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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBottom line: the ACHA is a TRILLION Dollar cut to health programs.
To Medicaid, to Medicare, to insurance on the state exchanges.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-bill_us_59089a06e4b0bb2d0871e21b
May 2, 2017
Republicans are trying very hard to disguise what the American Health Care Act would actually do.
They keep insisting their bill, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act, would lower premiums and improve access to quality, affordable care, as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) put it last month.
Any time analysts point out the ways in which those promises are misleading or false ― or cite the Congressional Budget Office prediction that the AHCA would leave about 24 million people without health insurance ― Republicans insist that a combination of new tax credits, state innovation, and so-called high-risk pools will take care of people better than the current system does.
This is not true. And perhaps the clearest evidence is in those CBO numbers.
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All told, it works out to about $1 trillion less in federal spending on health care.
golfguru
(4,987 posts)that AHCA will lower healthcare premiums. I will have to see it happen before I can believe it.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Once it happens, every person in need of healthcare are already screwed!
golfguru
(4,987 posts)pnwmom
(108,973 posts)the tax on the 1% that was dedicated to Medicare.
Bengus81
(6,930 posts)Those clowns will find out real soon what UNaffordable health care really is. You can have pre-existing coverage under Trumps plan. Just pony up $3,000 or $4,000 per month and we'll fix you right up!!
Can't afford that premium?? Should have worked harder and/or not got sick by your crummy lifestyle.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Premiums will skyrocket and most companies will either dump coverage completely or force employees to pay 100 percent of it.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"The rich get richer, the poor fucking eat shit and die!"
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Rural hospitals will be hurt; ERs will close. Republicans are not only heartless, they are economic morons.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)Squinch
(50,934 posts)And of course that we can call their piece of shit legislation "the ACHE"
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)kentuck
(111,069 posts)It is the insurance companies.