Republicans are determined to destroy the health safety net whether or not their latest effort pass

[still_one]

Political resistance mounted to the House Republican leadership’s Obamacare repeal legislation Tuesday, with 12 Republican senators criticizing elements of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan as too draconian—especially the proposal’s cuts affecting Medicaid, which covers the poor, children and senior long-term care.

Meanwhile, progressive economists and others digging into the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the House bill found even more dire predictions that were obscured by Monday’s stunning announcement that the bill, if passed as currently written, would lead to upwards of 24 million people losing coverage within a decade. (The CBO estimated 14 million would lose coverage next year via individuals losing subsidies, and another 10 million would lose their coverage by 2026 due to cutbacks in state-run Medicaid programs. Politico reported Tuesday that the White House’s internal estimate was 26 million.)

Of particular interest to the economists was an unexplained footnote in the CBO report on page 33, predicting Social Security would pay out $3 billion less in the next 10 years if the House bill becomes law. While there was debate about whether the law’s passage would mean employees might see higher wages but stingier benefits—meaning more Social Security taxes would be generated—their interpretation was millions of people would be forced to keep working and postpone taking Social Security because they’d need the money for escalating medical costs.

There were similarly stark second-day analyses, such as the bill’s impact on veterans. While most military veterans are covered by Veterans Administration health care, not all of them are—just as their family members aren’t—meaning another key constituency, military families, would be hurt by an Obamacare repeal.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/republicans-are-determined-to-destroy-the-health-safety-net-whether-or-not-their-latest-effort-passes/

[Cha]

1. Oh yeah.. why would they give up when they wasted so

much taxpayers' money trying to Repeal Obamacare for 6 years?

[vlyons]

2. Yes and No. It's not so much that they hate socialized safety net

as it is that they resent paying taxes that benefit others. Healthcare, social security, affordable housing, foreign policy, science programs, environmental regulations, and everything else that makes life better, cleaner, safer costs money paid with taxes. Yes some of them are Ayn Rander ideologues, who believe in the "Virtue of Selfishness," but mostly they just want to lower taxes. They want to privatize everything that isn't nailed down. They care only for themselves and their immediate family.

[eShirl]

3. passive eugenics, imho