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Democrats push for bipartisan plan to slash health care
Republican Senate health proposals go from bad to worse
via fightbacknews.org
San José, CA - On July 19, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said that the Republican plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or ACA (also known as Obamacare), without a replacement would leave 32 million more Americans without health insurance. The Republican Senate leadership put forward this bill, officially known as the “Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017” after their "Repeal and Replace” bill could not muster 50 Republican votes.
The Republican Senate repeal and replace, named the Better Care Reconciliation Act, only had support of 12% of Americans according to public opinion polls after the CBO said that it would leave 22 million more Americans without health insurance. It was opposed by a broad swath of establishment groups such as the American Medical Association, the AARP, hospital associations, and after the Cruz amendment was added, even major health insurance companies.
In addition to taking health insurance from 32 million more Americans after ten years, the Republican Senate repeal only bill would double premiums for individual health insurance policies. In ten years, 75% of the American population would not have any health insurance companies offering individual plans where they lived.
The Republican Senate repeal of the ACA would cut taxes on high income people and health insurance companies by $613 billion over ten years. In addition, large businesses would save over $100 billion that they now have to pay under the ACA if they don’t provide health insurance for their workers. To pay for these tax cuts for the rich and corporations, more than $800 billion would be cut from Medicaid, cutting 19 million people from health insurance. In addition, more than $600 billion of subsidies to buy health insurance would be cut, causing 23 million more Americans to lose their health insurance.
Altogether the repeal would save the federal government almost $500 billion over the next ten years, which Senate Republicans hope to use to cut taxes even more for the rich and big business.
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The Bullet: Privatizing Healthcare: More Private Funding of Hospitals
via socialistproject.ca
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports that total expenditures on Ontario hospitals increased to $23.7-billion in 2016. This is an increase of 2.4% since 2015 and 6.1% since 2012. While provincial government expenditures increased 4.7% over the four years between 2012 and 2016, private sector expenditures on hospitals increased at a much faster rate - 15.8%. That is more than three times the percentage increase of the provincial government increases.
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The Bullet: Privatizing Healthcare: More Private Funding of Hospitals
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Single Payer, Meet All Payer: The Surprising State That Is Quietly Revolutionizing He
One unheralded reason for Trumpcare's many difficulties was a sea change in public opinion. A new Associated Press poll finds that 62 per cent now agree the federal government has a responsibility to provide health coverage to all Americans, up from 52 per cent in March. Republicans looking to take away coverage ran headlong into this wave of support for a bigger governmental role in health care.
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What a Medicare March Could Do
A waste of time, money, and energy. Boring. Ineffective. These arguments against national protest marches appear whenever an organization calls for a major mobilization. On cue, they resurfaced following Dustin Guastella's proposal in Jacobin for a national Medicare-for-All march.
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Bernie Sanders pushes universal health plan in wake of Republican repeal failure
Bernie Sanders has spent the first months of the new Congress defending Barack Obama's health reforms as Republicans vowed to repeal them. But after the GOP's seven-year drive to eliminate the Affordable Care Act collapsed on the Senate floor last week, Sanders is ready to introduce his own solution – government-run universal healthcare for all Americans.
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