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Trumps rhetoric about health care is crashing up against reality
03/19/2017 09:04 am ET | Updated 3 hours ago
President Trump is conducting his presidency like a reality TV show, with all the trappings. But in real life, Trumps actionshis travel ban, now-debunked wiretapping claims and skinny budget proposalhave harmful consequences for our democracy and for peoples lives, including many of the people who voted for him.
Nowhere is that clearer than in health care. Trumps rhetoric about health care is crashing up against reality. He promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a plan that would cost less and cover more people. He bragged there would be no cuts to Medicare or Medicaid during his presidency. And he tweeted that the Republican healthcare plan will result in a beautiful picture. But the bill released last week is a bleak betrayal of those promises.
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With so many losers under this bill, who wins? The wealthy, big time. Ryan and Trump are racing to repeal the taxes on the wealthy that, under the ACA, subsidized the cost of health insurance for those who couldnt afford it. The GOP bill would lavish about $600 billion of tax cuts on the wealthy. The 400 richest Americans would get about $7 million each. In fact, the only tax their plan retains from the ACA is the mis-nicknamed Cadillac taxa tax on middle-class Americans who obtain health insurance through their employers.
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The ACA should be improved, not eliminated. Lives literally depend on it. A new analysis estimates that, if the Republican health proposal becomes law, approximately 17,000 people could die in 2018 who otherwise would have lived. By 2026, the number of people who suffer preventable deaths could grow to 29,000 in that year alone. Those stark numbers represent real peoplemothers, babies, breadwinners and best friends.
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Repeat: By 2026, the number of people who suffer preventable deaths could grow to 29,000 in that year alone. Those stark numbers represent real peoplemothers, babies, breadwinners and best friends.
Cold, cruel, calculating this is the GOP where the only thing that matters is...400 richest Americans would get about $7 million each. Betrayal.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies.
sheshe2
(83,327 posts)It looks like they will be controlling everything soon...RESIST!