ANNOUNCEMENT FOR REPUBLICANS: people DO die for lack of good health care coverage.
"Dying from Lack of Insurance" [It's seven years of information!]
By Lori Robertson
Posted on September 24, 2009
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/dying-from-lack-of-insurance/
"A new study from researchers with the Harvard Medical School found that 45,000 deaths a year can be attributed to the lack of health insurance. Our readers ask: Really? And, they want to know, isn’t this finding actually from the single-payer advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program?"
Is this good, objective, factual info about insurance? Do we want to test it? People die if it is true.
"‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care,’ GOP lawmaker says. He got booed."
By Kristine Phillips By Kristine Phillips May 7, 2017
"The estimate also showed that the bill would cut $880 billion from the Medicaid program over the next decade. The program provides health insurance to low-income Americans and helps pay for long-term care for seniors and people with disabilities."
The Congressman, Rep. Raúl R. Labrador (R-Idaho) defended the GOP health care bill at a town hall in southern Idaho on May 5, 2017, is being disingenuous. At best we KNOW lack of affordable insurance can lead to bankruptcy and poverty when a major disease strikes us.
Poverty can lead to poor personal hygiene, which can lead to death over time. Causality may be hard to prove, but we all know the link is VERY possible,
This Labrador knows the data is hard to collect so WE DO NOT KNOW IF THERE IS A LINK BETWEEN INSURANCE AND DEATHS.
Labrador focused on death in the streets. Of course the people die at home or in a hospital . . .
"In a statement Saturday, Labrador said his answer to the woman’s question “wasn’t very elegant.” He also criticized the media for focusing on a small portion of an exchange that lasted about seven minutes.
“I was responding to a false notion that the Republican health care plan will cause people to die in the streets, which I completely reject,” Labrador said."
OK, and they might not die specifically or directly for lack of insurance. Granted. Feel better now that people cannot live a life style for quality health? Feel better Congressman? Happy now?
"How Many People Die Because They Lack Health Insurance?"
Maybe none.
How many people die from lack of insurance? That's the question that The Atlantic's Megan McArdle tackled in her column this month. It's a more difficult question to answer than you might think: Though the left is fond of claiming that hundreds of thousands of people will be left to die like dogs on the street if we don't grant them health care coverage, the truth of the matter is still under debate."
9:29 AM, Feb 12, 2010 | By Sonny Bunch
http://www.weeklystandard.com/how-many-people-die-because-they-lack-health-insurance/article/420807
"Trump’s forbidden love: Single-payer health care"
By Aaron Blake By Aaron Blake The Fix Analysis
Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events
May 5, 2017 at 7:51 AM
Tweety doesn't even understand what he likes is what he promised. lol On 4 May 2017 Tweety touted a Health Care plan that is NOT single payer. Then he says Australia has better health care than the United States. Australia has a single payer system!
"President Trump claimed a victory Thursday after the House approved a more free-market approach to health care.
Then he capped it off by praising a country with government-run, universal health care."
Tweety really, really has no idea what is going to come out of his own personal mouth!
"Under The Republican Health Bill, We All Have Pre-Existing Conditions"
May 05, 2017
By Miles Howard
https://claytoonz.com/tag/ivanka-trump/
"But there’s no component of the American Health Care Act more detrimental to public health and the soul of this nation than an amendment which will allow health insurance companies to discriminate against individuals with “pre-existing conditions.” Why? Because nearly all of us have pre-existing health conditions — and there’s no telling which ones might price us out of the health insurance marketplace tomorrow, a year from now, or farther down the road."
Here it is! The big "fix" is the high risk pool? The segregation of peoples. Discrimination against the sick. Wow! That is truly American right, since it means health care is a commodity, a product to bid for. The richest get the best! Great for rich people.
The Republicans do not understand insurance! They put some of us in a "high risk" pool so we can be segregated from the population. That is NOT INSURAMCE! All the people have to contribute because NONE of us know when we will need high cost coverage. Yes, high risk people the Republicans / insurance companies identify get to be in the high risk pool, but who decides which of us go into that pool?
"Not too long ago, having a medical record with blemishes as inconsequential as acne used to be enough to earn you rejection notices from health insurance providers. While far from a complete solution to America’s health care problems, the Affordable Care Act fixed this particular issue by stripping insurers of the right to blackball consumers with pre-existing conditions or to charge them grossly inflated premiums on account of such conditions. This allowed millions to purchase health coverage for the first time. If signed into the law, the health care bill will allow states to “opt out” of this requirement, subjecting those with pre-existing conditions to unaffordable health insurance costs. The only fix offered by the bill is the creation of high-risk pools for those who didn’t win the genetic lottery. Every person placed in these pools will receive federal subsidies to help cover their higher insurance costs. But by industry estimates, the money set aside to pay for high-risk pools will cover only a fraction of the pool occupants’ collective health insurance costs. Once that money runs out, anyone with a pre-existing condition will be on their own."
I do not care if it is Republican or not, the Health Care plan passed May 2017 is ugly! I thought Tweety promised more, betters, even "beautiful" health care, cheaper than the Affordable Care Act. Why can't he keep THIS particular promise?
Keep to your promise Tweety.
"Republicans Just Voted to Take Away Health Care From Millions of People"
The House Trumpcare bill could raise rates on people with preexisting conditions while cutting taxes for the rich.
Patrick CaldwellMay 4, 2017 2:19 PM
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The House passed the GOP plan, dubbed the American Health Care Act, by a 217-213 margin, with all but 20 Republicans voting in favor of the law. No Democrats voted for the bill. The bill will now head to the Senate, where a number of Republicans have called for significant changes to the legislation.
When the Congressional Budget Office analyzed an earlier version of the AHCA in March, it found that under the bill, 24 million fewer people would have health insurance than under Obamacare—and that was before Republicans added a provision allowing insurance companies to raise rates on people with preexisting conditions in states that receive a waver. But we still don't know exactly what impact the bill that just passed the House will have; that's because Republicans rushed through the vote before the CBO could release estimates of how many people would be insured under the new legislation."
God help us from the fools in the House. Now it is up to the Senate to give America what Tweety promised to ALL Americans.
I pray, in my own spiritual, non-denomination religion, that the Senate acts more deliberately and intelligently.
