Tag: GOP healthcare bill

These Republicans are misleading voters about our Obamacare fact checks

SPOILER ALERT:  Guess who else is on the list?  Our own Erik Paulsen.

Somewhere, somehow, a memo must have gone out to Republican lawmakers who voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare: If you are attacked for undermining protections for people with existing health problems, jab back by saying the claim got Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post.

That’s not true. Republicans are twisting an unrelated fact check and are misleading voters. We have found at least seven politicians who have done this.

Rep. Peter J. Roskam (Illinois’s 6th District): In a debate on Oct. 22, he said: “Sean [Casten] has falsely accused me of being against protecting people with preexisting conditions and that was fact-checked by The Washington Post, who gave that four Pinocchios.”

View the complete October 29 article by Glenn Kessler on the Washington Post website here.

Sen. Cassidy’s misleading claim that preexisting-conditions ‘protection is absolutely the same’

The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website September 23, 2017:

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked the Cassidy-Graham health-care plan on Sept. 19 and 20, and hit back at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for failing his own standard, “the Kimmel test.” (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

“We protect those with preexisting conditions. … The protection is absolutely the same. There’s a specific provision that says that if a state applies for a waiver, it must ensure that those with preexisting conditions have affordable and adequate coverage.”
— Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” Sept. 20, 2017

In the dispute between late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), one of the key authors of the long-shot GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a key issue is whether the proposal maintains the ACA’s guarantee that people with preexisting condition can obtain health insurance. Continue reading “Sen. Cassidy’s misleading claim that preexisting-conditions ‘protection is absolutely the same’”

Mike Pence just settled it: Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill can’t guarantee protections for preexisting conditions

The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website September 21, 2017:

‪Credit:  Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

This post has been updated to include that Pence also said this: “But this legislation, Graham-Cassidy, as its authors have said, contains all the same protections for preexisting conditions as the President indicated.”

A major public flash point in Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare is whether it will protect people with preexisting conditions. Continue reading “Mike Pence just settled it: Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill can’t guarantee protections for preexisting conditions”

GOP Cuts Would Devastate Social Programs That Already Struggle to Meet the Needs of Poor Americans, Nonprofit Service Providers Warn

Nonprofit providers can supplement the social safety net, but they can’t replace it.

The following article by Ebony Slaughter-Johnson was posted on the AlterNet website July 10, 2017:

Boston, MA-January 15, 2017. Protesters at “Our First Stand: Save Health Care Rally.”
Credit: Heidi Besen / Shutterstock.com

Just weeks after lambasting the Affordable Care Act repeal and replacement efforts as “terrible” and “mean,” President Trump is now calling for something even meaner: repealing the ACA entirely and replacing it at a later date.

Repealing the ACA without replacing it would leave 32 million more uninsured by 2026.

Though delayed, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate version of the repeal, survives. It empowers states to apply for waivers to opt out of offering essential health benefits, defunds abortion providers like Planned Parenthood for one year, and offers smaller subsidies. Perhaps most devastatingly, the plan discontinues the Medicaid expansion and caps the Medicaid funding distributed to states to deprive the program of nearly $800 billion over the next decade. Continue reading “GOP Cuts Would Devastate Social Programs That Already Struggle to Meet the Needs of Poor Americans, Nonprofit Service Providers Warn”

What’s more popular than the Senate health care bill? Nixon, to start

The following article by Astead W. Herndon was posted on the Boston Globe website June 29, 2017:

WASHINGTON — The Better Care Reconciliation Act is really unpopular, and not just because it has a name that is incomprehensible to most Americans.

In polls released this week, the Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act received a 17 percent approval rating from Americans, according to a NPR/PBS/Marist poll, and it fared even worse in other surveys. According to Quinnipiac University, just 16 percent of Americans approved of the Senate health care legislation. USA Today/Suffolk University had the approval tally at 12 percent. Under the proposed law, 22 million people would lose insurance by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

For perspective, here’s a list of things that have been more popular with the American public:

Continue reading “What’s more popular than the Senate health care bill? Nixon, to start”