House Republicans Would Reverse ACA Coverage Gains and Radically Overhaul Medicaid

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House Republicans Would Reverse ACA Coverage Gains and Radically Overhaul Medicaid, New Talking Points Confirm
February 17, 2017 by Jacob Leibenluft Edwin Park Judith Solomon and Aviva Aron-Dine

House Republican leaders yesterday released a set of talking points they are attempting to position as their substitute for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[1] But the document reveals that House Republicans still seek to repeal the ACA without putting forward a real replacement plan. They also intend to fast track a proposal to radically overhaul Medicaid, putting coverage for children, seniors, and people with disabilities at risk, in addition to ending the ACA’s Medicaid expansion for low-income adults.

The document makes clear that the starting point for any House Republican bill is the “repeal and delay” legislation that President Obama vetoed last year. By the end of a decade, that bill would result in 32 million people losing coverage and individual market premiums doubling, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.[2] The provisions that yesterday’s outline suggests House Republicans will add fall far short of repairing that damage; in the case of Medicaid, they would cause additional harm. And taken together, their approach would result in a significant transfer of resources from low- and middle-income families to those at the top.

Yesterday’s document reveals that House Republicans plan to use ACA repeal as a vehicle for their longstanding proposals to radically restructure and cut Medicaid financing and coverage by converting the program to a per capita cap or a block grant.

http://www.cbpp.org/research/health/house-republicans-would-reverse-aca-coverage-gains-and-radically-overhaul-medicaid

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1. They've already started

Major Blow to Obamacare Mandate: IRS Won't Reject Tax Returns That Don't Answer Health Insurance Question
The tax agency has stopped requiring individual filers to indicate whether they maintained health coverage or paid the mandate penalty as required under the law

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/14/irs-blow-to-obamacare-individual-mandate

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2. There are going to be a lot of angry people,

when the millions of lower income earners discover that they can no longer afford healthcare. The Republicans are going to have a healthcare program with no goal except to have a healthcare program for the sake of having one, put together in an Ideological straight jacket.

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3. It will be too late if they get repeal to happen

and the repigs will never take responsibility for the thousands of deaths that will result.

Our only chance is to protest now and make sure all dems in congress are on the same page.