Afinity Health Plan
Eryn Brown: That's built into this bill too, right? The newest version of it?
Sheila Kuehl: It is. Because the premiums themselves are not capped in any way. All the bill does is say if you're poor enough you don't have to spend more than x% o your income on insurance. After that the state will subsidize you. I think the funding mechanism is very iffy.
The other thing is there's an assumption in the budget that we'll spend more on children, where right now we're going the other way: kicking children off Healthy Families, lowering the top income level, such as it is, for people who are receiving Medical benefits, cutting out Medical Dental. You know, a lot of cuts.
Waning support
Sheila Kuehl: The doctors are against this bill. The nurses are against this bill. Several of the afinity health plan companies are against this bill. It's sort of a range of people. But the hospitals were for the bill, and indeed had told the
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