Republican Death Panel's (Healthcare)
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I will be posting links about the GOP lead effort to rewrite our healthcare system. I will posting these links here under Republican Death Panel's title since the GOP will be going it alone.
10 Ways Mitch McConnell's Secret, Evil Senate Operation to Destroy Obamacare Will Make Life Hell for Many Americans
Mitch McConnell's politics have always been abysmal. But now he's playing with people's lives.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
June 13, 2017, 4:54 PM GMT
http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-mitch-mcconnells-secret-evil-sen...
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The GOP Is Working Stealthily
The GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Health and Financial Protections for Ordinary Americans
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/14/gop-working-stealthily-shr...
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GOP's Planned Attack on Our
GOP's Planned Attack on Our Health Care System Overwhelmingly Targets Blue States
Republicans know they are targeting blue America.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet June 16, 2017, 3:27 PM GMT
http://www.alternet.org/economy/republican-obamacare-repeal-and-medicaid...
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The Not-So-Secret Truth About
The Not-So-Secret Truth About the Senate GOP’s Secret Health Care Bill
The details matter. But at its core, it’s still a massive tax cut paid for by depriving millions of health care.
By Jeffrey Young
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-not-so-secret-truth-about-the-se...
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Thanks for doing this
Thanks for doing this
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Report: GOP Senate Plan Would
Report: GOP Senate Plan Would 'Gouge Poor People' With Even Deeper Medicaid Cuts
"This change would thoroughly demolish Medicaid funding over time, much more so than even the House bill," wrote Slate's Jordan Weissmann
by Jake Johnson, staff writer
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/19/report-gop-senate-plan-woul...
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If the Media Keeps Ignoring
If the Media Keeps Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It
As newsworthy as Russia's interference in the 2016 election is, a bill to take away health insurance from millions is, at the very least, equally worthy of public attention.
by Jeremy Slevin
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/20/if-media-keeps-ignoring-he...
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New study says House GOP healthcare bill would lead to the loss of almost 1 million jobs in 10 years
Bob Bryan,
Published 11:15 pm, Sunday, June 18, 2017
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/New-study-says-House-GOP-healthca...
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Senator Warren ripping Senate
Senator Warren ripping Senate healthcare bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN4CyqhgT-s
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Senator Warren ripping Senate
"These cuts are blood money. People will die."
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Elizabeth Warren Excoriates
Elizabeth Warren Excoriates Senate Republicans for Financing Their Tax Cuts with 'Blood Money'
"People will die."
By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet
June 22, 2017, 11:40 AM GMT
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/elizabeth-warren-excoriates-se...
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Industry Was Doubly Generous
Industry Was Doubly Generous With These 13 GOP Senators Now Drafting Trumpcare
While baker's dozen of Republicans' all-male, all-white legislative team draft bill in secret, analysis reveals giving of insurance and pharmaceutical industries
by Common Dreams staff
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/21/industry-was-doubly-generou...
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So if you want to read an
So if you want to read an intelligent take on the Senate proposal (as opposed to listening to Schumer bloviate about how Republicans want to throw granny in the snow to starve) I suggest you take five minutes to read this article by Avik Roy, who specializes in health care policy:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2017/06/23/the-new-senate-rep...
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>>>>>who specializes in
>>>>>who specializes in health care policy:
Uh, actually he specializes in being a Republican strategist. Great research, Thom.
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Good lord, can't we just go
Good lord, can't we just go to universal and be done with this shit? If people want supplemental, they can get it.
The ACA has problems. The ACHA has problems. Universal will too, but at least everyone will have coverage.
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>>> Good lord, can't we just
>>> Good lord, can't we just go to universal and be done with this shit? If people want supplemental, they can get it. <<
^ THIS
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Thom, please explain to my
Thom, please explain to my why the "American Way" has to be that there are people who can't afford healthcare and necessary medications.
THe Right makes healthcare out to be a luxury: If people want it, they can get it. If they don't, they don't have to.
Why is it viewed as a luxury rather than a right?
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Pro life
Pro-life
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True, this bill cuts funding
True, this bill cuts funding for all Planned Parenthood services and birth control.
It also allows individual states to opt out of covering things like pregnancy, childbirth and pre-existing conditions.
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"If you can't afford
"If you can't afford healthcare, then you die."
A republican friend of mine
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Well, with the current
Well, with the current administration, clean air, water, and food are also luxury items. If people want it, they can get it. If they don't, they don't have to.
So, clearly, death is an option to be considered.
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Paying Thom's salary while he
Paying Thom's salary while he spends yet another day on social media is apparently a luxury the taxpayer's of Delaware can afford too . . . .
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Nice Thom Forbes greed
Nice Thom Forbes greed merchants official read.
Just a giant tax cut to rich and huge giveaway to insurance companies and pharmaceutical POS.
Medicaid was a bailout of allot of Americans aged 50-64 GOP wants to take away there care and access to it.
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Doctors don't like it.
Doctors don't like it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/just-about-every-major-medical...
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Republican Care is nothing
Republican Care:
Death Spiral: It eliminates the individual mandate; reduces subsidies for the poor; reduces benchmark plans to an actuarial value of 58 percent; and increases deductibles and copays. Whatever instability Obamacare currently has, this will make it far, far worse.
Essential Health Benefits: Like the House bill, the Senate bill makes it easy for states to cut essential health benefits, which motivates insurers to offer low-end policies for the working poor that are worthless—but only if you read the fine print.
More Uninsured: It will lead to tens of millions fewer people having health coverage. CBO will provide an exact number in a few days, but we already know it’s going to be big.
Lifetime Caps: Guts protections against annual and lifetime caps, and because of the way the bill is written, it’s likely to do this even for employer insurance, not just for the individual market.
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^^^^^agree 100%
^^^^^agree 100%
Here Is How Senate Republicans Try To Hide The Damage Of Their Repeal Bill
They push the worst parts into the future.
By Jonathan Cohn
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-health-care-hidde...
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nice tax breaks for the rich
nice tax breaks for the rich
retroactive no less
robin hood in reverse
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I doubt it will pass, if it
I doubt it will pass, if it does we are headed to the where concierge doctors will be accepting cash only, insurance will be worthless and only the 1 percent (and lawmakers who are exempt from GOPCare ) will be able to afford health care. this is not an attempt to fix the A.C.A., it's about scrapping it to give tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 percent.
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Obamacare removed lifetime
Obamacare removed lifetime limits - the ability for insurance companies to cap payouts. The GOP plan is permitting insurers to reinstate lifetime caps, and that goes for insurance plans offered by employers. GOT a major disease, well once your cap is reached, you are fucked. The GOP legislation reinstates annual and lifetime benefits limits. How can anyone support or defend this plan?!
Trumpcare < Obamacare
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and it doesn't even address
and it doesn't even address the elephant in the room:
it does nothing to lower premiums or help people in any way to afford healthcare or health insurance (which was allegedly the goal for "repeal & replace"). just blows it off like it's not even an issue.
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^it doesn't do anything to
^it doesn't do anything to address prescription drug prices either.
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personally I think dental
personally I think dental insurance needs serious reform too. Having to pay the full amount for services upfront or you don't receive the services is just insane.
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>>>>>>> How can anyone
>>>>>>> How can anyone support or defend this plan?!
Because a few thousand senile old white people in the rust belt were pissed that a black guy got to be president & leapfrogged in front of the next logical "race" in line (Kennedy was an Irish Catholic; the next logical Race would thus have been Italian or Jewish or Polish, then a Woman; Then & Only Then would it be a Black Guy's "turn").
You think I'm bullshitting about that, you shoulda met my parents & all their friends . . .
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5 Senator's who can be bribed
5 Senator's who can be bribed stand between this bill passing or not. Scary! Remember the cornhusker kickback to get the ACA through. More of that to come unfortunately.
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Considering what I've heard
Considering what I've heard from the NY/NJ building code officials I knew who worked on Trump projects, Trump knows Bribery all too well.
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Koch Brothers’ Groups
Koch Brothers’ Groups Criticize GOP Senate Health Care Bill For Not Being Conservative Enough
The bill is just a “slight nip and tuck,” said Tim Phillips, president of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-brothers-obamacare_us_594fc204e...