GOP's AHCA aka Trump-RyanCare

[Chicks]

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[finnbow]

Consumers Union (of Consumer Reports) weighs in on TrumpRyanCare:

— The replacement ensures broad enrollment in coverage. Grade: F
— Coverage must provide meaningful access to healthcare. Grade: F
— Coverage and healthcare marketplaces must be easy to navigate. Grade: F
— Reforms must address underlying reasons for high costs. Grade: F
— National standard that sets basic consumer protections. Grade: F

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) today received a failing grade from Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization arm of Consumer Reports. The consumer group sent a dismal report card to House members, along with a letter outlining the many failures of the health reform proposal. The report card comes the day before the House Budget Committee markup is scheduled.

We analyzed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and have assigned it a failing grade. As proposed, the bill would lead to tens of millions of consumers losing their insurance coverage (with poorer health outcomes and more premature deaths as a result), higher premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for many others, devastating cuts to Medicaid, and incentives for healthy people to stay out of the insurance market altogether. This is not the future that Americans deserve and is, simply, unacceptable.

http://consumersunion.org/research/a...finance&wpmm=1

[donquixote99]

Obamacare wasn't perfect, but it was SOLID GOLD compared to what the Repubs will do.

[sheltiedave]

It was solid gold because it was a bipartisan effort that they spent a year planning. Trumpcare represents zero planning and no work.

[bobabode]

Consumer Reports gives the AHCA a failing grade across the board.


http://consumersunion.org/wp-content...ReportCard.pdf

Edit - Finnbow beat me to it.

[donquixote99]

If an AHCA kill-millions health no-care bill passes the house, I think there should be a very large encampment on the Mall, to 'petition' the Senate to stop it.

[bobabode]

Key House panel narrowly advances GOP Obamacare overhaul plan, with 3 conservatives opposed WP

"The House Budget Committee on Thursday narrowly voted to advance to the House floor a Republican bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, 19-17, as some conservatives registered their opposition.
Three Republicans opposed the motion — Reps. Dave Brat (Va.), Gary Palmer (Ala.) and Mark Sanford (S.C.). — all of them members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hard-right lawmakers. All Democrats voted against the motion.
After the vote, the committee continued discussing the measure. Republican members are expected to propose revisions to help smooth the bill’s passage through the House."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/power...=.5c80f0f0f902

Looks like the Republicans are open to a more draconian version of this bill.

[icenine]

They don't want to own health care.
Easy no votes from the GOP to come.


They could improve Obamacare and get some support from those in the middle class not qualifying for the exchange subsidies by including them in the mix but they are not that smart. They just want to hook up those making over 250k.

[Chicks]

This is the level of ignorance of the most ardent Trump supporters. They're the same morons who send money to Televangelists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ed1_story.html

NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic’s son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump.

“I think it was just because of the tax credit,” said McComic, 52, a former first-grade teacher who traveled to Trump’s Wednesday night rally in Nashville from Lexington, Tenn., with her daughter, mother, aunt and cousin.

The price change was actually thanks to a subsidy made possible by former president Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which is still in place, not by the tax credits proposed by Republicans as part of the health-care bill still being considered by Congress.

[donquixote99]

I always get robo calls inviting me to Trump rallies withing 100 mikes of here. There's one coming up in Northern Kentucky.

I suppose I ought to go to one, just to experience it first hand. I'd have to come up with a disguise, though....