The vote for the AHCA in the House is scheduled for sometime around 1:00pm today. Call your Congressional office today. If you are in the DC Area there is a protest at the Hill at noon time. PROTEST AT THE CAPITOL AT NOON Please share:https://t.co/kfLd85OAOZ — Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) May 3, 2017 If you are …
Fuck The Poor
The Republican Health Care Plan: ER’s For The Poor
In their ongoing effort to make America sicker and to ensure that more Americans die before their time, Trump and his Republican party have decided to spend more money to cover fewer people less well in Florida: The shift involves funding that the federal government provides to help hospitals defray the cost of caring for …
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The Feds, tightening and 2018
Just an interesting thing to note for the 2018 elections. The so-called neutral U.S. interest rate fell in the final 3 months of 2016 https://t.co/GAiV7vqbuT pic.twitter.com/LqQP1Lq0NT — Bloomberg (@business) April 24, 2017 The Federal Reserve is in a tightening cycle (for what reason, I’m not sure as the data does not support a need to …
Time to call Congress
The AHCA has more lives than a serial killer in a horror movie franchise. The House Freedom Caucus has an agreement to make the bill worse by allowing states to completely opt out of guarantee issue and essential health benefits. Steven Dennis of Bloomberg has a good fast analysis of the changes: Most of the …
Third time’s a harm
The Huffington Post has the outline of yet another Republican healthcare deal: he deal, brokered between House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Tuesday Group co-chairman Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), would allow states to get waivers eliminating the so-called community rating provision ― the rule that prohibits insurers from charging higher premiums to people with …
Super Ugly Waiver (It’s back)
The AHCA is not yet dead. It was just resting for a bit before joining the choir invisible. The New York Times reports that the White House and the House Freedom Caucus (the hard right flank of the House GOP) have been talking and thinking they have the contours of a deal. The terms, described …
ACHA EHB CBO state of play
Right now there are three primary possibilities for the ACHA tomorrow: 1) No vote is taken as more wrangling and tweaking occurs 2) Vote fails as the combination of Tuesday Morning Group Republicans and the House Freedom Caucus vote against the bill from both ends of the Republican caucus. This is where we were most …