Because there's no way to over-emphasize the point, here's yet another reminder that the Senate "healthcare" bill is terrible by every measure other than as a tax cut for the rich. It doesn't do anything to "fix" health care, and everything it does do makes America's healthcare problems much worse.
The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill would drive up the uninsured rate across all demographics, CBO estimates, but hit low-income Americans the hardest. That could leave almost 30 percent of low-income individuals aged 50-64 without coverage by 2026, with close to 40 percent of low income individuals between 30 and 49 years old going uninsured.
It's a reversal of the Affordable Care Act that neatly rockets the number of uninsured Americans back up to the levels that were considered a crisis in the years before the law took effect. And that's not even taking into account the millions of Americans who will get worse health insurance because the Senate is gutting the rules saying what that insurance must cover.
The cuts to Medicaid, meanwhile, are simply a straight-up effort to throw people off the program while blaming the individual states for doing the dirty work.
The legislation would phase out enhanced funding for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and end the whole program’s entitlement status by imposing new limits on federal funding. Those changes amount to an estimated $772 billion cut to the program over a decade, CBO projected, and force states to take on a greater share of the financial responsibility. As a result, the nonpartisan scorekeeping office projected that some states would need to cut Medicaid benefits and restrict the program’s eligibility.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2tvGZMx
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