Mr. Ryan and Mr. Trump have suggested that they are done with health care for the time being — no new bill or repeal vote is forthcoming, Mr. Ryan said —
but Ms. Hunter, the Texas salon owner, thinks they will be forced back into the fray.
They need to focus on the real health care problem: cost.”
For Thomas E. Secor, who runs the small manufacturing business Durable Corporation in Norwalk, Ohio, every annual renewal
of his company’s health insurance plan since the Affordable Care Act took effect has felt like spinning a roulette wheel.
Durable Corporation’s plan, which Mr. Secor said had worked well for the company’s 37 employees, omits some benefits
that are required to meet the health law’s minimum coverage standards.
“We have an insurance policy that would cover maternity and substance abuse treatment for my 11-year-old daughter but doesn’t cover my wife’s M. S.
drugs,” Mr. Hudak said.
So far, the plan has been grandfathered in, allowing Durable to keep it — but if
that protection ends, Mr. Secor does not know if his company can afford to continue offering insurance, he said.
