re: #620 OldLineTexan

Media Matters says the bill does not outlaw private health insurance and that “conservative media” are LIARS [ed. note: not a direct quote].

However, it is not all all clear to me that it does not outlaw NEW health insurance plans, i.e. remove the non-Federal marketplace from the picture so that Obamacare may roam freely as a brontosaurus in a YEC museum.

As far as I can tell, pre-existing insurance plans are all grandfathered in, no changes to them (that is for certain)— but the issue is about new individual plans. New plans have to be part of the Health Insurance Exchange:

“According to the House Ways and Means Committee’s summary of the bill, the Health Insurance Exchange “creates a transparent and functional marketplace for individuals and small employers to comparison shop among private and public insurers.”

So, the changes would affect the purchase of new individual insurance plans, where private insurers would have to be part of this HIE.