{"id":3793,"date":"2019-11-21T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senators-wyden-and-merkley-warn-against-junk-health-care-plans\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:15","slug":"senators-wyden-and-merkley-warn-against-junk-health-care-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senators-wyden-and-merkley-warn-against-junk-health-care-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Wyden and Merkley warn against JUNK HEALTH CARE PLANS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today called the Trump administration&rsquo;s promotion of junk health care plans offered on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.gov\/\">HealthCare.gov<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Oregon senators joined with 21 colleagues to request that the agencies answer for the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to promote junk plans to the American public during the Open Enrollment period for health insurance coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The letter follows reports showing that the Trump administration-operated&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.gov\/\">HealthCare.gov<\/a>&nbsp;website is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2019\/11\/20\/critics-say-junk-plans-are-being-pushed-aca-exchanges\/\">dirigir a los consumidores durante el per\u00edodo de inscripci\u00f3n abierta en curso a planes no deseados<\/a>&nbsp;a trav\u00e9s de intermediarios externos, con poca o ninguna informaci\u00f3n sobre la falta de cobertura proporcionada por estos llamados planes \u201ca corto plazo\u201d. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Los senadores escribieron,&nbsp;<span>\u201cEstamos extremadamente preocupados de que la mayor disponibilidad de planes no deseados y la falta de supervisi\u00f3n por parte de los CMS hagan que los consumidores que creen que est\u00e1n comprando planes de salud que cumplen con ACA se inscriban sin darse cuenta en una cobertura de planes no deseados que es menos completa y podr\u00eda exponerlos a una mayor gastos de bolsillo. Los estadounidenses que compran estos planes basura corren el riesgo de que se les niegue la cobertura por condiciones preexistentes y queden vulnerables a brechas inesperadas en la cobertura y facturas m\u00e9dicas masivas en el caso de emergencias de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Los senadores se\u00f1alan la disposici\u00f3n de la ACA que proh\u00edbe que el intercambio de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica ofrezca planes que no cumplan con los est\u00e1ndares de cobertura de la ACA y escriben:&nbsp;<span>&ldquo;It is also unclear what statutory authority CMS relies upon to authorize the re-direction of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.gov\/\">HealthCare.gov<\/a>&nbsp;customers toward third-party broker entities that sell ACA-compliant coverage and junk plan coverage on the same platforms.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Los senadores enfatizaron que los planes basura nunca tuvieron la intenci\u00f3n de ser una alternativa a la cobertura m\u00e9dica integral y que plantean riesgos peligrosos para los consumidores. Los esfuerzos persistentes de la administraci\u00f3n para expandir los planes basura, que incluyen extender la duraci\u00f3n de 90 d\u00edas a 364 d\u00edas y alentar a los estados a solicitar exenciones de la ACA que permitir\u00edan que los cr\u00e9ditos fiscales para las primas de la ACA se usen para subsidiar la cobertura del plan basura, corren el riesgo de confundir a los estadounidenses en pensando que estos planes ofrecen la misma cobertura que aquellos que cumplen con los est\u00e1ndares de la ACA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wyden y Merkley&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaheen.senate.gov\/news\/press\/on-senate-floor-shaheen-urges-support-for-resolution-blocking-trump-admins-expansion-of-junk-health-insurance-plans-admonishes-partisan-lawsuit-to-strike-down-aca\">han unido esfuerzos en el Congreso<\/a>&nbsp;para bloquear la expansi\u00f3n de planes basura por parte de la administraci\u00f3n, lo que aumentar\u00eda los costos para millones de estadounidenses. han copatrocinado el&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaheen.senate.gov\/news\/press\/senators-shaheen-hassan-cosponsor-legislation-to-overturn-president-trumps-expansion-of-junk-health-insurance-plans\">Ley sin planes basura<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;y&nbsp;<em>el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaheen.senate.gov\/news\/press\/shaheen-introduces-legislation-to-protect-americans-with-pre-existing-conditions\">Ley de Protecci\u00f3n de Estadounidenses con Condiciones Preexistentes<\/a><\/em>, legislaci\u00f3n que anular\u00eda la expansi\u00f3n de Trump de los planes basura que no tienen que proteger la cobertura de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica para los estadounidenses con condiciones preexistentes. Wyden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonWyden\/status\/1197554934671171584\">habl\u00f3 en el piso a principios de esta semana<\/a>&nbsp;sobre los ataques republicanos a ACA, especialmente la amenaza a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica de calidad que plantean los planes basura.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today called the Trump administration&rsquo;s promotion of junk health care plans offered on&nbsp;HealthCare.gov.&nbsp; In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Oregon senators joined with 21 colleagues to request that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senators Wyden and Merkley warn against JUNK HEALTH CARE PLANS\u2026 - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senators-wyden-and-merkley-warn-against-junk-health-care-plans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senators Wyden and Merkley warn against JUNK HEALTH CARE PLANS\u2026 - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today called the Trump administration&rsquo;s promotion of junk health care plans offered on&nbsp;HealthCare.gov.&nbsp; 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