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    370 healthcare groups send letter to Congress urging prior authorization reform in Medicare Advantage

    urging passage of the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 (H.R. 3107),

    a bipartisan bill to protect Medicare Advantage beneficiaries from prior authorization requirements that needlessly delay or deny access to medically necessary care.


    requiring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to regulate the use of prior authorization by Medicare Advantage plans.

    The bill would also increase transparency by mandating that health insurance plans report to CMS their prior authorization usage rate and the frequency with which they approve or deny coverage.


    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-3hg091119.php

    My bet: The Repugs will block in the House, and if it passes, MoscowMitch will kill it.

    Recall that the Repugs used Medicare Advantage to partially privatize Medicare and shift $100Bs to BigInsurance.

    M/A costs 10% or more to taxpayers and than standard Medicare.




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    Bring on 2020 with House Republicans planning to run on Obamacare repeal

    Coming out of their weekend retreat, House Republicans unveiled their big 2020 initiative to win back disaffected voters ... Obamacare repeal.

    That will be the key element to their other main goal of … reducing the debt.

    "The first thing we would do is make sure our debt is taken care of," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. They would do it by repealing the Affordable Care Act, he said. A

    "We want to protect pre-existing conditions.

    We want to lower the cost of health care while raising quality overall,"

    "health care is an important issue for us to lean in on."

    Republicans reworking their 2017 "replacement" bill

    to "make it even stronger."

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/16/1885840/-Bring-on-2020-with-House-Republicans-planning-to-run-on-checks-notes-Obamacare-repeal?detail=emaildkre

    better, cheaper, covering everybody! On Day One!




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    Trump Admin launches ACA Replacement Plan in case they win #TexasFoldEm: "Obamacare Sucked Anyway!"

    The Health 202: White House may have given up on health plan it says it is writing

    A former White House staffer and several congressional aides and activists say they’ve been told

    the Trump administration has moved away from seeking an Obamacare replacement and

    is instead focused on damage control should a judge rule next month to topple the entire law.


    Trump made waves earlier this year by promising to come up with yet another Obamacare replacement plan, but

    a high-stakes case before the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is threatening him and other Republicans seeking reelection with a political wild card, as

    it could result in millions of Americans losing coverage as the election season heats up.

    “There seems to be a decreasing appe e for the ‘big plan’ reveal
    and instead

    just focusing on responding to the 5th Circuit with prudence and a minimum of hysteria,” a former senior administration official wrote me in an email yesterday.

    , in order to "give up" on a replacement healthcare plan, they would've had to be working on one in the first place...which is likely complete nonsense.

    But conservative groups say they’ve not been told about an Obamacare replacement plan,

    even though their buy-in would almost certainly be sought by the White House.

    “Although we’ve had discussions with the White House on health care,

    we’ve heard nothing from the White House on a health-care plan,”

    said Jason Pye, vice president of legislative affairs for FreedomWorks.

    CMS Administrator Seema Verma posted the following entry on the official CMS blog:

    Thank Obamacare for the Rise of the Uninsured


    The U.S. Census Bureau released their annual report on health insurance coverage in the United States which shows the number of uninsured Americans rose from 2017 to 2018.

    As usual, critics of President Trump have been quick to blame the Administration’s healthcare policies for this increase.

    But a review of key facts suggests the rising uninsured rate stems largely from Obamacare’s failure to deliver affordable health insurance premiums and has created a new class of uninsured.

    While Obamacare promised affordable health insurance for every American, and even penalized those who refused to buy it, the law did nothing to control underlying costs


    This is a flat-out lie.


    The ACA didn't do enough to control costs,

    but it does include some provisions...including, I should note,

    the very Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision which is resulting in
    nearly $1.4 billion in excessive premiums being rebated back to the policyholders this year alone,

    for a total of
    over $5.3 billion being rebated since 2012.

    ..Average premiums went up by another 26 percent in 2018.

    The chutzpah here is incredible.

    Yes, average unsubsidized premiums did increase around 26% in 2018 (officially it was projected to be around 29%,

    but the biggest single reason for that 26% increase was Donald Trump's decision to cut off CSR reimbursement payments.

    Fully half of the 2018 hikes were due specifically to the CSR cut-off...

    according to many of the insurance carriers themselves in their official actuarial rate filings.



    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/17/1886141/-Trump-Admin-launches-ACA-Replacement-Plan-in-case-they-win-TexasFoldEm-Obamacare-Sucked-Anyway

    "The chutzpah here is incredible." The DISHONESTY here is automatic, relentless Repug behavior

    So the Repug s in the 5th Circuit can destroy the legality of ACA, which would put Trash in DEEP with no replacement

    OR

    5th Circuit can rule the ACA is LEGAL
    Last edited by boutons_deux; 09-18-2019 at 01:32 PM.

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    Trash wonderfully desperate to something positive.

    Trump spouts off incomprehensible Obamacare joke before attacking John McCain

    “We eliminated Obamacare’s horrible, horrible, very unfair, unpopular individual mandate,” he said.

    “A total disaster.

    That was a big penalty.

    Where you paid a lot of money for the privilege of not having to pay a lot of money for the privilege of having no health care.

    You paid not to have healthcare.

    It was a penalty.

    How it ever held up in the Supreme Court I don’t know but it did and we just got rid of it.

    We did it the old-fashioned way.

    We vastly expanded options including short-term plans and health reimbursement agents —

    arrangements which are incredible.

    Many of these are up to 60% less expensive than Obamacare.”

    At this point, Trump paused and seemed to wait for people to laugh — and no one did.

    “Nobody got that,” he said. “Obamacare. I said Obamacare.”

    “We did a great job in running it,

    we unfortunately had one vote the middle of the night, just one thumbs down,

    that wasn’t good after years and years of campaigning,”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-spouts-off-incomprehensible-obamacare-joke-before-attacking-john-mccain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29


    Trash's baby talk and early childhood vocab is getting more impoverished. His brain is ed



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    Fox News Immediately Cuts Off Dr. Oz From Praising Medicare for All



    Dr. Oz attempted to use his platform to inform viewers about Medicare for All—at least for the moment he could.

    Then he was brutally SILENCED by the MAINSTREAM MEDIA for his DANGEROUS IDEAS about AMERICANS no longer going BROKE after a MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

    “Half of the doctors in America want Medicare for All, that’s how much of a crisis we have,” Oz said before getting cut off by Brian Kilmeade.

    “Doctor...that’s a whole different conversation,” Kilmeade interrupted,

    https://splinternews.com/fox-news-immediately-cuts-off-dr-oz-from-praising-medi-1838742233?utm_source=splinter_newsletter&utm_medi um=email&utm_campaign=2019-10-03




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    Medicare Advantage was/is a scam to shift $100Bs to BigInsurance.

    Trash will expanding privatization of Medicare behind the LIE of "market based"

    Trump Launches ‘Market-Based’ Attack On Medicare

    new executive order calls for “market-based” pricing, which

    would drive up costs for everyone with Medicare,

    eviscerate traditional Medicare, and

    steer more people into for-profit “Medicare Advantage” plans.

    the slew of government audits revealing that many Medicare Advantage plans pose
    “an imminent and serious risk to the health of… enrollees.”

    They also overcharge taxpayers to the tune of $10 billion a year.

    CMS’ limited audits have highlighted major issues with Medicare Advantage plans.

    the problems with Medicare Advantage may be even more far-reaching than the government audits indicate.

    The Medicare Advantage plans have
    failed to turn over reliable and complete claims data, as required by law.

    Without this data, it’s not possible to know whether they are covering the health care services they are paid to provide or to oversee them to the extent necessary.

    several serious instances of malfeasance by these corporate Medicare insurers—including UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Cigna and Humana—in a
    detailed letter they sent to Verma.

    The insurers’ wrongdoings are systematic.

    They are ongoing.

    They endanger the health and financial well-being of millions of people.

    They undermine the financial integrity of the Medicare program and harm the U.S. Treasury.

    Yet, to date, CMS has failed to develop, let alone execute, a plan to hold these insurers accountable for violating their legal obligations and to ensure their members get the health care to which they are en led.

    Tens of billions in overcharges are one big problem. Medicare Advantage plans have been overcharging the government for their services for many years now, by claiming that their members are in worse health than they actually are in order to increase payments.

    To make matters worse, they have refused to pay back the tens of billions in overpayments that the federal government has made to them. UnitedHealth successfully
    fought to keep the government from collecting this money.

    Government audits show that Medicare Advantage plans are
    inappropriately delaying and denying care and coverage to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of their members.

    This puts patients’ health and safety at risk.

    Thousands of people end up paying for care that should have been covered—or foregoing care altogether.

    https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-launches-market-based-attack-on-medicare/#

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    This is an example of how the Repugs/oligarchy plan to control the control with the Federal judiciary rather than through the unreliable, messy Congress

    A Federal Court May Soon Do What Congress Could Not: Obliterate Obamacare

    Thousands organized to save the Affordable Care Act in 2017. Now the entire law may be struck down when no one’s looking.

    any day now, aided and abetted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, dubya's Klown Priscilla Owen

    the Trump administration is poised to stick a knife in the heart of what remains of the Affordable Care Act.

    At minimum, this president will be throwing 20 million people who obtained insurance under the ACA off of their plans.

    The notoriously conservative appellate court will decide a challenge to a state-led effort to end the ACA once and for all, on the

    dubious legal theory that, when Congress chose not to kill Obamacare in 2017, it actually intended to kill the law.

    if the court he packed succeeds in destroying the ACA,

    it could be the single most consequential event of Trump’s presidency, and can sit right up there with

    the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,

    the travel ban, and

    the family separation policy

    as humanitarian catastrophes.

    The case is Texas v. United States,

    and it began as yet another Hail Mary lawsuit, brought by
    20 state attorneys general to kill Obamacare.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/obamacare-fifth-circuit-texas.html



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    U.S. heart patients cut back on life-saving drugs due to cost

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...Health+News%29

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    Trump really doesn't care about drug prices after all

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually has been working on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and

    her staff "spent months over the course of this year trying to get White House support for her measure

    to allow the government to negotiate prices for up to 250 drugs per year,

    with tough financial penalties for companies that refused to come to the table."

    Trump refused to work with her and is now instead bashing her efforts.

    “Pelosi and her Do Nothing Democrats drug pricing bill doesn’t do the trick," Trump tweeted Friday.

    "FEWER cures! FEWER treatments!

    Time for the Democrats to get serious about bipartisan solutions to lowering prescription drug prices for families."

    All of which is demonstrably false nonsense.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1901835



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    Comprehensive Wellness Profile

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    Mediterranean / DASH nutrition (they aren't diets)

    Plus Alternate Day Fasting

    ... is all you need to fix your diseased ass

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    Trump judges are coming after Americans’ healthcare —

    and Democrats have a plan to ensure the GOP pays the price




    GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to wage war on Obamacare again

    Already Democrats are racking up electoral victories to protect health care, winning key gubernatorial elections in Kentucky and Louisiana, where Democrats defeated candidates who have pledged to or already worked towards sabotaging the ACA.

    The major threat to the ACA this time around comes from a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several other right-wing state AGs.

    They contend that when Republicans repealed the individual mandate in 2017 as part of their tax cut bill,

    they made the entire law uncons utional because the mandate is “unseverable” from the other provisions

    conservative legal scholars ... have called this lawsuit ridiculous. Thanks, hole Texas

    multiple GOP-appointed judges have accepted this argument,

    with Bush-appointed Texas district judge Reed O’Connor ruling in favor of the plaintiffs.

    A recent appeal to the Fifth Circuit, heard by a panel of three judges appointed by Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, agreed with O’Connor that a $0 mandate was uncons utional,

    but ordered O’Connor to reconsider whether the entire law was unseverable —

    which all but ensures the case will drag out past the 2020 election.


    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-judges-are-coming-after-americans-healthcare-and-democrats-have-a-plan-to-ensure-the-gop-pays-the-price/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3313

    The oligarchy/Repug strategy is to destroy USA in the judicial branch because the legislative branch is much harder, therefore Repugs are forcing through 10s of ABA-unqualified, extreme rightwing political hacks, young as Federal judges who will over Americans for decades, long after Trash, Moscow Mitch, and Repugs are dead.





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    In just a couple of tweets, Republican Senate leader John Cornyn of Texas demonstrated exactly what

    his party wants to do about the health care crisis: Nothing.

    He started by
    recognizing a stark symptom:

    "In 2017, the prices paid to hospitals for privately insured patients averaged 241 percent of what Medicare would have paid."



    Senator John Cornyn
    @JohnCornyn

    Not Medicare for All! https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1210308751749570560 …

    ==================

    Repugs are using their political s in Federal judge robes and Exec branch rules to destroy ACA, and have no intention of any health care plan at all.


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    Exclusive:

    Drugmakers from Pfizer to GSK

    to hike U.S. prices on over 200 drugs



    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...Health+News%29

    ... like cable and bank fees that rise simply to suck in more profits,

    BigPharma raises the drug prices because they can and nobody stops them, they simply want more profit.

    I'm not worried, Don The Con Trash is on the case.



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    Another huge problem that Trash and Repugs fixed

    High cost of insulin has life-threatening implications for patients with Type 1 diabetes

    The most commonly used forms of insulin cost 10 times more in the U.S. than in any other developed country

    For the 1.3 million patients with Type 1 diabetes, insulin is as vital as air and water. Some patients are rationing insulin or switching to cheaper forms without proper supervision. We cannot wait to act." Wrong! BigPharma profits before human suffering and life

    There have been many recent reports of deaths in patients with Type 1 diabetes because of the lack of affordable insulin.

    The No. 1 reason for the high cost of insulin is the presence of a vulnerable population that needs insulin to survive.

    This population is willing to pay almost anything to have access to a lifesaving drug, and manufacturers know it."

    "The price of insulin is a stark and troubling example of what's happening with other prescription drugs, and it highlights a systemic problem with how drugs are priced, compared with just about every other commodity."

    https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200102/High-cost-of-insulin-has-life-threatening-implications-for-patients-with-Type-1-diabetes.aspx

    Just another reason why America sucks itself into being ed and un able.

    Any leading politicians screaming about insulin prices KILLING people? Any major networks running exposes?

    BigPharma's political donations are actually protection money, often through dark channels, and same is true for the entire oligarchy.



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    bag Repugs, many of them rurals, don't give a about rurals is hole Texas

    LABOR AWAY

    Family planning clinics and abortion clinics across Texas have been closing at an alarming rate.

    Rural hospitals are shuttering their maternity wards.

    For many Texans, this means traveling hundreds of miles just to access basic reproductive health care services.


    Like many other parts of rural Texas, Ozona is caught in the middle of a devastating health care crisis.


    More than one-fifth of Texas’ 254 counties have only one doctor or none at all.

    At least 20 small-town hospitals have closed since 2013.

    Ozona lost its hospital in 1996, leaving it to rely on a single health clinic that offers limited reproductive health services.

    People seeking basic preventative services or prenatal check-ups typically need to make a 170-mile round trip drive to San Angelo, a mid-sized city to the northeast.

    Pregnant patients have to make the same hour-long drive to give birth.

    The closest abortion clinic is in San Antonio, a 400-mile round trip.

    When it comes to reproductive health care services, the area is “a medical wasteland,”

    The reproductive health care problem in Ozona is notably pernicious, but

    millions of rural Texans lack access to these services.

    More than half of Texas counties have no OB-GYN.

    Of the state’s 158 remaining rural hospitals, just 66 still deliver babies,

    Dramatic (Repug) budget cuts in 2011 shuttered more than 80 publicly funded family planning clinics across the state.

    More than half the abortion clinics closed following sweeping anti-abortion legislation passed in 2013.

    (The legislation was subsequently struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, but most haven’t reopened.)

    https://www.texasobserver.org/labor-...h-rural-texas/


    So Texas' so-called Christians and their evangelical Sharia are hurting WHITE rural Texas as badly if not more than urban blacks and browns.




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    Economists 'Surprised Americans Aren't Revolting' Over $8,000 Tax They Pay Each Year Due to For-Profit Healthcare System

    The payments made to the U.S. healthcare system are

    "like a tribute to a foreign power, but we're doing it to ourselves."


    https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-each-year-due

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    Health Care Paperwork Cost U.S. $812 Billion in 2017, Four Times More Per Capita Than in Canada

    health care bureaucracy cost Americans $812 billion in 2017. This represented more than one-third (34.2%) of total expenditures for doctor visits, hospitals, long-term care and health insurance.

    “Americans spend twice as much per person as Canadians on health care.

    But instead of buying better care, that

    extra spending buys us sky-high profits and useless paperwork.

    Before their single-payer reform, Canadians died younger than Americans, and their infant mortality rate was higher than ours.

    Now Canadians live three years longer and their infant mortality rate is 22% lower than ours.

    Under Medicare for All,

    Americans could cut out the red tape and

    afford a Rolls Royce version of Canada's system."


    https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/07/health-care-paperwork-cost-us-812-billion-2017-four-times-more-capita-canada?cd-origin=rss


    America will NEVER get a national health/insurance system.

    The propaganda from and politicians owned by American health care for profit are too convincing, too totally untouchable.

    America is ed and un able, and is so dumbed down it allows itself to be raped their entire working years and to be impoverished by Capitalism.




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    Trash and his FDA continue to hold drug prices down

    FDA approves Blueprint's stomach cancer therapy priced at $32,000 per month


    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blueprint-fda/fda-approves-blueprints-stomach-cancer-therapy-priced-at-32000-per-month-idUSKBN1Z82LP?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm _source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fe ed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News% 29

    BigInsurance will pay the $32K/month and cover the cost by raising price of insurance.



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    Efforts to fix surprise billing, drug costs meet election year and McConnell brick walls

    There is bipartisan agreement in Congress that doing something to help people

    faced with
    surprise medical bills and

    unsurprising massive prescription drug costs

    would be a great thing—and not just for their reelection prospects, but an actual good thing for actual people.

    But we can't have nice things anymore, and that's because of the

    for-profit healthcare industry and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

    "It's a bill almost everyone wants passed,

    except a handful of people and the private equity firms that benefit from it."

    McConnell is among that handful of people.

    And if he's against this effort, he's even more against doing something about drug costs.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1910062



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    Trash/Repugs expect they will LOSE, giving the Dems a big 2020 campaign push

    The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to not rule on Obamacare until after the 2020 election

    Democrats have asked the Supreme Court to hear a case that could determine the fate of Obamacare.

    The Trump administration wants the court to wait.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/11/21061595/trump-administration-obamacare-supreme-court-2020-election

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    ER doctor confronts Mike Pence in Iowa about Trump Medicaid cuts, and Pence fails spectacularly

    he
    encountered something that made him visibly uncomfortable—a well-informed citizen.

    Dr. Davidson directly and respectfully asks him about the administration’s just-announced cuts to Medicaid as well as planned cuts to Medicare. Noting that a large number of his patients depend on Medicaid for their treatment in his ER, he asks Pence whether cuts to the program are a “good idea.”

    The cuts referred to by Dr. Davidson are

    a
    policy change quietly implemented last week by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

    Under the new policy, bearing the Orwellian le of the “Healthy Adult Opportunity” initiative,

    block grants for Medicaid funding are to be provided to states.

    This would undo 55 years of Medicaid policy, and,

    as Medicaid and Medicare
    advocates contend,

    will allow individual states the flexibility to weaken the program.

    By imposing a regime of block grants,

    the federal government would allow states to decide who and who not to cover, and what to cover at all.

    The “block grant” initiative will

    also make the process more complex and confusing for Medicaid-eligible people,

    another deliberate effort by

    the Trump administration to reduce health care provided to poorer Americans. As noted
    here:

    Spending caps would lead to limits on enrollment, which are barriers to care,

    would limit payment for care across all beneficiaries (even if the policy focuses on the expansion population), and

    would limit all types of benefits coverage —

    the opposite of furnishing medical assistance.


    Pence at first says he hasn’t heard about any cuts to “Medicare,”

    then pivots to what he did as Governor of Indiana, specifically his decision to
    accept Medicaid expansion for his home state under the Affordable Care Act.

    he then resorts to some mushy non-verbiage about “reform” of the Medicaid system.

    Davidson, undeterred, proceeds to pepper Pence with questions about the cruelty of administration policy towards the poor. Pence is visibly unable or unwilling to justify that policy

    Davidson doesn’t let him get away with that, and tells him he’s referring to the actions of the Trump administration.
    “When I told him he is putting my patients' lives at risk,

    @VP deflected and denied knowledge of the policy.

    He either doesn't understand, or

    doesn't care

    about the impact of this administrations' policies on patients everywhere.”

    “People I see in the emergency department that can't get primary care doctors, once they got Medicaid they could get primary care doctors and stay out of the ER, they work more, they actually contribute to our community more,” he adds.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/2/1915906/-ER-doctor-confronts-Mike-Pence-in-Iowa-about-Trump-Medicaid-cuts-and-Pence-fails-spectacularly?detail=emaildkre

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    Jump in employment seen among Medicaid expansion enrollees, especially the most vulnerable

    Healthy Michigan Plan enrollees experienced a six-point increase in employment or student status in one year, while employment for all Michiganders stayed the same

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/mm-u-jie012820.php

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    Expanding Medicaid in All States Would Save 14,000 Lives Per Year

    https://www.americanprogress.org/iss...ives-per-year/

    Repugs refusing to expand Medicaid AND cutting Medicaid are veritable manslaughter.



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    Two Million Americans Lost Health Coverage/Access In Trump’s First Year

    “We hear a lot about the ACA being ‘undermined.’

    While we found the ACA isn’t unravelling,

    there are real consequences to some of the (
    Trash/Repug) policies that have been put in place.

    We see that you have these

    policy changes that are affecting millions of peoples’ ability to get insurance, and

    millions of people forgoing care because they can’t afford it,”

    The researchers note several policy changes in 2017 that could have had effects immediate enough to see within the same year, such as

    shortened enrollment periods,

    cuts in advertising and navigator funding, and

    reductions in payments to hospitals.

    They also note

    widespread confusion during the “repeal and replace” battle,


    when a quarter of Americans believed the ACA had been at least partially repealed.

    low-income residents of states that did not expand Medicaid were the hardest hit by the reversal,

    while those affected in expansion states were mostly middle-income residents who were eligible for the exchanges.

    In non-expansion states, the decrease in insurance coverage and healthcare access was four to five times greater than in expansion states.

    “Medicaid expansion seemed to be a really great way for states to insulate themselves from some of the damage of these federal policies,”

    “Since 2017, the split
    between white and black,
    between rich and poor,
    urban and rural,
    renters and homeowners–

    all of these disparities are getting wider again.

    https://scienceblog.com/513904/two-m...nceBlog.com%29

    iow, Trash/Repug destructive policies prevent people from getting health, so people suffer and die DIRECTLY from Trash/Repug policies to spite Obama/ACA

    iow2, Trash/Repugs are GUILTY of negligent manslaughter



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