Latest Trumpcare bill could leave many veterans with no health care

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The Senate Trumpcare bill could leave many veterans with no health care

September 18, 2017

This is a timely new study for all those patriotic, veteran-loving Republican senators who might be tempted to support another vote on Obamacare repeal: it would leave many veterans uninsured and put additional strain on the VA medical system

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...could-leave-many-veterans-with-no-health-care

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/stu...ncrease-uninsured-veterans-strain-va-1.487557

September 18, 2017

The CBO Won’t Score the Final Trumpcare Bill for Weeks

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...score-the-final-trumpcare-bill-for-weeks.html

Here is a look at a few of the ways Louisianians will suffer under the Cassidy-Graham-Heller bill:

Ends the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which covers over 430,000 Louisiana residents.

Cancels tax credits that help over 110,000 Louisiana families – 90 percent of Louisiana marketplace enrollees – afford health insurance.

Eliminates subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket costs for 70,000 Louisiana residents, which is 58 percent of the total marketplace enrollees in the state.

Slashes billions in federal funding to states for expanding health insurance coverage and lowering costs.

https://louisianademocrats.org/2017/09/14/release-how-cassidy-bill-will-impact-louisiana/

Senator Bill Cassidy formerly has stuck to the painful truth. Now, he has started to tell lies. What changed ?


Republicans fast-track another 'Obamacare' repeal effort

he Congressional Budget Office is in the process of estimating the cost and coverage impact of the Graham-Cassidy bill, according to a senior Senate Republican aide. The measure from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., would provide states with funding to establish health insurance programs outside ACA protections and mandates, an approach that could force millions off insurance rolls.

Republicans are facing pressure to undercut the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, with legislation as soon as possible, partially because the Senate's ability to pass budgetary legislation with a simple majority expires Sept. 30. After that date, health-care legislation will require 60 votes to pass, making it much harder for Republicans to approve legislation that would restructure Obamacare.

http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2017/09/senate_republicans_fast-track.html
 
If you are a veteran, that happens to be a woman ?


“It’ll go back to the old rules,” Brandi said, “where maternity care is a pre-existing condition and so patients won’t be able to access care because they have this preexisting condition of pregnancy.”

“I didn’t think it could get any worse.”

-Dr. Kristyn Brandi, a Los Angeles OB/GYN and fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.


http://theslot.jezebel.com/experts-say-the-new-trumpcare-bill-will-have-devastatin-1818524814


Senate Republicans are on the cusp of passing a bill that will eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of health funding, destabilize insurance markets, and eventually phase out Medicaid in its entirety.

The new Trumpcare legislation — often referred to as “Graham-Cassidy” after Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), its leading proponents — contains several provisions undercutting the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates subsidies helping many millions of Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, replacing this funding with a less generous block grant to states.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-gops-...se-out-medicaid-in-its-entirety-c2677f7de2f3/


After seven years of politically charged “warnings” about the Affordable Care Act and seven years of hollowed-out promises that there is a perfect, utterly impermeable antidote, Republican Senators have hit the eleventh-hour on their push to repeal and replace the historic health care bill. Their last-ditch effort to do so is the most egregious attempt yet.

September 30 marks the expiration date on the GOP’s window to pass health care legislation through a process known as “reconciliation,” which includes rigid time restrains, limits to debate, tight budgetary rules and, most notably, bill passage by simple majority—50 Senate votes rather than 60. While three Republican Senators—including Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—voted no on a repeal bill earlier this month, it has been reported that this time, the party is closer than ever to reaching the halfway mark.


The bill would also increase state’s ability to waive Obamacare regulations, such as the directive that keeps insurers from omitting required benefits like maternity or mental health care, or charging higher premiums to people who are sick or suffer from drug addiction. Coverage for those with so-called pre-existing conditions is no longer protected, and is more endangered than ever. Furthermore, the temporary freezing of federal funding to Planned Parenthood, as well as the ending of the individual insurance mandate, is expected to alarmingly diminish access to care. All of this boils down to a loss of coverage and care for millions of women, which means, as Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority reminds us, “we have to make sure our voices speak louder and longer than [GOP] money and influence.

http://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/09/18/latest-version-trumpcare-worst-one-yet/
 
VoteVets

VoteVets @votevets

#GrahamCassidy cuts #Medicaid. 1,750,000 veterans covered by Medicaid. A vote for #GrahamCassidy is a vote to take healthcare from veterans.

11:29 AM · Sep 18, 2017

Obamacare repeal 3.0 isn’t limited to kicking 32 million people off of their health insurance and raising premiums for preexisting conditions. The bill also would take healthcare away from children, veterans, seniors, and the disabled.


The latest Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare is even worse than their previous two. By block granting the program, Republicans are locking in devastating cuts to health care while rewarding incompetent states which cover fewer people or give those in need less coverage.

This legislation is horrifyingly bad, and what’s worse is that is within one vote of passing the Senate.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09...-republicans-move-coverage-kids-disabled.html
 
This is a serious issue. If anyone deserves our respect and gov't aid it's veterans. Still way too wordy for me to read, but I will take a leap of faith that we are on the same side with this issue.
 
Surprise! Ultra Christian devotion does not prevent Mike Pence from telling lies to America's face.

Waffle! Squirm! Deflect.

"Folks like Jimmy Kimmel, they’re worried about the preexisting condition thing, ’cause this will be up to the governors to decide how the money is dispersed, who gets coverage,” host Ainsley Earhardt said. “Can you guarantee that these governors will make sure that preexisting conditions are covered?”

Pence dodged the question with a fake Thomas Jefferson quote.

Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least, governs best,'” Pence said, using a quote that the Thomas Jefferson Foundation says Jefferson never uttered.


Both Pence and Trump are lying. As ThinkProgress previously detailed, Graham-Cassidy allows states to allow to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions, charging them more and possibly pricing them out of the market.


https://thinkprogress.org/pence-use...itical-question-about-trumpcare-f3647fe54811/
 
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Surprise! Ultra Christian devotion does not prevent Mike Pence from telling lies to America's face.

Waffle! Squirm! Deflect.

"Folks like Jimmy Kimmel, they’re worried about the preexisting condition thing, ’cause this will be up to the governors to decide how the money is dispersed, who gets coverage,” host Ainsley Earhardt said. “Can you guarantee that these governors will make sure that preexisting conditions are covered?”

Pence dodged the question with a fake Thomas Jefferson quote.

Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government that governs least, governs best,'” Pence said, using a quote that the Thomas Jefferson Foundation says Jefferson never uttered.


Both Pence and Trump are lying. As ThinkProgress previously detailed, Graham-Cassidy allows states to allow to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions, charging them more and possibly pricing them out of the market.


https://thinkprogress.org/pence-use...itical-question-about-trumpcare-f3647fe54811/
So instead of one bureaucracy, he wants fifty-plus bureaucracies. How is that less government?
 
Sanders vs Graham

Not as tasty as chicken & waffles but maybe crackers will catch on!
 
Should be very interesting now that Trumpcare is dead!
TrompCare has done a zombi act before. Gups still have a week to offer enough bribes to squeeze it through and ruin millions of lives and the national economy. Heaven help them if they fail. Heaven help everyone else if they don't. Wait, there ain't no heaven. Voters, call your pols!
 
I don't think the latest Repeal (can't add "replace," as they've never had a ghost of a chance to put forward a viable replace) proposal is being done to succeed. I think they are just trying to get their big-time (give me my tax break I bribed you to get) donors off their backs--or at least the backs of those willing to vote to carry through with repeal under all circumstances. Does that make the Republicans still pushing this scumbags? Indeed it does.
 
Obama care

The Senate Trumpcare bill could leave many veterans with no health care

September 18, 2017

This is a timely new study for all those patriotic, veteran-loving Republican senators who might be tempted to support another vote on Obamacare repeal: it would leave many veterans uninsured and put additional strain on the VA medical system

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...could-leave-many-veterans-with-no-health-care

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/stu...ncrease-uninsured-veterans-strain-va-1.487557

September 18, 2017

The CBO Won’t Score the Final Trumpcare Bill for Weeks

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...score-the-final-trumpcare-bill-for-weeks.html

Here is a look at a few of the ways Louisianians will suffer under the Cassidy-Graham-Heller bill:

Ends the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, which covers over 430,000 Louisiana residents.

Cancels tax credits that help over 110,000 Louisiana families – 90 percent of Louisiana marketplace enrollees – afford health insurance.

Eliminates subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket costs for 70,000 Louisiana residents, which is 58 percent of the total marketplace enrollees in the state.

Slashes billions in federal funding to states for expanding health insurance coverage and lowering costs.

https://louisianademocrats.org/2017/09/14/release-how-cassidy-bill-will-impact-louisiana/

Senator Bill Cassidy formerly has stuck to the painful truth. Now, he has started to tell lies. What changed ?


Republicans fast-track another 'Obamacare' repeal effort

he Congressional Budget Office is in the process of estimating the cost and coverage impact of the Graham-Cassidy bill, according to a senior Senate Republican aide. The measure from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., would provide states with funding to establish health insurance programs outside ACA protections and mandates, an approach that could force millions off insurance rolls.

Republicans are facing pressure to undercut the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, with legislation as soon as possible, partially because the Senate's ability to pass budgetary legislation with a simple majority expires Sept. 30. After that date, health-care legislation will require 60 votes to pass, making it much harder for Republicans to approve legislation that would restructure Obamacare.

http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2017/09/senate_republicans_fast-track.html

My wife has Obamacare $640 a month for a $12,000 deductible
Starting next year it's going up to $950 a month with a $15,000 deductible and only one healthcare plan to choose from for the bronze plan
We are going to opt out and pay the penalty
 
Yes, the current system needs to be fixed. But not only is there no Republican effort to fix it, the Republicans are doing everything they can to sabotage what's there and also are trying to repeal it entirely without having anything viable to replace it with. The sensible thing to do is to continue working with what's there to make it better, not just to toss it out without anything workable to replace it with.

As has been suggested elsewhere, the simple fix is just to stop calling it Obamacare, start calling it Ivankacare, and start fixing it.
 
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