, which would be delayed.
- Medicaid spending growth rate under per capita caps would be same as House bill until 2025. Then it switches to the general inflation rate, which is lower than House bill.
- States would be able to impose work requirements for people on Medicaid, except for the elderly, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
- Children with complex medical needs would be exempt from the per capita caps.
HENRY KOTULA 