House GOP reveals AHCA: Update - Repeal of ACA IS BACK ON

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GOP health care bill would kill 1.8 million jobs in 2022, says new analysis

The U.S. economy would produce 1.8 million fewer jobs in 2022 if the Republican legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act became law, according to a new analysis by the Center for American Progress.

Two provisions in the legislation accounted for most of the projected job losses: repealing expanded eligibility for Medicaid coverage and cutting federal financial assistance for marketplace health coverage.

Both measures were expected to eliminate 2.2 million jobs in 2022, according to the study by the left-leaning think tank.

But the bill’s nearly $600 billion in tax cuts – that mainly benefit higher-income Americans - are expected to add 468,000 new jobs, resulting in a net loss of about 1.8 million jobs.

Previous studies have estimated that millions would lose jobs if the health law were repealed.

But the new CAP estimates are among the first to look at the labor market implications of the American Health Care Act, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill that’s expected to face a full floor vote in the House this week.


Read more here: GOP health care bill would kill 1.8 million jobs in 2022, says new analysis

 

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In pro-Trump Vinton County, Obamacare repeal could bring major consequences: Ohio Matters

McARTHUR, Ohio--In rural Vinton County, where 70 percent of voters backed President Donald Trump last year, there's a lot of support for scrapping the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

But if Obamacare is repealed, and the accompanying money to expand Medicaid coverage is rolled back, there could be major repercussions in this isolated, poor, rural county of 13,000 people.

More than 1,100 Medicaid recipients here who became eligible for benefits thanks to expansion -- 8.5 percent of the county -- could lose their coverage.

But the impact on Vinton County could go far beyond them: health-care leaders warn that repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean layoffs and cuts in local medical and addiction services - and, possibly, even the closure of the county's only medical facility.

That facility, run by Hopewell Health Centers in the county seat of McArthur, offered medical and dental services to about 4,200 people last year - roughly a third of the county's population. In addition, Hopewell operates a nearby behavioral health facility.

Hopewell, which also runs health centers in five other nearby counties, has expanded and ramped up services in the past five years thanks to the Affordable Care Act, said Hopewell CEO Mark Bridenbaugh. In Vinton County, it hired another primary care doctor and a behavioral health consultant; a sixth dentist chair was added as well.

But if Obamacare and Medicaid expansion are abolished, Bridenbaugh said, Hopewell would lose about $5.5 million per year in Medicaid payments and grant money - about one-sixth of the company's entire budget.

In pro-Trump Vinton County, Obamacare repeal could bring major consequences: Ohio Matters

 

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Trump voters in South Georgia come to terms with GOP health plan

Under the proposed plan, thousands of Georgians who live in rural areas that voted overwhelmingly for Trump – by a whopping 75 to nearly 90 percent in some cases – could lose out on thousands of dollars in tax credits to help them buy health coverage, an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has found.

Kenneth Peek is among many Trump supporters in South Georgia coming to terms with the new GOP proposal, called the American Health Care Act, and learning they could be worse off.

Right now, Peek is paying $281 a month for his health policy through Obamacare. That’s $3,372 a year. He’s receiving $11,172 in government tax credits. (His wife, Debra, is on disability.)

Under the proposed new plan, his tax credit would shrink to about $4,000, a drop of $7,172 or 64 percent.

Peek, for his part, is disappointed, and concerned he might not be able to afford health insurance.

“The way they talked it was supposed to be better,” Peek said.

Some 77 percent of people in Schley — pronounced as Sly — voted for Trump in the presidential election. Trump drew widespread support from white, working-class people across the country. This county is 73 percent white, and the median household income is $39,375, well below the national figure of $56,516.

Blake Yelverton is taking a break with a burger that doesn’t cut any corners. Cheese and bacon and everything. He’s 23, a burly young man with a big red beard, and he works on his father’s cow farm.

“I don’t believe it’s the federal government’s job to provide health care,” he said. “It’s communism, socialism anyway.”

Yelverton hopes Trump trashes the whole thing, and he’s not too fond of the GOP plan being discussed in Congress either. “They’re doing a lesser evil of Obamacare,” he said.

His insurance?

“I’m on my parents’ plan,” he said.

So, Yelverton, it turns out, benefits from Obamacare. That’s because the law allows parents to keep kids on their insurance until age 26 — a widely-popular element of Barack Obama’s signature health law that Republicans intend to keep in their replacement plan.

Confronted with that information, he pauses for a moment.

“I haven’t been to the doctor in four or five years,” he said.

A recent analysis by Georgia State University estimated 750,000 Georgians could lose their health insurance under the proposal. Such a scenario could send the state’s rate of uninsured people — the third highest in the nation — soaring.

Georgia hospitals already provide $1.75 billion a year in free care to the uninsured. Trying to care for a flood of newly uninsured patients could force some already struggling rural hospitals to close their doors.

Trump voters in South Georgia come to terms with GOP health plan

 

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GOP’s Medicaid cuts could affect thousands in SC

A quarter of S.C. residents — 1.2 million of 4.8 million — now get their healthcare via Medicaid.

However, the GOP bill aims to slash federal Medicaid spending by 25 percent – or $880 billion – by 2026, resulting in 14 million fewer people enrolled in Medicaid, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bill.

The state now spends about 15 percent of its almost $8 billion-a-year general fund budget on Medicaid, where the state foots 29 percent of the cost and the federal government 71 percent.

Already, rising costs in that program have forced legislators to put more and more money into the program each year.

In 2011-12, for example, lawmakers committed $192 million of the state’s increased revenues — of $351 million — to Medicaid, more than half the new money. In next year’s budget, the state is considering spending $47 million more on Medicaid – or 13 percent of the added revenues the state has on hand.

“Almost a fourth of our population is enrolled in Medicaid, and with that comes the increased cost, and you've seen in the last few budgets, a large portion has been dedicated to healthcare, and really we have no control over that,” said state Rep. Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, who chairs the S.C. House budget panel that oversees healthcare spending.

Read more here: GOP’s Medicaid cuts could affect thousands in SC

 

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NYT: Fewer Americans would be covered under GOP health plan than by straight repeal

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/...th-gop-plan-than-with-simple-repeal.html?_r=0

The Congressional Budget Office recently said that around 24 million fewer Americans would have health insurance in 2026 under the Republican repeal plan than if the current law stayed in place.

That loss was bigger than most experts anticipated, and led to a round of predictable laments from congressional Democrats — and less predictable ones from Republican senators, including Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and John Thune of South Dakota, who told reporters that the bill needed to be “more helpful” to low-income people who wanted insurance.

But one piece of context has gone little noticed: The Republican bill would actually result in more people being uninsured than if Obamacare were simply repealed. Getting rid of the major coverage provisions and regulations of Obamacare would cost 23 million Americans their health insurance, according to another recent C.B.O. report. In other words, 1 million more Americans would have health insurance with a clean repeal than with the Republican replacement plan, according to C.B.O. estimates.

That's impressive to say the least. GOP stay trying to ruin lives.

 

[Scholar]

Is this how we get to single payer after this shyt storm hits? Nvm, America, folks will take it up the ass and keep voting for the same folks

 

[Regular_P]

Is this how we get to single payer after this shyt storm hits? Nvm, America, folks will take it up the ass and keep voting for the same folks

It's the only solution after ACA.

 

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GOP senator urges party to cancel House healthcare vote

Really sad!

 

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GOP senator urges party to cancel House healthcare vote

Really sad!

“His agenda of repealing ObamaCare has been hijacked by people who don't share his values, by people who don't share his desire to repeal ObamaCare. We do need to repeal it and this bill, unfortunately, doesn't repeal as much of ObamaCare as we need,” Lee added.

Reading that, it sounds like he's mad that not enough people will lose their insurance

 

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Reading that, it sounds like he's mad that not enough people will lose their insurance

Yeah, these sociopaths are truly something. I'm amazed that they're so blatantly against their constituents needs and no one really bats an eyelash. Things really need to change.

 

[Worthless Loser]

Scenario 1:
GOP bill passes House: Trump praises GOP members for getting it done along with other gloating and random bashing of Obamacare.
GOP fails to pass the Senate: Trump voices his disgust with GOP Senate members for not getting in line to pass it.

Scenario 2:
GOP bill fails in the House: Trump voices his disgust with GOP House members for not getting in line to pass it.

Either way expect to see more GOP division after the results of the votes.

 

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Reading that, it sounds like he's mad that not enough people will lose their insurance

These people are bought by the Koch brothers who want to dismantle all government. They're obsessed with getting rid of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

 

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alth-care leaders warn that repealing the Affordable Care Act would mean layoffs and cuts in local medical and addiction services - and, possibly, even the closure of the county's only medical facility.

Had to check.. and I was right. That county is getting rocked by heroin. They repeal this shyt and that hospital closes....

DO IT :doomed:

Blake Yelverton is taking a break with a burger that doesn’t cut any corners. Cheese and bacon and everything. He’s 23, a burly young man with a big red beard, and he works on his father’s cow farm.

“I don’t believe it’s the federal government’s job to provide health care,” he said. “It’s communism, socialism anyway.”

Yelverton hopes Trump trashes the whole thing, and he’s not too fond of the GOP plan being discussed in Congress either. “They’re doing a lesser evil of Obamacare,” he said.

His insurance?

“I’m on my parents’ plan,” he said.

So, Yelverton, it turns out, benefits from Obamacare. That’s because the law allows parents to keep kids on their insurance until age 26 — a widely-popular element of Barack Obama’s signature health law that Republicans intend to keep in their replacement plan.

Confronted with that information, he pauses for a moment.

“I haven’t been to the doctor in four or five years,” he said.

And folk think their gonna be able to talk it out with these people

These people need to just die truthfully..

 

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