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The new Senate bill's major provisions
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And make no mistake, people will die as a result of Obamacare repeal, commensurate with the number of people losing insurance:

Quote:On substance, Democrats are on firm footing. The Center for American Progress and Harvard researchers estimated that the Senate bill could cause between 18,100 and 27,700 additional deaths in 2026. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported that it’s “hard to pin down” exactly how many people would lose their lives, but acknowledged, “The available evidence suggests that there will be a human toll from an increase in the number of uninsured.... In broad strokes, Sanders’s assessment that thousands more would die annually appears to be supported by the data.” PolitiFact similarly “found ample evidence in the academic literature to suggest that legislation on the scale of the House bill would produce ‘thousands’ of additional deaths.” It’s also just simple logic that being uninsured imperils one’s health, which can lead to death (an obvious example being someone discovered to have late-stage cancer, which could have been caught earlier through a routine medical checkup)..
Democrats Are Warning That Trumpcare Will Kill People. Is It Convincing? | New Republic

A real life experiment came when Romney introduced Romneycare in Massachusetts, which increased coverage and mortality declined.
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RE: The new Senate bill's major provisions - by stpioc - 06-29-2017, 07:03 PM

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