So does Trumpcare pass the house?

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Mitch McConnell Flat Out Refuses to Give Senate More Than 10 Hours to Review Health Care Bill

McConnell: I think we'll have ample opportunity to read and amend the bill.

Schumer: Will it be more than ten hours?

McConnell: I think we'll have ample opportunity to read and amend the bill.

Schumer: I rest my case.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...ealthcare-bill

That's how the oligarchy and its Repug s roll when passing $Ts in tax cuts camouflaged behind a murderous health care bill.

ACA had 100+ amendments, required months to get passed, even then BigInsurance got Lieberman to abort even discussion of public insurance option, and BigInurance/BigPharma WROTE ACA.

America is ed and un able.

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BigCorp oligarchy running the govt for BigCorp profit

Big Pharma, Insurance Lobbies Behind GOP’s Secret Health Care Bill

Altogether,

13 Republican senators, including McConnell, on average received $214,000 in contributions from health insurance and pharmaceutical companies from November 2010 to November 2016

, money and politics watchdog MapLight found by searching campaign finance reports.

Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch led the way with more than $471,000 in contributions from two lobbies that could potentially benefit from the bill, with McConnell not far behind with more than $433,00 in donations.

Ohio junior Senator Rob Portman was next on the list, totaling some $382,000,

followed by Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey at more than $354,000.

Just at the bottom of the list,

Texas senator and former GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz pulled in nearly $59,000 and Arkansas’ Tom Cotton was last at just under $29,000.

The report notes that even the other senators ... still received on average $115,000 from the two industries.

Schumer himself received more than $719,000 from the insurance lobby, and almost $510,000 from health professionals,

"We're going to have a meeting on the Senate floor, all 100 of us, with an unlimited amendment process," McConnell said.

"So there will be no failure of opportunity."

http://www.nationalmemo.com/big-phar...lth-care-bill/

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New polling numbers are out for 'Trumpcare', and they're a disaster for Republicans

only 35 percent of voters surveyed approve of the bill passed by the House last month. Nearly half of voters, 49 percent, disapprove of the bill.

Among Republican voters, 30 percent disapprove of the GOP health care bill. That is up from 15 percent of Republicans disapproving in early May.

[I]ndependent voters disapprove of the bill by a 2-to-1 margin: 26 percent approve, versus 53 percent who disapprove.

[F]ew voters are cheering for the legislation’s passage. Only 27 percent think it will make the U.S. health care system better, compared to 41 percent who think it will make the system worse. Just 17 percent think it will decrease costs for them and their families, while 46 percent think costs will increase.

the Republican lawmakers installed by those voters simply do not seem to care. At all.

Rather than listening to voters warning them about how disastrous the bill will be they've decided to hunker down and simply not tell anyone what will be in it from now on, rushing to pass a final version within days of public release so that the public won't have a chance to either review it or complain.

Why?

What's in this for Republican lawmakers?

It's going to cost them votes even among their own base, it's going to open them up to endless future campaign commercials each featuring individual Americans from their own states and districts who lost insurance, or care, or even loved ones due to the Republican effort, and

in return they get—what?

What's being promised to them that outweighs all that?

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/...tail=emaildkre
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/21/1673830/-New-polling-numbers-are-out-for-Trumpcare-and-they-re-a-disaster-for-Republicans?detail=emaildkre

Repugs know oligarchy's $Bs and ignorant rightwing/Repug/Christian Taliban tribes will never vote Dem, and at worst won't vote, but more typically always vote Repug, no matter how badly, how repeatedly, the Repugs them over.

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To help pay for its spending items, the Affordable Care Act obliged households that earn more than a quarter of a million dollars a year to pay a new 3.8-per-cent tax on their annual investment income, such as interest payments and capital gains, and a 0.9-per-cent surcharge on their ordinary income.

Like the legislation passed in the House, the Senate bill eliminates these taxes—a major handout to the mega-rich.

According to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the top 0.1 per cent of earners—i.e., households that make at least 3.9 million dollars a year—would receive

a tax cut of more than two hundred thousand dollars. and, unlike other aspects of the bill,

this one would go into effect immediately.

Over all, then, this bill largely sticks to the template laid down by House Speaker Paul Ryan and his colleagues.

It modifies, but doesn’t abolish, the principle that the federal government should provide financial assistance to middle-income people who aren’t covered by their employers.

It socks it to the poor, and

it gives a handout to the rich.—

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...E4MTkyNDQwNwS2

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Republicans Included A Sneaky Clause In Trumpcare Bill To Punish Democratic States

Traditional etiquette dictates that regardless of which political party is in power, their agenda should focus on benefitting the entire country.

The abominableTrumpcare bill was revealed today, and hidden inside it is a special provision that specifically targets blue states.

The new per capita expenditure is based on each state’s historical spending. Generally, Republican states have lower past expenses, and so under the new bill would receive less money.

To combat this, the GOP has added another rule, stating that a higher than average spending cap in a given state means the federal government can reduce its contributions by 2%.

Not coincidentally, the onus of this striction falls largely on Democratic states.

Republicans added an additional rule to help their states. The legislation states that the

2% rule will not apply to any states that have a population density of fewer than 15 people per square mile. Such rural states reliably vote Republican.

Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota are some of the states that meet the cut.

It’s a blatant handout to supporters, an effort to exclude Republicans from the 2% net.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/06...cratic-states/

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REPUG Arizona Already Tried What the GOP Wants to Do to Medicaid. It Was a Disaster.

Several years ago, Arizona froze Medicaid enrollment, as AHCA now proposes. The results were disturbing

In 2011, following the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, then–Arizona Gov. Janet Brewer cut the state’s Medicaid funding and froze enrollment.

Arizona blocked new enrollment in Medicaid and only allowed existing enrollees to continue receiving benefits if their income remained below the federal poverty line and they turned in their annual renewal paperwork on time.

A family that received a raise that lifted their income even slightly above the poverty line lost Medicaid coverage permanently, even if their income dropped below the line again the following year.

Between 2011 and 2013, 150,000 adults on Medicaid in Arizona, nearly two-thirds of the childless adults in the program, lost coverage. Over those months I spent at the hospital, many of the patients presented their own horror stories after losing Medicaid.

The Senate’s health care bill freezes Medicaid enrollment, preventing new poor families from signing up

Like Arizona’s 2011 freeze, if a patient goes off Medicaid, she’s barred from re-enrolling in later years, regardless of her financial or medical status. In particular, the federal cap on Medicaid spending will place more financial pressure on the states to rein in costs.

The end result is that, like Arizona, more states will be forced to restrict Medicaid eligibility, cap enrollment, and cut health benefits.

Arizona expanded Medicaid coverage in 2013 following the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Commenting on Arizona’s decision to

expand Medicaid, Brewer said

“It saved lives,

it insured more people,

it brought money into the state,

it kept rural hospitals from being closed down.

And today there are tens of thousands of people that are very, very grateful.”

What I care about most as an aspiring surgeon is that my patients have the peace of mind that, regardless of their incomes, locations, or medical conditions,

they won’t have to decide between their health or their homes.

If the Senate passes this bill, more Americans are likely to have to face that impossible choice.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health..._the_ahca.html

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the draft contains only $2 billion for opioid-related programs, a number that could easily be boosted to win over Midwestern Republicans.

But other gaps will be much harder to overcome, particularly with conservatives demanding a fuller repeal of Obamacare and moderates uneasy about the phaseout of the original law’s Medicaid expansion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...lth-bill-talks

Ayn Rand Paul and Krazy Kruz say the bill isn't mean, nasty enough. KY, TX.

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 The Senate GOP Isn’t Fixing Health Care. It’s Waging Class War.

A draft bill released Thursday offers tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and the elderly.

It just makes Obamacare worse. And while the basic structure of Obamacare survives—albeit in withered form—the Senate bill radically reshapes the traditional Medicaid program, which covers 59 million Americans.

It’s a tax cut for the rich paid for by gouging coverage for the poor and the elderly. One of the most significant tax cuts is on investment income earned by people making more than $200,000 a year.

Pharmaceutical companies, insurers, and other corporations also benefit from tax cuts in the bill.

(By the way, the 13 men responsible for writing it received an average of$214,000 in campaign contributions from insurance and pharmaceutical companies between 2010 and November of last year.)

https://www.thenation.com/article/th...ing-class-war/

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Because that means insurance companies would no longer be required to cover

critical preventatives services like

mammograms,

colon cancer screenings,

vaccinations,

check-ups.

No longer required to cover

prescription drugs,

pregnancy and childbirth,

emergency room visits and more.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/22/1674202/-Here-s-the-simplest-takedown-of-the-Republican-scheme-to-take-away-health-care-from-millions?detail=emaildkre

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Republicans Would Cut Services That Reduce Abortions

"It strikes me as odd that the people who are ideologically driven to reduce abortion in this country

are going to reduce the very services that make abortion unnecessary.

So, hundreds of thousands of women got their birth control through Medicaid coverage because it was a preventive service,

and as a result of that,

we've seen the lowest number of abortions in this country since it became legal."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41052-by-defunding-planned-parenthood-republicans-would-cut-services-that-reduce-abortions

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One has to wonder if they are setting it up to fail.

They know they can't do anything like what they promised, so they are making all sound and fury signifying nothing so that the vulnerable ones can look like they did something.

What a bunch of cynical s.

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ER NO: Nevada Republican Calls ACA Repeal A LIE

“I cannot support a piece of legislation that takes away insurance from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Nevadans,” er said in a presser this afternoon.

Beyond the awful Medicaid cuts, er also doesn’t buy the argument that the way to bring down insurance premiums is to eliminate essential health benefits, which would result in “cheaper” policies that wouldn’t provide adequate coverage.

That’s not just bad policy, he says. It’s a lie, a dirty no-good lie

https://wonkette.com/619087/ er-n...a-repeal-a-lie

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as result, Pence goes out to destroy er

All Breaks Loose On Healthcare As Pence Allied PAC Launches Massive Ad Attack On Dean er

The super PAC that Vice President Mike Pence is allied with is getting ready to launch a seven-figure attack ad buy on Republican Sen. Dean er of Nevada


The fact that a PAC that a sitting Vice President is allied with is going to attack a vulnerable in bent member of their own party who is up for reelection next year because he won’t support a health care bill that is bad for the people of his state shows where the Republican Party is right now.

Trump and Pence’s friends are trying to make an example out of er to keep other Republicans in line.

The White House and company aren’t showing leadership.

They are using threats and gangland style intimidation tactics to scare members of their own party into line.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/...iticus+USA+%29

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America’s Hospitals Just Loudly Condemned The Senate’s TrumpCare Bill

“From the onset of this debate, America’s hospitals and health systems have been guided by a set of key principles that would protect coverage for Americans,” Rick Pollack, President of the American Hospital Association (AHA), said in a statement just released to the public.

“Unfortunately, the draft bill under discussion in the Senate moves in the opposite direction, particularly for our most vulnerable patients.”


http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/06...rumpcare-bill/

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The Secret Oligarchy/Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid

Here’s how the Senate Republican bill does it. The bill sets a per-person cap on Medicaid spending in each state. That cap looks innocent enough because it rises every year with inflation.But there’s a catch.

Starting 8 years from now, in 2025,

the Senate bill switches its measure of inflation – from how rapidly medical costs are rising, to how rapidly overall costs in the economy are rising.
Yet medical costs are rising faster than overall costs.

They’ll almost surely continue to do so – as America’s elderly population grows, and as new medical devices, technologies, and drugs prolong life.

Which means that after 2025, Medicaid will cover less and less of the costs of health care for the poor and elderly.

Over time, that gap becomes huge. The nonpartisan Urban Ins ute estimates that

just between 2025 and 2035, about $467 billion less will be spent on Medicaid than would be spent than if Medicaid funding were to keep up with the expected rise in medical costs.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...icaid_20170624

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As always, Repugs depend on the ignorance, stupidity, tribalism of their base to over their base

New poll shows majority of Americans are unaware Trumpcare slashes Medicaid

Just 38 percent of people polled knew the Republican health care bill makes major cuts to Medicaid.

https://thinkprogress.org/majority-o...d-bd1eb61c4eb0

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Senate GOP expected to add new penalties for the uninsured into their health bill

Senate Republicans are expected to revise their health bill early next week, adding in a provision that could lock Americans out of the individual market for six months if they fail to maintain continuous insurance coverage.

The six-month waiting period would fill a big policy gap in the current Better Care Act, which requires health plans to accept all patients — but doesn’t require all Americans to purchase coverage, as the Affordable Care Act does.

Experts expect that this would cause a death spiral, where only the sickest patients purchase coverage and premiums skyrocket.

Senate Republicans appear to have settled on a six-month waiting period as their replacement policy.

This means that those with a break in coverage would need to wait a half-year before they would be eligible to purchase an individual market health insurance plan.

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/24/158676...waiting-period

The vindictive, Repugs aren't done YET punishing and ing Americans

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Message to Sen. Portman: 220,000 Ohioans with substance abuse coverage will lose it if ACA repealed

a small group of Republicans worked with industry lobbyists to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that currently covers 2.8 million people with substance abuse disorders, including 220,000 Ohioans.

Roughly 10,000 people are expected to die from an overdose in Ohio alone this year, Sen. Portman. That’s more overdose deaths than the entire nation suffered in 1990.

Some of the treatments available under ACA plans include:

• Addiction evaluation
• Brief intervention
• Addiction treatment medication
• Clinic visits
• Alcohol and drug testing
• Home health visits
• Family counseling
• Anti-craving medication

“Of all the illnesses, this is one where we’ve seen very dramatic changes and where we stand to lose the most ground if we lose the ACA,”

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/...28Daily+Kos%29

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Kellyanne Conway Humiliates Herself With A Huge Lie About Trumpcare Medicaid Cuts

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to tell a giant lie when she claimed that people aren't going to be tossed off of Medicaid under Trumpcare,

She said,

“If you are currently in Medicaid if you became a recipient through the Obamacare expansion, you are grandfathered in.

We’re talking about in the future.

You know, Obamacare took Medicaid which was designed to help the poor, the needy, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, also children and pregnant women, it took it and it went way above the poverty line, opened it up to many able bodied Americans who should probably find other, who should at least see if there are other options for them.

If they’re able-bodied, and they want to work, then they’ll have employer-sponsored benefits like you, and I do.”http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/25/kellyanne-conway-humiliates-huge-lie-trumpcare-medicaid-cuts.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&ut m_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicu s+USA+%29

why the does the non-Fox media keeping giving this stupid, lying, weasel a national platform?

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Corrupt And Conflicted HHS Sec. Tom Price Falsely Claims CBO Is Wrong About Medicaid Cuts

Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, who was in the upper tier of wealth among those in Congress, said the CBO is wrong about the impact of Trumpcare cutting $800 billion plus from Medicaid.

Price said the CBO projections on coverage are wrong because: “Anybody’s ability to predict human behavior, without looking at the entire construct, is difficult.”

You probably guessed that Tom Price has some biases he’s not disclosing, and you would be right.

Price has investments in healthcare companies that raise “both ethical and legal questions.”

Here’s but one example from The Atlantic:

Price has also faced questions about his 2016 investment in the Australian biomedical firm Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. Price purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 of stock in the company, which has no approved drugs and has no notable presence in biomedical markets,

but has been buoyed by stock purchases from prominent Republicans with ties to President-elect Donald Trump, including New York Representative Chris Collins, who is the largest shareholder in the company and is also on its board.

Very wealthy men who know little to nothing about real Americans and their access or lack thereof to healthcare, are pushing tax cuts for themselves as healthcare for you.

Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post gave the HHS Sec

Four Pinocchios in May when Price was pushing a line about how they weren’t cutting spending in the House bill.

Kessler wrote,

“When you are reducing spending by more than $800 billion over 10 years, you can’t pretend you are boosting spending ‘every single year.’”

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/25/hhs-secretary-tom-price-falsely-claims-cbo-wrong-trumpcare-cutting-843-billion-medicaid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fee d&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Poli ticus+USA+%29

So the Repug strategy is to cut nearly $1T from Medicaid and LIE that they aren't cutting, aren't weakening Medicaid.

The Repug tribe will buy it, and suffer and die from it.

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More LIES from KAC

Kellyanne Conway Tells Addicts That They Need “Will” Not Healthcare Coverage For Treatment

Kellyanne Conway argued on ABC's This Week that the government needs to spend less money on treating opioid addiction, and instead addicts need to rely on "will" to get healthy.

"ObamaCare and else wise, poured money into crises like this and where are we?"


That really was an adviser to the President Of The United States suggesting that

while a crisis of opioid addiction ravages the country, the US should spend less money on drug treatment and instead rely on “will” to solve the problem.

Conway’s comments part of a pattern with the Trump administration.

The White House blames victims instead of solving problems.

According to Trump, poor people aren’t smart enough to be in his administration.

It has become a common belief among Republicans that people are poor because they refuse to work.

In this same This Week interview, Conway suggested that if people want health insurance, they should just get a job.

Addicts don’t any help getting clean because they lack the “will” to kick their addiction.

The Trump White House believes in blaming people, not helping them.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/06/...iticus+USA+%29

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For the Kock billionaires, Trash Care doesn't the poor, young, disabled hard enough nor fast enough

Conservative Koch network criticizes U.S. Senate healthcare bill

the Senate bill does not go far enough to dismantle former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law

“We have been disappointed that movement has not been more dramatic toward a full repeal,”

they want to see the Senate bill do more to roll back Obamacare's expansion of the Medicaid program for poor and disabled Americans.

They also contend the bill does not do enough to reform the U.S. healthcare system and cut costs.

Phillips said his organization is prepared to spend as much as $400 million before next year’s congressional elections to advocate for the network’s conservative causes.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-koch-idUSKBN19G0V3?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&u tm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics +News%29

Krazy Kruz and Ayn Rand Paul also want to screw the Medicaid, etc people harder and faster.