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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumpcares back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sick
Trumpcares back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sickJust when you thought your health care was safe...
IAN MILLHISER SEP 17, 2017, 12:41 PM
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The bill Schumer refers to is a proposal by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), which couples steep cuts to federal health care spending with an overhaul of much of the nations health care system. According to an analysis shared by Andy Slavitt, who ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama, an estimated 32 million people could lose health coverage by the end of the decade if Graham-Cassidy becomes law.
At the core of Graham-Cassidy are provisions that repeal Obamacare tax credits for middle-income individuals, certain other subsidies for lower-income Americans, and the laws Medicaid expansion. It replaces all of these provisions with a block grant that is smaller than the total amount of the money it takes away. The block grant then expires in 2027, causing health care spending to fall off a cliff.
https://thinkprogress.org/trumpcares-back-and-now-it-will-let-insurers-jack-up-premiums-as-soon-as-you-get-sick-38fff5001bf9/
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Trumpcares back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sick (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Sep 2017
OP
Not sure this country can survive 3+ more years of the Fuhrer-in-Chief's reign of terror.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Sep 2017
#1
Wish I could answer that question... it's predictable though, like night follows day.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Sep 2017
#3
Nope... you're SO right about that. We better choose our next presidential candidate VERY carefully
InAbLuEsTaTe
Sep 2017
#5
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)1. Not sure this country can survive 3+ more years of the Fuhrer-in-Chief's reign of terror.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Why does the republican party hate Americans?
They won't be happy till the 99% are living on trash heaps in rags and dyin like dogs in the streets.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)3. Wish I could answer that question... it's predictable though, like night follows day.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. It's amazing and sickening that the 1% in this country
who control and drive the republican party are not satisfied with their hugely obscene wealth.
They must have more, they demand more, they want our health care, social security, Medicaid, medicare, SNAP, SSI, even meals on wheels FFS!
As long as these assholes control our government the 99% are doomed. They will never stop the economic terrorism against the American public.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)5. Nope... you're SO right about that. We better choose our next presidential candidate VERY carefully
... someone who is squeaky clean and knows how to run a winning campaign and energize the base.