AHCA Senate Vote Next Week

[Shaks24]

The senate will likely vote next week on the AHCA. Rumor has it that the bill is 80% the same as the house version with even deeper cuts to medicaid. The article linked below has contact information for all the U.S. senators. If you oppose the bill contact your senators and let them know. You can call their office or email them. The actual details of the bill might be made available to the public tomorrow. So far a working group of 13 senators have been writing the bill in secrecy behind closed doors.

http://socsecnews.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-time-to-act-is-now.html

[kickingandscreaming]

A telephone call is a much more powerful influencer than an email or filling out a contact form. Aides keep track of tallies.  Emails are mostly ignored.

The following senators are seen at potential swing votes on the AHCA.  Here are their phone numbers:

Murkowski (AK) - (202)-224-6665
Sullivan (AK) - (202)-224-3004
Flake (AZ) - 202-224-4521
Gardner (CO) - (202) 224-5941
Ernst (IA) - (202) 224-3254
Grassley (IA) - (202) 224-3744
Heller (NV) - 202-224-6244
Portman (OH) - 202-224-3353
Alexander (TN) - (202) 224-4944
Corker (TN) - 202-224-3344
Capito (WV) - 202-224-6472

Tell them you want to know what is in the Senate bill.
Tell them you want to know who will lose coverage.
Tell them you don't want to see cuts to Medicaid.
Tell them you don't want to see people lose AFFORDABLE coverage for pre-existing conditions.

[kickingandscreaming]

The House-passed version of the American Health Care Act would strip $834 billion from Medicaid, deprive 23 million Americans of health insurance over a decade and spike premiums in the individual insurance market by 20 percent in the first year alone, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The legislation would leave many Americans with pre-existing conditions without access to affordable coverage, the CBO concludes, "if they could purchase it at all." In addition, the House bill would allow insurers to jack up premiums on rural and older-working-age Americans. In rural Alaska, a 60-year-old would be hit with insurance premiums of $28,000 a year.

The only real winners in Trumpcare are Americans in the top 0.1 percent, who would receive a $200,000 tax break.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/wtf-is-going-on-with-the-secret-senate-version-of-trumpcare-w488612

And, behind all the cloak-and-dagger GOP hiding of the details, they say that the Senate version is even "meaner."

[kickingandscreaming]

Here is a good article showing a side-by-side comparison of the AHCA and and Affordable Care Act"

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obamacare-repeal/

[Shaks24]

A map showing coverage losses and out of pocket cost increases state by state if Trumpcare is passed. The bill is in trouble but it is still kicking. Good contact info for all senators and their aids that handle health care. Please call and leave messages and email over the recess if you oppose this bill.

https://www.indivisibleguide.com/resource/impact-of-trumpcare-by-state/

[Rerun]

They had a thing on CBS last night that the drug users will lose some of their rehab coverage.  Good news though, all the drug users in Virginia will keep the "Clean Needle Program"  Praise the Lord for that!

 

All this fighting should be to cover low income people who want to try and live.  These drug users are in a place they drug themselves.

[Shaks24]

The drug problem is just a small portion of the people who will face loss of coverage. The very poor, the elderly in nursing homes, those with pre existing conditions. Tens of millions forecast to lose health insurance. Also out of pocket costs will rise in a big way. Specially if you are poor and over 50. At the same time a huge tax cut for the very wealthy. You Trumpkins were played like a cheap drum. Here is a reminder of what Trump promised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQFItVBKlAU