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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety
The GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entiretyTime to panic.
IAN MILLHISER
SEP 18, 2017, 3:29 PM
Senate Republicans are on the cusp of passing a bill that will eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars worth of health funding, destabilize insurance markets, and eventually phase out Medicaid in its entirety. Less than two months after three Republican senators stopped an earlier effort to strip away much of Americas health care safety net, millions of Americans health care is now in very serious peril.
The new Trumpcare legislation often referred to as Graham-Cassidy after Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), its leading proponents contains several provisions undercutting the Affordable Care Act. It eliminates subsidies helping many millions of Americans purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges and Obamacares Medicaid expansion, replacing this funding with a less generous block grant to states.
Then, this block grant abruptly disappears in 2027, leaving many millions of Americans with nothing.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-gops-on-the-verge-of-passing-a-bill-that-will-phase-out-medicaid-in-its-entirety-c2677f7de2f3/
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The GOPs on the verge of passing a bill that will phase out Medicaid in its entirety (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Sep 2017
OP
They won't be happy until there is absolutely zero safety net in this country
workinclasszero
Sep 2017
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)1. To those who continue to vote for Republicans......
This is your doing!
YOU who know no better than to vote for people who will strip you of your voting rights, TAKE AWAY your ability to afford Health care, and return you to a time when opportunities for advancement up the Economic food chain was impossible.
Thank you, Republican voters. Are you happy now?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. They won't be happy until there is absolutely zero safety net in this country
No minimum wages, no child labor laws, no welfare of any kind. No medical help for the poor of any kind. No environmental protection laws of any kind. No social security.
Forever war for the MIC and a steady stream of poor Americans marching into a violent bloody death for Lockheed-Martin etc.
No they have much more massive destruction in mind before they will be happy.
MFM008
(19,803 posts)3. Wow
Glad there is no difference between the parties..