The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued a report on the likely effects of Trumpcare.
It said it would save over $300 billion but 14 million Americans would have no health insurance next year. And by 2026, 24 million fewer Americans would have health insurance.
The GOP disagreed with the estimates.
CBO report: 24 million fewer insured by 2026 under GOP health care bill
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/cbo-report-health-care/index.html
Since those losing health insurance will be poor and working-class families, expect these changes to have a negative effect on children.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The Republicans are preoccupied with trashing anything associated with Obama. They do not care about any social missions unless they yield profits.
They NEVER care about social missions. They care about tax cuts for the wealthiest, and cutting any regulations on businesses, even if those regulations protect the public and environment. That’s who they serve. That’s who they protect.
Republicans are intent on trashing anything that helps the 99%.
Here is a letter that I sent to President Trump. I’m sending his contact information so that many of you can also send him messages.
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Dear President Trump,
Please explain why the Republican health care plan is ‘wonderful”? Somehow, giving tax breaks to the wealthy and slowly dismantling Medicaid doesn’t have the allure to many that you find appealing.
Here is what the New York Times has to say:”
BREAKING NEWS
24 million would lose insurance under the G.O.P. health bill within a decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found
Monday, March 13, 2017 4:22 PM EDT
Republicans had been bracing for what was almost certain to be a bleak accounting of the legislation’s projected effects. The American Health Care Act, as Republicans call their bill, was already facing widespread criticism from providers of health care, some conservatives, and a united Democratic Party. The numbers released Monday will only make it more difficult for Republicans to explain why their legislation would bring positive change to the country’s health care system.
I’d like to think that 24 million would disagree that this is a ‘wonderful’ plan. Please explain why it is considered by you to be so great.
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Write or Call the White House: Call them out for their lies!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call
PHONE NUMBERS
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
email:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
The White House just sent out an email asking for me to comment on the disaster of Obamacare. How disgusting. “Share your story’ is a place to click to write stories. I say contact the White House and tell why this plan is a disaster.
email: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
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Share Your Obamacare Disaster Story
The White House info@mail.whitehouse.gov
5:24 PM (31 minutes ago)
The White House
Obamacare has been a complete failure since the beginning, and things are only getting worse.
Today, President Donald J. Trump held a listening session to hear directly from Americans who have experienced significant hardship as a result of Obamacare’s poor coverage and rising prices.
President Trump wants to hear from hard-working Americans like you. How has Obamacare affected you? Share your Obamacare disaster story.
First 50 Days
During the meeting, one woman revealed that she had her health insurance cancelled three times since Obamacare became law. Another attendee had her insurance jump from $17,000 a year to a devastating $52,500 a year for her struggling family, while yet another said her health insurance now costs more than her mortgage.
Obamacare came packaged as the healthcare solution for all Americans. Instead, the country was given hundreds of pages of broken promises.
Millions of hard-working Americans have been impaired by soaring costs, cancelled plans, and overbearing mandates. As one of those innocent Americans, President Trump wants to hear your story about how this disastrous law has affected you and your family.
Share Your Story
And they will DO FAKE NEWS again and again. The DUMP needs to be DUMPED. IMPEACH.
The GOP will deny the CBO report – In fact they did yesterday:
“The one thing I’m certain will happen is CBO will say, ‘Well, gosh, not as many people will get coverage.’ You know why? Because this isn’t a government mandate,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said”
So it is not a mandate, it is okay for people not to have insurance.
Paul Ryan’s only agenda is to end every government run safety net (except those benefits that he gets from the govt.) If he can get away with it he’ll privatize medicare & social security.
Paul Ryan’s been waiting (not preparing or thinking, just waiting) for this opportunity for years.
From the Washington Post “Republicans’ new health-care bill is a mass transfer of income that cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans while cutting federal benefits for the middle and working class”.
http://wapo.st/2mkXPae
Two of Paul Ryan’s more memorable quotes:
“I don’t have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math.” -Paul Ryan, when asked to explain Mitt Romney’s tax plan and the claim that it would bring lower tax rates for all Americans while remaining revenue-neutral, Fox News interview, Sept. 30, 2012
“Rand makes the best case for the morality of democratic capitalism.” –Paul Ryan, praising the anti-democratic Ayn Rand, who once said, “Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom.” Salon.
And yet, Paul Ryan benefited from Social Security survivor benefits after his father died when Paul was 16. He received those benefits for two years, saved them, and used them to help pay for his college education.
His mantra seems to be “Hey, I got mine, the heck with the rest of you.”
William Burroughs had a much more succinct of saying the same thing, but my genteel southern upbringing prevents me from quoting him here.
Yes, GregB, I can imagine. I thought of something much cruder to say about Ryan, but I refrained.
Keith puts it into context in his angry way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTVM8MKSrI4
Far to mild Kieth. I would venture a guess, to say that a seventh grader could use that language without a trip to the principals office. But a general strike sounded good. A targeted boycott might even be better. .
I’ve been fighting writer’s block for the past few weeks trying to compare the rhetoric of so-called education reformers with health care policy. Perhaps this will help unblock it. The bottom line is that you can take almost any argument Diane makes in “The Death and Life..” and “Reign of Error,” replace the education jargon with that of health care and will find the arguments, pro and con, line up perfectly. In the conclusion of “The Death and Life…” she has a wonderful riff in which each sentence begins with “No other high performing nation…” Virtually every Ryan proposal (I write “virtually” only because I haven’t gone through it with a fine tooth comb yet, but it’s probably every) can be countered with that riff. This is not proposal grounded in real world, pragmatic experience. So if you’re well-versed in opposition to public school privatization, you’re prepared to counter the arguments that would destroy the Affordable Care Act.
Education and health are are only two areas that the “Austerians” want to privatize… the plutocrats who are underwriting the pro-austerity movement want to privatize everything… water, sewer, highways, you name a government service and someone has a scheme for making money through privatization…
How do you fight politicians who believe that tax cuts for the wealthy is more important than providing decent health care to the population?
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According to Slate here is what Ryan has to say:
Here’s Paul Ryan on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show last week:
CARLSON: …the overview here is that all the wealth basically in the last ten years is stuck to the top. That’s one of the reasons we’ve had all this political turmoil as you know. It’s so, kind of a hard sell to say yeah, we’re going to repeal Obamacare but were going to send more money to people who have already gotten the richest over the last ten years, that’s what this does, no? I’m not leftist, that’s just true.
RYAN: I’m not that concerned about it because we said we were going to repeal all of the Obamacare taxes and this was one of the Obamacare taxes.
Here is what Trump’s budget director Mulvaney has to say:
Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney also does not seem that concerned about it. How is it fair, ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos asked him on Sunday, for the plan’s massive tax cuts to go to the wealthiest while other Americans would be forced, by some estimates, to pay more for insurance? After some evasive back and forth, Mulvaney responded, essentially, with a shrug:
That’s the argument of a group of people who don’t like the bill. So we repeal the taxes in Obamacare. It’s what the Republicans have done from the very beginning. The fact that certain groups will pay less tax is not a — is not central to the issue. We’ve done this in a fashion that allows the people who cannot afford healthcare now to get it. I don’t know why some people are so dead set [against] other people benefiting at the same time.
Ready to projectile vomit, to quote somebody on this blog, perhaps another New Yorker.
Bernie Sanders just got nothing but strong applause in a town hall in McDowell county West Virginia a county that went 75% for Trump. Even applauded when he said coal was dying since the seventies.
What could have been, worse have the Democrats learned much? Not really!
The town hall meeting also brought to light the opioid problem with three big pharma companies dumping millions of pills into a West Virginia community of 400 souls. There are no addiction treatment centers and no oversight of the MDs who are contributing to the problem. According to Sanders, nothing in the Ryan plan addresses this new wave of addiction.
Where do the 14 million live? And the next 10 million? Identify number in each state?
Check cbo.gov. A citizen’s job it to make the effort to inform him or herself.
People need information organized in meaningful charts to comprehend the true impact of Ryan-trump GOP health care.
Click to access americanhealthcareact_0.pdf
See last two pages of report for graphs. I’m sure USA Today will have much easier ones very soon.
If 14M people go without health insurance then what else will happen negatively in this country. People will loose their jobs because they can not get medical services, do not remain healthy and get fired. The economy will reverse itself and go into the toilet again. Students will not be going to school so public education will continue to fall behind. Children will be born sick/weak because Mothers cannot get the prenatal care they need/deserve. The end could be endless if millions upon millions loose their health care. It is the domino effect. How stupid can Trump and his minions be? HOW STUPID???????
tRump also has HUD on the chopping block. [Got to find unnecessary things to cut so that there is more money for the military.] It provides subsidies for low income people who need help to pay for rent. HUD also subsidizes veterans who need assistance for rentals.
Imagine all those low income people back out on the streets with no health care. It is the Republican version of ‘heaven’ since the wealthy will be luxuriating in their walled off palaces.
This is how third world countries operate.
Medical providers will also lose their jobs as the customer pool shrinks, and those who do seek medical attention at ER’s across the nation but have no insurance and can’t pay themselves will burden the rest of us with paying for their care. Trump/Ryan care is a job and productivity killer that will suppress the economy.
More like 14 million people will now have to pay for insurance that others were previously footing the bill for. There I fixed the title for you. Obamacare is nothing more than another tax on the ever shrinking middle class. Contrary to the belief Obamacare does not help 99% of the population, instead it places a heavy financial burden on the heavily economically stressed middle class in order to subsidize healthcare for the unemployed working poor and low income earners. The kicker is that most of the plans offered under the ACA are catastrophic plans with low coverage and obscenely high deductibles. I pay four times what my mother pays for the exact same plan. Yet I am twenty years younger and in much better health. In the end Obamacare was and is nothing more than a windfall for greedy insurance companies. When everyone is mandated to have it by law and the coverage is little to none and the premiums are expensive as shit it does not take a genius to figure out who the real winners are and it sure as hell isn’t poor people or middle class people for that matter.
You do realize that the spikes in premiums were due to Marco Rubio slipping a poison pill amendment into an unrelated bill at the 11th hour, one that eliminated the Risk Corridors that had previously mitigated cost increases. Also, if you are so mad that some people paid to help their fellow citizens have insurance, which is how insurance works, then you must of course be livid about all of the corporate welfare and tax breaks and shelters that allow hyper wealthy entities (the swamp) to be free riders who do not pay their fare share for the benefits received by being in America.
Yes I am livid about corporate welfare. However, I am also livid that I lost my old plan that which was replaced by an ACA plan (forcefully for that matter) that covers far less and costs a hell of a lot more. I am also tired of being taxed to death solely because I am single and have acted responsibly by not producing a bunch of offspring all while individuals who have not acted responsibly and have not worked a single day; thus not paying a red cent in tax all year get refunds to the tune of several thousand dollars. I on the other hand, pay ten grand in taxes and when I file, I am told I need to pay more at the end of the year so that others can reap the benefits. When is enough enough!
I live in a white working class county that went 70% for Trump. Obama and Kasich expanded Medicaid and many, many more working people have access to health care because they have Medicaid.
As far as I’m concerned they voted against their own health care.
Apparently they don’t want health insurance since they just voted overwhelmingly to end it.
I don’t know Diane- I’m supposed to feel sorry for people who just voted against their own health care program? They can’t read a 10 minute fact sheet on these candidates and Medicaid? That’s too much to ask? I’m not on Medicaid and I read it.
They’ll all be shocked in 2018 when Medicaid expansion ends but whose fault is that? Not mine. I didn’t vote to end their access the health care- they did.
I say give the people what they want and lower income white rural people apparently don’t want health care, because they can’t afford it and without Medicaid they won’t get it. I accept their decision.
A couple of factoids for everyone. First, the increases in costs and the inaccuracy in the CBO analysis of the ACA are both due to the rethuglicans throwing the nation under the bus for purely political/ideological reasons. The cost increases were due almost entirely to Marco Rubio who eliminated the Risk Corridors that had been designed to abate that and had in fact done that previously. The reason the CBO was off on the ACA was that so many governors in rethuglican states refused to expand Medicare which caused lower enrollment numbers. The CBO projections assumed that governors would all put the interests of their constituents first, a naive assumption it turns out. That was the only CBO figure that turned out significantly different than projections. The blind faith the rethugs have in trickle down coupled with their pathological hatred of people banding together to solve their own problems by the use of their own government hill at the same time kow towing to the supposed needs of the hyper wealthy and business interests above all else are at the root of this absurdity.
Excellent, Jon!
Please don’t call it TRUMPCare… call it by GOPCare… those of us who want the country to become more progressive need to make it clear that the agenda being enacted is NOT the Trump agenda, it is the GOP agenda… getting Trump out without getting the GOP out will do nothing for progressives: we just had six years of that… and we need to get someone in the White House who REALLY supports public schools…
The White House is busy sending out its version of fake news. Just got the pile. It comes with a bunch of Tweets and videos that don’t copy.
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The White House info@mail.whitehouse.gov
9:56 AM
The White House
WHITE HOUSE MEMO:
President Donald J. Trump is committed to delivering relief to Americans struggling under the weight of Obamacare’s rising prices and onerous mandates. The President’s reforms will bring down costs and increase access to coverage for millions of Americans. It’s time to repeal the disaster known as Obamacare and replace it with a system that puts the interests of the people first.
GET INVOLVED
President Trump wants to know how Obamacare is affecting hard-working Americans.
Share Your Obamacare Disaster Story With President Trump