Smile; You're Going To Be Getting Trumpcare
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I’m as happy as anyone with the way the Republicans’ plan to wreck our healthcare system crashed and burned last week.
And President Donald Trump is right: Republicans lost because Democrats beat them. We beat them because we were organized, we were unified and we were backed by unprecedented grassroots energy. Members of the U.S. Congress hosted dozens of rallies, advocacy organizations hosted hundreds more and constituents showed up in overwhelming numbers at town halls across this country to make their voices heard.
And what exactly was their message? One of the most poignant moments came at a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. Diane Black, Republican of Tennessee, where a constituent explained her opposition to the GOP bill using faith. As a Christian, she said, her faith was rooted in helping the unfortunate, not cutting taxes on the rich, so why not expand Medicaid and allow everyone to have insurance? And she’s not alone. Last week, a Quinnipiac survey found that voters overwhelmingly oppose cuts to Medicaid -- 74% of them -- including 54% among Republicans.
Given the record high support for publicly funded healthcare, economists, policy experts and commentators everywhere have called on the Democratic party to build on our momentum by supporting a single payer system. But perhaps the most convincing case I heard came from Jessi Bohan, the teacher from Cookeville, Tennessee who spoke at Rep. Black’s town hall.
The week after her question went viral she wrote to the Washington Post that she was troubled to see her comments used as a "defense of Obamacare" instead of what they were: an indictment of any healthcare policy that leaves anyone out. As Bohan so eloquently put it, "it is immoral for health care to be a for-profit enterprise" that allows insurance companies to make "enormous sums of money off the sick while people are struggling to pay their medical bills." If she had it to do over again, she wrote, she would have explained to Black "the Christian case for universal, single-payer health insurance, which would protect all Americans."
While her message was targeted at Republicans, it is one that many of my colleagues in the Democratic Party need to hear as well. For two weeks, I’ve watched Democrats point to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Paul Ryan bill and express righteous outrage that it would lead to 24 million Americans losing their insurance. But that same CBO score says that 28 million Americans will still be without insurance even under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). I’m impressed that the ACA has expanded Medicaid eligibility in states that have adopted it and more than 20 million previously uninsured now have insurance, but universal healthcare it is not.
Time and time again I’ve heard Democrats dodge questions about their support for universal healthcare by saying they’re focused right now on defending the ACA. Now that we have repelled Paul Ryan’s attack and Donald Trump has signaled that Republicans will move on, the time for those excuses has passed.
For years, I’ve also watched as Democrats, including our presidential nominee last year, have avoided putting their name behind single payer by saying they’re focused on politically achievable short-term goals.
Single payer is politically achievable.
It is true that single-payer healthcare has been implemented in virtually every other advanced democracy on Earth. It is also true that in those countries, people live longer andhealthcare is dramatically less expensive than it is here.
And finally, it is true that Medicare for All is the direction Americans overwhelmingly want us to go. Nevertheless, I want my colleagues to join me in supporting single-payer not to save money or to win elections, but because it is the moral and just thing to do. If, like me, you believe healthcare is a right to everyone and not a privilege to those who can afford it, let’s be organized and let’s be unified in our support for Medicare for All.
Conyers: Medicare for All's time has come
And President Donald Trump is right: Republicans lost because Democrats beat them. We beat them because we were organized, we were unified and we were backed by unprecedented grassroots energy. Members of the U.S. Congress hosted dozens of rallies, advocacy organizations hosted hundreds more and constituents showed up in overwhelming numbers at town halls across this country to make their voices heard.
And what exactly was their message? One of the most poignant moments came at a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. Diane Black, Republican of Tennessee, where a constituent explained her opposition to the GOP bill using faith. As a Christian, she said, her faith was rooted in helping the unfortunate, not cutting taxes on the rich, so why not expand Medicaid and allow everyone to have insurance? And she’s not alone. Last week, a Quinnipiac survey found that voters overwhelmingly oppose cuts to Medicaid -- 74% of them -- including 54% among Republicans.
Given the record high support for publicly funded healthcare, economists, policy experts and commentators everywhere have called on the Democratic party to build on our momentum by supporting a single payer system. But perhaps the most convincing case I heard came from Jessi Bohan, the teacher from Cookeville, Tennessee who spoke at Rep. Black’s town hall.
The week after her question went viral she wrote to the Washington Post that she was troubled to see her comments used as a "defense of Obamacare" instead of what they were: an indictment of any healthcare policy that leaves anyone out. As Bohan so eloquently put it, "it is immoral for health care to be a for-profit enterprise" that allows insurance companies to make "enormous sums of money off the sick while people are struggling to pay their medical bills." If she had it to do over again, she wrote, she would have explained to Black "the Christian case for universal, single-payer health insurance, which would protect all Americans."
While her message was targeted at Republicans, it is one that many of my colleagues in the Democratic Party need to hear as well. For two weeks, I’ve watched Democrats point to the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Paul Ryan bill and express righteous outrage that it would lead to 24 million Americans losing their insurance. But that same CBO score says that 28 million Americans will still be without insurance even under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). I’m impressed that the ACA has expanded Medicaid eligibility in states that have adopted it and more than 20 million previously uninsured now have insurance, but universal healthcare it is not.
Time and time again I’ve heard Democrats dodge questions about their support for universal healthcare by saying they’re focused right now on defending the ACA. Now that we have repelled Paul Ryan’s attack and Donald Trump has signaled that Republicans will move on, the time for those excuses has passed.
For years, I’ve also watched as Democrats, including our presidential nominee last year, have avoided putting their name behind single payer by saying they’re focused on politically achievable short-term goals.
Single payer is politically achievable.
It is true that single-payer healthcare has been implemented in virtually every other advanced democracy on Earth. It is also true that in those countries, people live longer andhealthcare is dramatically less expensive than it is here.
And finally, it is true that Medicare for All is the direction Americans overwhelmingly want us to go. Nevertheless, I want my colleagues to join me in supporting single-payer not to save money or to win elections, but because it is the moral and just thing to do. If, like me, you believe healthcare is a right to everyone and not a privilege to those who can afford it, let’s be organized and let’s be unified in our support for Medicare for All.
Conyers: Medicare for All's time has come
Under this amendment, here are est hikes in premiums for ppl w/:
Asthma: $4k
Diabetes: $5.5k
Pregnancy: $17k
Arthritis: $26k
Cancer: $140k!
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Asthma: $4k
Diabetes: $5.5k
Pregnancy: $17k
Arthritis: $26k
Cancer: $140k!
https://t.co/doGukuaNCc
Trump Praised Australia's Universal Health Care Right After The House Repealed Obamacare
"You have better health care than we do," Trump told Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
While answering questions about the House of Representatives vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act Thursday, Trump said Australia's health care system was better than the one in the US.
The GOP has routinely spoken against creating a similar system in the US. Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid coverage was also not popular among the Republicans, and became one of the reasons they vowed for years to repeal the law.
In January, Trump told the Washington Post he wanted "insurance for everybody." That's ultimately not how the Obamacare replacement bill has been structured.
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the paper. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
His position on single-payer health care has changed over time. In 1999, Trump said in an interview with Larry King that he supported universal health care. In more recent interviews, Trump praised the system as it worked in Canada and Scotland — but he offered few details about what kind of health care system he'd like to see implemented in the US, PolitiFact reported.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoe...ed-health-care?utm_term=.erZ7Wz8ea#.tjxP65qEZ
"You have better health care than we do," Trump told Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
While answering questions about the House of Representatives vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act Thursday, Trump said Australia's health care system was better than the one in the US.
The GOP has routinely spoken against creating a similar system in the US. Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid coverage was also not popular among the Republicans, and became one of the reasons they vowed for years to repeal the law.
In January, Trump told the Washington Post he wanted "insurance for everybody." That's ultimately not how the Obamacare replacement bill has been structured.
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump told the paper. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
His position on single-payer health care has changed over time. In 1999, Trump said in an interview with Larry King that he supported universal health care. In more recent interviews, Trump praised the system as it worked in Canada and Scotland — but he offered few details about what kind of health care system he'd like to see implemented in the US, PolitiFact reported.
video
https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoe...ed-health-care?utm_term=.erZ7Wz8ea#.tjxP65qEZ
Sanders laughs after President Trump praises single payer health care
"Wait a minute Chris," Sanders said. "The president has just said it. That's great. Let's take a look at the Australian healthcare system. Maybe let's take a look at the Canadian healthcare system or systems throughout Europe. Thank you, Mr. president. Let us move to a Medicare-for-all system that does what every other major country on earth does to guarantee health care to all people at a fraction of the cost per capita that we spend. Thank you, Mr. president. We will quote you on the floor of the Senate."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyeucHEl0Vw
"Wait a minute Chris," Sanders said. "The president has just said it. That's great. Let's take a look at the Australian healthcare system. Maybe let's take a look at the Canadian healthcare system or systems throughout Europe. Thank you, Mr. president. Let us move to a Medicare-for-all system that does what every other major country on earth does to guarantee health care to all people at a fraction of the cost per capita that we spend. Thank you, Mr. president. We will quote you on the floor of the Senate."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyeucHEl0Vw
The 'Oracle of Omaha' Condemns Republican Health Care Bill At Berkshire Meeting
When asked about the bill Republicans in Congress just voted to pass to repeal and replace Obamacare, Buffett signaled his distaste for a tax cut provision. Obamacare pays for health care for Americans in part by taxing wealthier people. The Republican bill scraps that tax on the wealthy.
And Buffett has apparently done the math here. If the Republican bill had been law last year, he said, "my federal taxes would have gone down 17 percent last year, so it's a huge tax cut for guys like me."
"That is in the law that was passed a couple days ago," he added. "Anybody with $250,000 a year of adjusted gross income and a lot of investment income is going to have a huge tax cut."
Billionaire Warren Buffett On Health Care, Tax Cuts And A.I. At Berkshire Meeting : The Two-Way : NPR
When asked about the bill Republicans in Congress just voted to pass to repeal and replace Obamacare, Buffett signaled his distaste for a tax cut provision. Obamacare pays for health care for Americans in part by taxing wealthier people. The Republican bill scraps that tax on the wealthy.
And Buffett has apparently done the math here. If the Republican bill had been law last year, he said, "my federal taxes would have gone down 17 percent last year, so it's a huge tax cut for guys like me."
"That is in the law that was passed a couple days ago," he added. "Anybody with $250,000 a year of adjusted gross income and a lot of investment income is going to have a huge tax cut."
Billionaire Warren Buffett On Health Care, Tax Cuts And A.I. At Berkshire Meeting : The Two-Way : NPR
50 Preexisting Conditions That Can Make You Lose Your Insurance If Trump and GOP Have Their Way
50 Preexisting Conditions That Can Make You Lose Your Insurance If Trump and GOP Have Their Way | Alternet
50 Preexisting Conditions That Can Make You Lose Your Insurance If Trump and GOP Have Their Way | Alternet
You could add Canada to that list. A recent study showed that the cost of medications is the major factor forcing many seniors into poverty.
$8 billion comes nowhere close to meeting Republican commitments to people with pre-existing conditions
The details behind this additional $8 billion are unclear; some accounts suggest it would go to fund state high-risk pools, while others suggest it would go for other purposes. But either way, the additional funding wouldn't come remotely close to addressing the severe problems that the bill creates for people with pre-existing conditions. Notably, the $8 billion would restore less than 1 percent of the nearly $1 trillion the House bill cuts from programs that help people afford coverage.
Moreover, according to news accounts, the additional funding would be available only to states that sought federal waivers of protections for people with pre-existing conditions. If so, the new funding would create even stronger incentives than the current bill for states to drop these protections. That could make the bill even worse than before for people with serious health needs.
Here's why $8 billion can't meet the President and congressional Republicans' commitments.
Health care reform $8 billion won't cut it for pre-existing conditions
The details behind this additional $8 billion are unclear; some accounts suggest it would go to fund state high-risk pools, while others suggest it would go for other purposes. But either way, the additional funding wouldn't come remotely close to addressing the severe problems that the bill creates for people with pre-existing conditions. Notably, the $8 billion would restore less than 1 percent of the nearly $1 trillion the House bill cuts from programs that help people afford coverage.
Moreover, according to news accounts, the additional funding would be available only to states that sought federal waivers of protections for people with pre-existing conditions. If so, the new funding would create even stronger incentives than the current bill for states to drop these protections. That could make the bill even worse than before for people with serious health needs.
Here's why $8 billion can't meet the President and congressional Republicans' commitments.
Health care reform $8 billion won't cut it for pre-existing conditions
The CA Dem party just elected a pharmaceutical lobbyist to be their new chair over a staunch single payer supporter
Even as the state Democratic Party’s executive committee is being asked to endorse a November ballot measure that would cap prescription drug prices in California, a top party member — who is also on the Assembly speaker’s payroll — is pulling down $12,500 a month from the pharmaceutical industry to help defeat it.
Records show that Eric Bauman wears many hats these days, and that he has critics in his own party questioning his role in the $68 million campaign to defeat the California Drug Price Relief Act initiative.
Bauman insists there are no conflicts and that his state work doesn’t involve advising Rendon on pharmaceutical or other policy matters.
Captain I'm picking up b ullshit.........
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Even as the state Democratic Party’s executive committee is being asked to endorse a November ballot measure that would cap prescription drug prices in California, a top party member — who is also on the Assembly speaker’s payroll — is pulling down $12,500 a month from the pharmaceutical industry to help defeat it.
Records show that Eric Bauman wears many hats these days, and that he has critics in his own party questioning his role in the $68 million campaign to defeat the California Drug Price Relief Act initiative.
Bauman insists there are no conflicts and that his state work doesn’t involve advising Rendon on pharmaceutical or other policy matters.
Captain I'm picking up b ullshit.........
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So will Trumpcare be better than Obamacare.........?
People sleep on their cars waiting to enter the Remote Area Medical free clinic in the coal country of Appalachia
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People sleep on their cars waiting to enter the Remote Area Medical free clinic in the coal country of Appalachia
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