Letter: GOP plan would hurt seniors

In a letter to the Coeur d’Alene Press editor , Tom Trail, president of AARP Idaho, writes:

Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are considering a bill that would drive up health care costs by thousands of dollars a year for Americans ages 50-64. This onerous “age tax” threatens to cut people’s access to care at a time of life when it is increasingly needed.

Even worse, the American Health Care Act imposes a double whammy on older consumers who are still too young for Medicare. It not only would allow insurers to charge them five times what other people pay, it would also reduce tax credits that help many pay for the insurance they now have. More here.

If this bill gets through, the big insurance companies will have free rein to charge older Americans a lot more. In fact, up to $8,400 more per year for the same coverage you have now.