My cut and pasted post on FB this Wednesday Evening.
In case you missed it, the Senate voted 51 to 48:
1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and aid to rural hospitals.
2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare.
3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent's insurance till the age of 26.
4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision.
6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone.
Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs.
1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and aid to rural hospitals.
2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare.
3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent's insurance till the age of 26.
4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision.
6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal the Affordable Care Act.
For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone.
Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs.
Despite their assertions of this being an action to "repeal and replace," no viable alternative plan has been proposed.
The House votes Friday. As of this moment, no replacement exists.
Apparently, Speaker Ryan has had his phones cut off because of the volume of calls, so here is his mailing address:
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Fax: (202) 225-3393
Do you have diabetes, sleep apnea, been treated for cancer, heart disease, asthma, add your own pre-existing condition here, you are out. Make too much money for Medicaid but not enough for insurance, same thing. People are going to die because of this. I am just overwhelmed.
The House votes Friday. As of this moment, no replacement exists.
Apparently, Speaker Ryan has had his phones cut off because of the volume of calls, so here is his mailing address:
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Fax: (202) 225-3393
Do you have diabetes, sleep apnea, been treated for cancer, heart disease, asthma, add your own pre-existing condition here, you are out. Make too much money for Medicaid but not enough for insurance, same thing. People are going to die because of this. I am just overwhelmed.
posted by Celia | January 25, 2017
6 Comments:
I think this is where Congress and the White House release the death panels. Many complain about the new President but re-elected this dangerous Congress.
Words are not adequate, Celia.
Thank you so much for posting this. I'm angry and appalled.
From what I understand, this is a stage and not a final bill. Trump and Ryan have both said they don't want to get rid of the pre-existing conditions part of any bill. What they do, of course, who knows as some of the Congress are extremists-- far more than Trump. What Trump had said during the campaign was he wanted people to have the option of buying insurance across state borders, which would make for more competition. Once he said let Americans buy their drugs overseas also but I haven't heard that from him recently. Some states have very few options for insurance companies. It seems that having the states in control of much has been a mistake for those states run by Republicans who don't like any government program. Only time will tell what happens but you can bet lots of fear talk will be out there from the media. They really don't think or care what it does to people who are already scared.
The bill of the "pro-life" folks
If you read Hatties blog, you might go leave her a note.
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