Howard Dean: GOP 'taking money from people on Medicaid' who voted for Trump and 'giving it to CEOs'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



DAVID EDWARDS
07 MAR 2017 AT 09:59 ET

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean asserted on Tuesday that the Republican plan to “replace” the Affordable Care Act was going to take the biggest toll on President Donald Trump’s own voters.

During a discussion on MSNBC about the House Republican’s health care bill — known as the American Health Care Act — Dean warned that 15 million people could lose their insurance under the new law.

According to Dean, a “big majority” of those who would lose their coverage “are in states that voted for Donald Trump.”

“The estimate is that by 2020 15 million Americans will have lost their health insurance as a result of this bill,” he explained. “Mostly as a result of the phasing out of the Medicaid (expansion).”

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[mobeau69]

1. We need Dean out everyday on this. n/t

[Ray Bruns]

2. Unfortunately, I think this is the only way we will get Trump voters to vote blue.

Some people only learn when they are in pain. It is going to get ugly. A lot of people are going to get hurt. No one deserves that. But I believe that is the only way we will turn this around and get single payer.

[CTyankee]

15. it is very sad, indeed. AS the Yiddish saying goes "we are too soon dumb and too late smart..."

[Mz Pip]

3. Trump voters

Will just be enjoying their personal liberty.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Paul Ryan's Defunding Health Care Bill

to make health care universally available to those able to pay for it

All others pray for their sins

Apply financial thumbscrew here

Open wide and say all together now "OUCH!!!"

[BumRushDaShow]

5. They don't associate the money they get with the expansion as being from "Obamacare".

Boy will they (and far too many innocents ) be in for a rude awakening.

[Bengus81]

6. By 2020?? HELL,now about a month or so AFTER Trumpdon'tcare comes out???

I would be hit with a premium of nearly $850.00 per month as would millions of others. Even at that amount your still only covered 80%. Trying doing that rate if your retired.

[dlk]

7. The Republican Party is All About Redistribution of Wealth to Corporations and the Rich

The Republican Party has gone far in turning our democracy from the United States into the united corporations. They are all about the redistribution of our country's wealth into a small concentration at the top.

[Buckeyeblue]

8. How much income does Medicaid create

For the healthcare industry? It seems like the downstream impact of this will be 15 million people opting to get no healthcare, until it becomes emergent, then hospitals will have to treat and take a loss. So impacts are two fold: loss of revenue for healthcare facilities and net loss revenue for hospitals. So a loss of Medicaid equates to a loss of jobs and higher costs to defray the impending losses for hospitals.

Sounds like a great deal!

[Sunlei]

13. Think about the thousands & thousands of JOBS our Medicaid system creates. JOBS GONE TOO.

State taxpayers will have to pay for uninsured crawling in Hospitals for emergency care AGAIN, thanks to Republicans.

[rtracey]

9. ummm

Don't want to be cynical, but tough shit, maybe that will teach them that Mussolini although in "power" now needs to leave it asap, if not by impeachment in 2018 when dems control congress, but in 2020 when we get a young John F. Kennedy type to come really make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, after fuckump destroys it.

[Solly Mack]

10. One part of me really wishes

I could reach these people and the other part of me wants to smack them.

So I guess it's a good thing I can't reach them.

[adigal]

11. Are they expecting me to feel badly for those who voted for Trump and will lose everything??

Cause I don't. Not one tiny little bit. Screw them.

I will save my compassion for those who didn't vote for him and are going to suffer.

[Sunlei]

12. why do republican voters let GOP destroy their coverage? yell now or curl up and die quietly later.

[yurbud]

14. Can Democrats please buy Dean back from lobbyists?

[dalton99a]

16. The Medicaid people? They're so funny.