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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders: Trump has to rescue Obamacare or admit hes a liar
Bernie Sanders: Trump has to rescue Obamacare or admit hes a liarBernie Sanders
Washington Post
It didnt take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle Americas health-care system. Their long-standing goal, consistent with their right-wing ideology, is to take away health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, privatize Medicare, make massive cuts to Medicaid and defund Planned Parenthood. At the same time, in the midst of grotesque and growing income and wealth inequality, theyre preparing to allow pharmaceutical companies to increase drug prices and to hand out obscene tax breaks for the top one-tenth of 1 percent.
Let me be absolutely clear: The impact of repealing large pieces of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans are planning to put on Donald Trumps desk on his first day in the White House, would be devastating. If Republicans get their way, 30 million Americans, 82 percent of whom are from working families, will lose their health insurance. With Medicare privatized, seniors will see their premiums increase by as much as 50 percent while their benefits are cut and funding for nursing-home care dries up. Underfunded hospitals around the country, particularly in rural areas, could be forced to close their doors, leaving millions of Americans with nowhere to turn for critical medical care. Patient protections, like preventing insurance companies from denying coverage because of a preexisting condition, removing the cap on maximum health-care benefits, allowing children to stay on their parents health insurance plans until age 26 and preventing discrimination by insurers, would be eliminated.
Trump now has a choice: He can tell the American people that these campaign promises were lies and that he never intended to keep them. Or (and I hope this is the case) he can instruct his Republican colleagues to end their efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and inform them that if they dont, he will veto any bills that cut those life-and-death programs.
Fifteen years ago, Donald Trump said he was for universal health care. I hope he still is. The truth is we shouldnt be debating whether to take health care away from 30 million Americans. We should be finding ways to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right. This is the conversation American policymakers need to be having right now. And were not going to let Trump or Congress forget it.
Let me be absolutely clear: The impact of repealing large pieces of the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans are planning to put on Donald Trumps desk on his first day in the White House, would be devastating. If Republicans get their way, 30 million Americans, 82 percent of whom are from working families, will lose their health insurance. With Medicare privatized, seniors will see their premiums increase by as much as 50 percent while their benefits are cut and funding for nursing-home care dries up. Underfunded hospitals around the country, particularly in rural areas, could be forced to close their doors, leaving millions of Americans with nowhere to turn for critical medical care. Patient protections, like preventing insurance companies from denying coverage because of a preexisting condition, removing the cap on maximum health-care benefits, allowing children to stay on their parents health insurance plans until age 26 and preventing discrimination by insurers, would be eliminated.
Trump now has a choice: He can tell the American people that these campaign promises were lies and that he never intended to keep them. Or (and I hope this is the case) he can instruct his Republican colleagues to end their efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and inform them that if they dont, he will veto any bills that cut those life-and-death programs.
Fifteen years ago, Donald Trump said he was for universal health care. I hope he still is. The truth is we shouldnt be debating whether to take health care away from 30 million Americans. We should be finding ways to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a right. This is the conversation American policymakers need to be having right now. And were not going to let Trump or Congress forget it.
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Bernie Sanders: Trump has to rescue Obamacare or admit hes a liar (Original Post)
portlander23
Jan 2017
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TexasProgresive
(12,155 posts)1. Go Bernie burn him up with his own promises.
MineralMan
(146,255 posts)2. iDJiT doesn't seem particularly concerned about breaking
promises. I doubt he can even remember them. He can't remember mocking a disabled man, even.
Good for Bernie for calling him out on this, though.