Mitch McConnells Skinny Repeal Could Still Mean 15 Million Fewer With Insurance

[deminks]

Link to tweet

Don't be fooled. Focus.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Soon everything is gone, Medicare, Social Security, everything.

But yes, this is bad, but can you imagine if

wait, I am not allowed to talk about the past, thus guaranteeing we absolutely will repeat it.

[Initech]

9. It's the end of an empire and everything must go!

At low low prices!

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. That was funny, made me laugh and I needed it as I am watching

a person with cancer, partaking from great health insurance YOU and I pay for, voting to open discussion about taking it from many if not all of us.

[Wounded Bear]

2. So they can run on "we saved healthcare for 6 million people"...

[Iliyah]

3. I'll bet majority of that number are people in blue states.

That settles that. Caring for "all" Americans is not the GOPs way. Fuck them.

[frazzled]

4. Not to mention a million jobs

America could lose more than a million jobs if the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday.
That’s according to a report from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.

“This legislation could single-handedly put a big dent in health care job growth,” said Leighton Ku, the lead author of the report and the director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University.
Repealing the law, also known as Obamacare, would dramatically scale back federal funding for health care, especially Medicaid. That translates into job losses as hospitals, retirement homes and other health facilities get fewer dollars.
“We're talking about one out of every 20 health care jobs disappearing by 2026. That's a lot,” Ku said.

. . .

Job losses, however, get much less attention, despite the fact that health care has been a booming field for job growth. Even during the Great Recession, health care jobs continued to grow. A third of all jobs created in the United States in the past decade have been in health care.

According to the Labor Department, 15.7 million Americans have jobs in health care today — roughly 1 in 9 workers. And a lot of the job growth Trump has heralded so far in his tenure has also come from health care.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/25/1-million-jobs-on-the-line-as-senate-votes-on-health-care/?utm_term=.3e0f975ae1be

[B2G]

5. Unless the ACA CREATED a million jobs,

I'm not seeing how that many would be lost.

[standingtall]

7. Maybe because even before the ACA medicaid

was not a block grant system. Funding for medicaid will be cut well below Pre-ACA levels.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Plus those who still have insurance would pay through the nose

[Johonny]

8. I always assume these millions uninsured numbers are the rosy numbers.

They don't account for the obvious massive inflation to be experienced by those still insured who will likely have to drop coverage, and the obvious recession that will follow which will mean million will lose employer coverage. I have no doubt millions more will lose insurance and the GAP penalty will mean they stay uninsured. This will be a disaster that will cost trillions in the end to fix. In other words...a typical Rethug short sighted policy decision.

[deminks]

11. kick for the afternoon