GOP's AHCA aka Trump-RyanCare

[bobabode]

"This week Axios reported that the emerging Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will allow states to waive coverage of essential health benefits for small employer and individually purchased plans. In waiver states, this cut in benefits would be catastrophic for people who are sick or have a pre-existing condition and need prescription drugs, treatment for opioid addiction, or other services that could be excluded.
But the waivers would have a much broader impact, affecting millions of workers with employer coverage in every state—even nonwaiver states. As The Wall Street Journal reported, the waivers of essential health benefits would also eviscerate important financial protections that apply to large employer plans." CAP

https://www.americanprogress.org/iss...ns-nationwide/

No wonder McConnell doesn't want anyone to see or debate this shitty move.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

No wonder McConnell doesn't want anyone to see or debate this shitty move.

Secrecy Surrounding Senate Health Bill Raises Alarms in Both Parties

“I’ve said from Day 1, and I’ll say it again,” said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee. “The process is better if you do it in public, and that people get buy-in along the way and understand what’s going on. Obviously, that’s not the route that is being taken.”

and,

“They’re ashamed of the bill,” the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, said. “If they liked the bill, they’d have brass bands marching down the middle of small-town America saying what a great bill it is. But they know it isn’t.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/u...=top-news&_r=0

[CarlV]

I just got an email from Feinstein's office I have yet to look at, mainlt because this PC can't play videos. Here is an email as a webpage link. May work, may not, dunno.

https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextran...c=SenFeinstein