cspan. Health care Legislation Markup--It's 2 a.m., Obamacare is getting repealed, and your Congress

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Dan Diamond‏Verified account @ddiamond 3h3 hours ago

It's 2 a.m., Obamacare is getting repealed, and your Congress has the giggles.

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1. Seriously, I just turned on cspan and GOP has been up all night repealing ObamaCare.

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2. Cpan is LIVE--has been all night

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3. Comm. is voting to KEEP the age discrimination to set premiums *a Ryan priority

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5. Repug plan would allow insurers to begin charging older individuals much more than younger

NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 15h15 hours ago

“Is this health care, or is this a tax cut bill?” one Democrat asked as two key House committees got to work

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NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 16h16 hours ago

The American Medical Association has come out against the Republicans' health care bill
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Health Groups Denounce G.O.P. Bill as Its Backers Scramble

By ABBY GOODNOUGH, ROBERT PEAR and THOMAS KAPLANMARCH 8, 2017
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Representative Kevin Brady, center, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, arrived for the drafting of a new health care plan on Wednesday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

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WASHINGTON — Influential groups representing hospitals and nurses came out on Wednesday against a Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, joining doctors and the retirees’ lobby to warn that it would lead to a rise in the uninsured.

In a letter to lawmakers, major hospital groups wrote, “As organizations that take care of every individual who walks through our doors, both due to our mission and our obligations under federal law, we are committed to ensuring health care coverage is available and affordable for all.”

The groups, including the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Catholic Health Association of the United States and the Children’s Hospital Association, said they could not support the bill “as currently written.”

The hospitals and the American Nurses Association joined the American Medical Association and AARP, which rejected the bill on Tuesday.
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House Republicans have been left scrambling to marshal support from businesses and other interests that stand to benefit from lower taxes if the bill passes. Insurers are on the fence, and other powerful forces like pharmaceutical companies remain largely on the sidelines.

Squeezed between wary health care providers and angry conservatives who believe that the bill leaves too much of the Affordable Care Act in place, the Republican leadership and President Trump appear to be facing an uphill climb.

But the White House appears increasingly confident about the prospects for a health care overhaul to pass in the House. In a meeting with conservative leaders in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he anticipated the most trouble in the Senate, where moderate and conservative lawmakers are opposing the plan for different reasons. He said he was prepared to pressure holdout senators by holding the kind of stadium-style rallies he led during his presidential campaign.

The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, said Republicans were “going through the inevitable growing pains of being an opposition party to becoming a governing party.”............................





This couple is worried about tax credits under the G.O.P. plan: "What they’re talking about is unaffordable for me." http://nyti.ms/2lEAzHV
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One 55-year-old woman said she voted for Trump over health insurance costs: “I thought he would make it better.” http://nyti.ms/2lZ2Lk8
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Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say

By ABBY GOODNOUGH and REED ABELSONMARCH 7, 2017





Martha Brawley of Monroe, N.C., would get $5,188 less in aid to help pay for health insurance premiums under the Republican proposal than she gets under the Affordable Care Act. Credit Logan R. Cyrus for The New York Times



WASHINGTON — Millions of people who get private health coverage through the Affordable Care Act would be at risk of losing it under the replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans, analysts said Tuesday, with Americans in their 50s and 60s especially likely to find coverage unaffordable.

Starting in 2020, the plan would do away with the current system of providing premium subsidies based on people’s income and the cost of insurance where they live. Instead, it would provide tax credits of $2,000 to $4,000 per year based on their age.

But the credits would not cover nearly as much of the cost of premiums as the current subsidies do, at least for the type of comprehensive coverage that the Affordable Care Act requires, analysts said. For many people, that could mean the difference between keeping coverage under the new system and having to give it up.

“The central issue is the tax credits are not going to be sufficient,” said Dr. J. Mario Molina, the chief executive of Molina Healthcare, an insurer that offers coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces in California, Florida and several other states.
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Martha Brawley of Monroe, N.C., said she voted for President Trump in the hope he could make insurance more affordable. But on Tuesday, Ms. Brawley, 55, was feeling increasingly nervous based on what she had heard about the new plan from television news reports. She pays about $260 per month for a Blue Cross plan and receives a subsidy of $724 per month to cover the rest of her premium. Under the House plan, she would receive $3,500 a year in tax credits — $5,188 less than she gets under the Affordable Care Act.

“I’m scared, I’ll tell you that right now, to think about not having insurance at my age,” said Ms. Brawley, who underwent a liver biopsy on Monday after her doctor found that she has an autoimmune liver disease. “If I didn’t have insurance, these doctors wouldn’t see me.”.................................







NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 18h18 hours ago

The GOP tax credits are the same no matter where you live. This may hurt those in places with high coverage costs.
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NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 18h18 hours ago

The Republican plan would allow insurers to begin charging older individuals much more than younger individuals
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NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 18h18 hours ago

Americans in their 50s and 60s are especially likely to find their coverage becoming unaffordable, analysts say
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NYT Health‏ @NYTHealth 18h18 hours ago

Millions of people who get insurance through Obamacare could be at risk of losing it under House G.O.P. legislation

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4. K&R for you rivers!

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6. but didn't dumbass trump say...

we will love it!

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7. He was referencing

his billionaire buddies!

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8. Tee hee hee.

Repugs long for the days when we had a yearly body count in the US equivalent to 11,000 benghazis, due to Americans not being able to get medical care. The thought of returning to those glory days tickles them pink.

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9. It's just hilarious the number of people who will die because of this.

WTF is wrong with these people?