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Brookings: 15 Million Will Lose Insurance Under House Bill

March 10, 2017 Buck Banks

15 million

A new Brookings Institution report suggests that at least 15 million people will lose their health care insurance under the House Republican plan currently being considered. Key finding: “Estimates could be higher, but it’s is unlikely they will be significantly lower.”

Healthcare Bill Drill

March 7, 2017March 17, 2017 Buck Banks

The GOP Health Care Bill was received with great disdain.
Lefties say it cuts too much, conservatives say it’s lame.
For 50 votes, they couldn’t repeal it,
With all of Congress, they can’t replace it.
But one thing’s certain — ’tis Democrats who’ll get the blame.

It’s Soooo Complicated!

February 28, 2017 Buck Banks

Donald Trump says Obamacare is overrated,
Whereas the Republican approach is understated.
In a month he’s learned one lesson,
And about this he ain’t jestin’:
It’s that healthcare reform is really “complicated.”

More Americans Want Trump to Focus on Healthcare First

November 18, 2016 Buck Banks

21%

Of Americans want Trump to focus on the healthcare system during his first 100 days in the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Jobs took second place with 16% of Americans hoping it would be Trump’s first agenda item, while immigration came third – picked by 14% of Americans.

About Half of Americans Think the Government Should Provide Healthcare

November 24, 2015 Buck Banks

51%

Of adults said the government should ensure the health care coverage of all Americans, according to a new Gallup survey released Monday. That is slightly more than the 47 percent of Americans who said it is not the government’s responsibility, though the difference is still within the poll’s margin of error.

Unexpected Obamacare Savings for Women Could Lead to Fewer Abortions

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Trish

The numbers are in for the Obamacare provision that ended women’s out-of-pocket expense for family planning, and they are huge, according to the policy journal Health Affairs, and quoted by Kaiser Health.

Women are saving a lot of money as a result of a health law requirement that insurance cover most forms of prescription contraceptives with no additional out-of-pocket costs…But the amount of those savings and the speed with which those savings occurred surprised researchers.

The study looked at out-of-pocket spending from nearly 800,000 women (sic) between the ages of 13 and 45 from January 2008 through June 2013. For most plans, the requirement began Aug. 1, 2012, or Jan. 1, 2013.

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Majority Now Want to Keep Obamacare

June 12, 2014 Buck Banks

53%

Of Americans oppose the Affordable Care Act, a new Bloomberg National Poll finds. Nonetheless, 56% favor keeping the law with perhaps “small modifications,” while 10% would leave it as is. That’s the highest level of acceptance yet.

An Underhanded Approach

July 26, 2013 Buck Banks

It must be true — it was said by a pundit:
The Republicans are out to confound it.
That old Obamacare
Has got ’em running scared —
They can’t defeat it, so they’ll try to unfund it.

That Day One Pledge from Romney

August 30, 2012August 30, 2012 Trish

I’d like to know what’s noble about making it harder for people to get health care.

David Axelrod, Obama campaign strategist, commenting on the number of times Republicans pledged to repeal health care reform during their convention. Axelrod noted that his daughter, Lauren, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven months, and without the reforms would be ineligible for insurance due to her pre-existing condition.

There’s No Such Thing As Not Paying for the Uninsured’s Healthcare

July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 Trish

We don’t have a “deficit” problem. We have a “we already pay for each other’s health care in the dumbest way” problem.

LOLGOP’s post on Facebook as rightwing outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act goes on and on. Since 1986, when Pres. Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, uninsured people were required treatment if they went or were taken via ambulance to a hospital emergency room.

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Brookings: 15 Million Will Lose Insurance Under House Bill

15 million

A new Brookings Institution report suggests that at least 15 million people will lose their health care insurance under the House Republican plan currently being considered. Key finding: “Estimates could be higher, but it’s is unlikely they will be significantly lower.”

Healthcare Bill Drill

It’s Soooo Complicated!

More Americans Want Trump to Focus on Healthcare First

21%

Of Americans want Trump to focus on the healthcare system during his first 100 days in the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Jobs took second place with 16% of Americans hoping it would be Trump’s first agenda item, while immigration came third – picked by 14% of Americans.

About Half of Americans Think the Government Should Provide Healthcare

51%

Unexpected Obamacare Savings for Women Could Lead to Fewer Abortions

Majority Now Want to Keep Obamacare

53%

Of Americans oppose the Affordable Care Act, a new Bloomberg National Poll finds. Nonetheless, 56% favor keeping the law with perhaps “small modifications,” while 10% would leave it as is. That’s the highest level of acceptance yet.

An Underhanded Approach

That Day One Pledge from Romney

I’d like to know what’s noble about making it harder for people to get health care.

There’s No Such Thing As Not Paying for the Uninsured’s Healthcare

We don’t have a “deficit” problem. We have a “we already pay for each other’s health care in the dumbest way” problem.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%