Note the date of this tweet: I cannot support any bill that would jeopardize health care coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. #tcot #utpol — Orrin Hatch (@OrrinHatch) December 2, 2009 Note that Hatch was one of the 13 white men who drafted the Senate’s version of the health bill, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) …
Just because Rasputin Senator McConnell pulled the BCRA bill before it could be shot down during the preliminary vote to proceed with debate doesn’t mean he and his party have given up. Remember that Ryan had to do the same thing in the House and they passed it two months after the initial failure. If …
So the CBO sez the “new improved” Senate health care bill will only throw 22 million Americans by 2026 if enacted as is, down from the House’s 23 million. Huzzah? Even more startling, 15 million of those 22 million would lose insurance in 2018. So let me get this straight. In order to give a …
Oh, not much. Just long-term care, opioid treatment centers, mental health centers, disability coverage, and so on. Share this as widely as you can.
If you live in a Republican state, get on the phone to your Representatives and Senators. The House is trying to destroy the financial reforms Dodd-Frank put in place, including the Consumer Financial Protection Board and has already passed legislation to go to the Senate to do just that. The Senate is trying very hard …
That’s what the AHCA is. 24 million or so people lose health care coverage because it’s no longer funded. Why? Because you can’t fund it and give all this away to the wealthiest 0.01% of the US population. One analysis of an earlier version of the bill estimated that it contains $600 billion in tax …
Al Giordano published a tweetstorm which has now been storified explaining why he thinks it could defy attempts to repeal and replace it. Today's tweetstorm on Obamacare and organizing, now Storified…https://t.co/4OGq2pHBkb — Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) March 16, 2017
Is there a single person in the Trump Administration with brains above a third-grade level? I mean, Pence goes to Kentucky today to sell Trumpcare and makes the idiotic claim that the ACA hurt Kentuckians. Look at the chart below which shows the percentage of people in that state uninsured in 2015, five years after …
We’ll see what happens, but Senator Murphy has it right. This is simple stuff. Trump promised to cover everyone. He is now pushing a bill that ends insurance for millions. Promise broken. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 8, 2017
Ladies and germs, this is the website for the House Republican’s plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. There is a plan to get there The House Republican Healthcare Plan lowers costs, provides more control and more choices to pick a plan that meets our needs, not a plan that Washington mandates. That’s it. Oh, …