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To back up the statement in the previous entry in this thread, here is what full repeal would do:
Quote:The BCRA's failure has pushed McConnell toward a bold backup plan: a vote on a repeal-only bill that would give Congress two years to come up with a replacement. Since the bill would go through the budget reconciliation process, only certain aspects of the ACA could be repealed, but they are some of the most important: funding for tax credits to buy insurance, as well as for the Medicaid expansion, and the individual mandate to purchase insurance.
A similar idea taken up by the House in 2015 was scored by the Congressional Budget Office earlier this year. It projected that 32 million more people would go without insurance by 2026 than under the current system if there were no replacement in effect.
The CBO separately projected that 22 million and 23 million more people would be uninsured under the Senate and House replacement bills, respectively. Given the massive projected coverage losses, it's unclear whether the more moderate-leaning wing of the party would sign on to such a plan. Conservatives could also be repelled by the trade-off in voting to move such a bill forward for consideration..
Senate Republican health care bill, Obamacare repeal unlikely - Business Insider
32 Million people losing insurance is going to lead to numerous avoidable deaths. "Keep America safe!"
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Quote:Every 12 minutes. That's how often an American citizen dies due to lack of health care.
Trump gave a fiery speech yesterday ordering his Republican goons to repeal Obamacare at any costs - and the costs are turning out to be staggering. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Trump's plan will throw 32 MILLION Americans off health care and that will cost over 500,000 of them their lives over the next 10 years.
That will make Trump, the GOP and the people who voted for them, the greatest mass murderers in the history of this country - right up there with the worst in World history (would rank #12, actually). And why are they doing this, why do 4,000+ Americans have to die every month? Well, according to the Congressional Budget Office, taking health care away from 1 out of 10 people you see today will save us $473Bn - over 10 years. That's $47.3Bn a year and that does sound like a lot but there are 165M taxpayers so we each save $286.66 per year.
500,000 Thursday - Trump Orders GOP To Kill Over 4,000 People Per Month - Philip Davis | Seeking Alpha
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Quote:Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) is livid at the inability of the Senate to repeal Obamacare, and he knows exactly who to blame: the Republican women of the Senate. During a radio interview on a Corpus Christi station last Friday, Farenthold said he finds it “absolutely repugnant” that “the Senate does not have the courage to do some of the things that every Republican in the Senate promised to do.” Farenthold singled out female senators for opposing the repeal of Obamacare, before suggesting that if they were men, he’d ask them to settle things with a gunfight.
GOP congressman blames health care struggles on ‘repugnant’ Republican ‘female senators’
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08-25-2018, 03:39 PM
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Obamacare has reduced the number of preventable deaths, through two ways: - Partnership for Patients
- Getting more people insured
Quote:The agency is a part of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, and its report takes a preliminary look at a program called Partnership for Patients that was created by the health care law. The program aims to get 3,700 hospitals -- along with physicians, nurses, employers, patients, government officials and others -- to work together to cut preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent between 2010 and 2014 and to reduce hospital readmissions by 20 percent over the same period. The report found that "approximately 50,000 fewer patients died in the hospital as a result of the reduction in HACs (hospital-acquired conditions), and approximately $12 billion in health care costs were saved from 2010 to 2013." This occurred "during a period of concerted attention by hospitals throughout the country to reduce adverse events," the report said. Independent experts said the report is credible.
Barack Obama says health care law has led to 50,000 fewer preventable hospital deaths | PolitiFact
Quote:The researchers found that a lack of health insurance had a mortality hazard ratio of 1.40. In other words, they concluded that Americans without health insurance were 40% more likely to die than those with it, even after taking into account the individual’s “gender, age, race/ethnicity, poverty income ratio, education, unemployment, smoking, regular alcohol use, self-rated health, physician-rated health and body mass index”. The researchers calculated that in 2005, lack of health insurance resulted in 44,789 deaths of Americans age 18 to 64.
A 2002 study published by the Institute of Medicine found that 18,000 people died each year due to lack of health insurance. A study published by the Urban Institute put the figure at 22,000 deaths in 2006. But while estimates disagree, the researchers who produce them often do not. In a 2013 Politifact interview, the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.”
Will losing health insurance mean more US deaths? Experts say yes | US news | The Guardian
But to right-wingers, these large numbers ("Keep America Safe!") are just waved away as ideology (getting government out of healthcare) is waaay more important.
That's killing people with ideology.
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How refreshing, someone is actually taking on these right-wingers over their Obamacare BS:
Quote:Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday referred to "death panels," which was popularized almost a decade ago by Sarah Palin, saying they exist in the private health insurance market. "Actually, we have for-profit 'death panels' now: they are companies + boards saying you’re on your own bc they won’t cover a critical procedure or medicine," she wrote in a back-and-forth with the president of a conservative think tank on Twitter. "Maybe if the GOP stopped hiding behind this 'socialist' rock they love to throw, they’d actually engage on-issue for once."
Ocasio-Cortez says ‘death panels’ exist in private health insurance market | TheHill
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Quote:A study found that costs have kept 64% of Americans from seeking medical care. Millions of Americans are skipping their medications for the same reason. Avoiding needed medical care often has implications for people’s health and well-being. Of course, it may also ultimately force them to seek care in more expensive settings, like emergency departments or at advanced stages of the disease..
Americans bankrupted by health care costs: 4 questions answered
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Quote:Rosa Diaz was no stranger to hunger and stress and a throbbing pain in the gut that was usually nothing serious — gastritis, she had been told, or lactose intolerance. When she became ill on the evening of January 6, 2015, she figured it was the hot chocolate she’d been drinking with her family to celebrate El Día de Los Reyes. It was made with milk, but she finished it anyway, savoring every drop.
In the middle of the night, her oldest daughter, Diana, found her on the couch, clutching her belly and moaning. Diana half-carried her to the bathroom, offering her some Alka-Seltzer and a sip of Gatorade to wash the antacid down. Rosa started to shiver and cry. “Let me drive you to the emergency room,” Diana urged. “No, I don’t have insurance,” Rosa protested. “I just want to go to sleep. I’m sure I’ll feel better tomorrow.”
Rosa, a 43-year-old Mexican immigrant who became a US citizen in the 1990s, rarely saw doctors. She was employed through temp agencies, mostly working in factories and cleaning schools — jobs that didn’t offer insurance or pay enough to let her afford her own policy. Without realizing it, she’d become pregnant, and the fertilized egg had attached itself to her fallopian tube, instead of her uterus. The condition, an ectopic pregnancy, is extremely dangerous if not treated immediately.
Diana tucked a blanket around her mother and sat with her for a while, then went back to bed. Around 3 am, she heard her mother scream. Rosa’s fallopian tube had exploded, and three liters of blood — almost two-thirds of her total volume — was gushing into her abdomen. By the time paramedics delivered her to the Baylor University Medical Center emergency room in Dallas, her heart had stopped. When Diana thinks back on the night her mother died, and what was most on her mind, she still gets angry — “because instead of wanting to feel better, she was more worried about the cost.”
From 2012 through 2015, at least 382 pregnant women and new mothers died in Texas from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, according to the most recent data available from the Department of State Health Services; since then, hundreds more have likely perished. While their cases reflect the problems that contribute to maternal mortality across the United States — gross medical errors, deeply entrenched racism, structural deficiencies in how care is delivered — another Texas-size factor often plays a significant role: the state’s vast, and growing, problem with health insurance access.
About one in six Texans — just over 5 million people — had no health insurance last year. That’s almost a sixth of all uninsured Americans, more than the entire population of neighboring Louisiana. After trending lower for several years, the Texas rate has been rising again — to 17.7 percent in 2018, or about twice the national average. The numbers for women are even worse. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured women of reproductive age in the country; a third were without health coverage in 2018, according to a State Health Services survey. In some counties, mainly along the Mexico border, that estimate approaches 40 percent.
Public health experts have long warned that such gaps can have profound consequences for women’s health across their lifespans and are a critical factor in why the US has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. Texas’s maternal mortality numbers have been notably troubling, even as errors in key data have complicated efforts to understand what’s going on and led skeptics, including the governor, to question whether there’s really a crisis.
How Texas came to have the worst insurance gaps in the country is no mystery: It was an accumulation of deliberate policy choices by state lawmakers going back decades, driven largely by an aversion to government-mandated insurance and a desire to keep taxes low.
The extraordinary danger of being pregnant and uninsured in Texas - Vox
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I need to create a creative and provocative question based on the forum topics provided, which include the ACA, US healthcare, and politics. The goal is to ensure that the question stands out while adhering to content policies, especially regarding political persuasion. I want to make sure it's not targeted at any specific individual or demographic group, but still unusual and thought-provoking for the general audience. Let’s think of something engaging!Clarifying political content guidelines
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I believe Keynesianism, while influential, has not adequately addressed the complexities of modern economies. In an era of rapid technological advancement and global interconnectedness, can we truly rely on outdated economic theories to guide our fiscal policies? What if the real solution lies in embracing a hybrid model that incorporates both traditional and innovative economic frameworks?
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