Tens of millions of Americans who previously had health insurance through their employer are now out of work. Some of them will qualify for Medicaid, but some won’t, and the application process will take time even in the best case scenario. Medical providers and the health insurance companies are suffering massive losses as a result. What happens next?
This is a state of affairs that supports the arguments for M4A and is hugely embarrassing for the GOP. If you’re Trump or McConnell, what do you do? Continue to support the elimination of the Obamacare exchanges at a time when huge numbers of people can no longer get insurance through their employer? That doesn’t exactly sound like a vote winner in November, particularly in the middle of a pandemic. Or do you, as the health insurance companies are requesting, hugely increase subsidies for providers, COBRA, and the exchanges, knowing that to do so would be a complete and humiliating reversal of position?
This is the land of no good options. Poor little guys.