Healthcare

White House v. CBO

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/24/white-house-video-misleads-on-cbo-health-care-estimates/?utm_term=.46c8a4e0e57e

 

Seven Republicans vote against "repeal only."

 

What a mess. Man politicians suck, your as much as mine. You go down with your sinking ship. I'm staying ashore.

 

Mine is quite positive too.

I came to Canada with coding skills, so didn't have to work in stereotypical "survival jobs" (security guards, retail, fast food, construction, stuff like that). Nevertheless, it's quite liberating to have a little plastic card saying you'll have access to health care no matter what. Sure helps when you're laid off, or need to change a job that's a bad fit. With current prevalence of precarious work, this is important not just for immigrants.

One possible outcome I see is Republican shenanigans destroying individual insurance markets, and driving up the premiums for employers. Eventual Democratic Congress will then be forced to, rather than fixing the mess, just pass a single payer system (expanding either Medicare or Medicaid, adjusting as needed), or a new system with true universal coverage. Thus ending this madness, and finally shutting up them smug Canadians.

 

GOP Obamacare repeal bill fails in dramatic late-night vote:

Health care debate: GOP Obamacare repeal bill fails - CNNPolitics.com

 

Well that was not unexpected. Now what?

 

What and miss out on the partisan lies to rile everyone up? That's disappointing.

 

a glitch in that whole "let it implode" idea

Lawsuits could force feds to pay Obamacare insurers - POLITICO

 

can they do that?

Republican donor sues GOP for fraud over ObamaCare repeal failure

 

So it's a last ditch effort to pass anything, even a terrible piece of legislation, just so they can say that they "repealed and replaced" Obamacare. Sen. Grassley knows it's a terrible bill that will hurt millions of Americans but he doesn't care, as long as he gets re-elected.

Chuck Grassley audio: GOP must pass health bill to uphold campaign promise

 

It looks like McCain will be a "no" vote. Two other senators are on the fence about how they will vote.

 

another failed attempt

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-look-next-year-obamacare-repeal-bills-dead-ok-201042030.html

 

Indeed - another failed attempt. The U.S. is alone among all the (50+) highly developed countries of the world, in not providing universal health care! The U.S. is the Only Very Highly Developed Country Without Universal HealthCare - Fact or Myth? I wonder why that is?

Brace yourselves for the coming Twitter rants from the Leader of the Free World ... after he's through with football players and Rocket Man!

J.

 

Trumps latest move

Key questions and answers about Trump's health care move - ABC News

 

The subsidies go to the insurers so the effect on policyholders may be nil.

 

You're joking, right?

 

Wrong.

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So you think the insurance companies are going to just eat the loss and keep premiums, co-pays, etc. the same? Of course they're not. They're going to pass every single dollar of that loss onto the consumers who will be forced to pay so much for their coverage that they may as well not have any coverage at all. So much for your populist president

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-ally-says-president-cut-174121430.html