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Fozzledick

(3,860 posts)
Mon Mar 13, 2017, 10:02 PM Mar 2017

The parts left out of the CBO report.

How many thousands of Americans will actually DIE due to lack of medical care after losing insurance coverage? The estimates I've seen are in the range of 40,000 to 45,000 a year but the CBO report makes no mention of them.

How many will be forced into bankruptcy after being forced to spend their life savings for uncovered care. How many of them will lose their homes?

How many millions of Americans will suffer preventable pain and disability because they won't be able to afford routine care for treatable conditions?

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The parts left out of the CBO report. (Original Post) Fozzledick Mar 2017 OP
K&R n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #1
When 46 million or so were uninsured in 2009, the Harvard report Jarqui Mar 2017 #2
Can We Call This.... LovingA2andMI Mar 2017 #3
A panel kind of suggested that at least the individual got reviewed Jarqui Mar 2017 #4

Jarqui

(10,131 posts)
2. When 46 million or so were uninsured in 2009, the Harvard report
Mon Mar 13, 2017, 10:09 PM
Mar 2017

estimated about 45,000 die per year without healthcare
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

So it's about 1,000 people dying per year for every million without healthcare.

Between now and 2026, that approximately works out to Paul Ryan's bill killing about 186,000 Americans due to them undercutting the ACA (Obamacare).

We spent trillions to get the terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11 but we're supposed to look the other way when the equivalent to domestic terrorists kill 186,000 less fortunate Americans (who won't make the evening news) to line the pockets of the rich pricks who have been buying/hacking/gerrymandering the US elections.

Jarqui

(10,131 posts)
4. A panel kind of suggested that at least the individual got reviewed
Mon Mar 13, 2017, 10:29 PM
Mar 2017

and a thumbs up or down determined their fate.

This is a cattle drive to round up 186,000 poor souls at random, who have little idea their destiny is to be a mere statistic of Ryan's sick "healthcare" debacle while lining the pockets of the super rich who keep people like Ryan in power.

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