They call people like us—meaning progressives—pro-choice.
But we are also pro-life—actually, really pro-life. We want policies that maximize life. Those who wrap themselves in the pro-life mantra but sneer at our pro-choice stance should be joining those of us who want to preserve the Affordable Care Act.
The so-called pro-lifers want to give individuals and families the right to choose any health insurance—or none at all. Essentially, that means the choice to purchase junk insurance. It’s clear that those who don’t buy insurance (and those with lousy, cheap insurance) are signing a death sentence.
While “pro-lifers” want to control individual women's birth control options under the pretext that a zygote, embryo, morula, or blastocyst is more important than a child already born, they give little consideration to their otherwise less-than life-supporting policy stances. If the following statistics do not make the case for pro-lifers to remove their hypocritical aura, then nothing will.
The numbers are out, and Trumpcare will cause the deaths of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.
Repealing the Affordable Care Act without replacing it, as some conservative hardliners are demanding, would cost a minimum of 37,127 lives over the next two years (14,528 in 2018 and 22,599 in 2019), and perhaps as many as four times that number, according to scientific studies summarized in an editorial in this week’s American Journal of Public Health. [...]
The CBO estimates that the American Health Care Act, the Republican plan to replace the ACA, would cause 14 million people to lose insurance in the first year alone. By 2026, 24 million would lose coverage, leading to a total of 52 million uninsured in that year.
Common sense tells us health policy-driven deaths are likely to be on the high side as more and more people are unable to get early care. And maybe worse than dying is having to live while permanently sick, disabled, and in pain with no recourse or relief in sight.
But guess what? You no longer have to play the ideological game.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2oklIzh
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