Category: Liberal Political News

Trumpcare’s biggest losers: Trump voters

… by a margin of 59 percent to 36 percent. The plan is especially disastrous for groups who typically face the highest health care costs: older and rural Americans. That’s because the tax credits offered are flat across the board instead of varying …

Mike’s Blog Round Up

… of interest. Kellyanne Conway wasn’t thrilled when Fox News’ Bill Hemmer tried to relabel the new House bill on health care, “Trumpcare.” MSNBC’s Mark Halperin asked the OMB director how many fewer people would have health insurance under Trump’s …

GOP Releases Bills to Repeal/Replace ObamaCare

House Republicans on Monday unveiled their long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare, with plans to quickly push the measure through committee votes this week. The two measures dismantle the core aspects of ObamaCare, including its subsidies to help people buy coverage, expansion of Medicaid, taxes and mandates for people to have insurance.

Mulvaney Lies About Trump’s Promise Not to Cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

The following is a statement from Nancy Altman , Founding Co-Director of Social Security Works , in reaction to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney claiming that Trump’s campaign promise was to “save” Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and that Republican plans to cut the programs would be consistent with that promise: “Mick Mulvaney and Republicans in Congress are attempting to rewrite history. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly and unequivocally promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, even specifically ruling out one of the GOP’s favorite cuts, raising the retirement age.

The Quiet Parts Loud: Medicaid Edition

… Marshall doesn’t believe it has helped, an outlook that sheds light on how this new player in Washington understands health policy. “Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,'” he said. “There is a group of people that just don’t want …

Single Payer Now Possible in California

David Lazarus: Could California have its own single-payer health insurance system providing coverage for all residents? A bill has been introduced in the state Legislature that would do just that — and its chances of success could be vastly improved by President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. Thanks, guys! First, a little history lesson.

Rick Santorum Claims ‘Millions Of Americans’ With Pre-existing Conditions Are Stealing Health Care

CNN contributor Rick Santorum suggested on Sunday that it was a mistake to guarantee health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions because “millions” of them were scamming insurance companies. During a panel discussion about health care reform, Santorum argued that President Barack Obama’s health care reform law had damaged the health care system to the point that the Republican lawmakers could not “repeal and replace” it at the same time.

2/25/2017

… her testimony – surpassing the time limit by several seconds to urge lawmakers to “stop playing with women’s health care as if it’s your own political puppet” – Schwertner hammered his gavel prompting a swift crack that shattered the desk top and …

The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Serious Policy Wonk

Paul Ryan has a very, very serious proposal to eventually have a proposal to take away health insurance from millions of people to pay for upper-class tax cuts. He is defending it with all the seriousity his proposal deserves: The rhetoric: In her inaugural weekly address, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that repealing Obamacare-a law that, in her words, has experienced ” immense progress “-will result in widespread death and suffering.

Trump’s Timeline with Russia: Stranger Than Fiction

Dan Rather recently remarked about the current Russia scandal rocking Washington, “If a scriptwriter had approached Hollywood with what we are witnessing, he or she would probably have been told it was way too far-fetched for even a summer blockbuster.” 1987 -Donald Trump meets with then-U.S.S.R. communist government officials in Moscow to discuss a joint partnership deal to build a hotel in the city.

2/12/2017

… to repeal – a promise that is proving to be more complicated to keep than he had expected. Mr. Cohn is working with a health care specialist and consulting with House Republicans: Speaker Paul D. Ryan; Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader; and Jeb …

2/12/2017

… to repeal – a promise that is proving to be more complicated to keep than he had expected. Mr. Cohn is working with a health care specialist and consulting with House Republicans: Speaker Paul D. Ryan; Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader; and Jeb …

says

… until the end of this year or possibly sometime in 2018, he says. That’s fine, he says. Has he talked to his pick for Health and Human Services about that ? The Georgia Republican congressman is on the verge of becoming the Trump administration’s …

Affordable Care Act sign-ups fall amidst uncertainty over a repeal

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, also opponents of Colorado’s GOP-led plan to undo the state-run insurance exchange, gather for a rally on the state capitol steps in Denver, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. CREDIT: AP/Brennan Linsley On Friday, the Trump administration said the number of people who signed up for health insurance in federal marketplace fell to 9.2 million, a 4 percent decline from the number of people who signed up last year.

NBC News Latino Debunks Conservative Falsehood That “The Number Of…

Unlike other media outlets that uncritically parroted the conservative American Action Network’s false claims about Latino coverage under the Affordable Care Act , NBC News Latino showed evidence disproving the political group’s false statement that “the number of uninsured Hispanics has grown” under the ACA. This statement was based on the group’s misinterpretation of a report that actually found that more Hispanics have gained health insurance under the ACA.

Love Is Always Scarpering, Or Cowering, Or Fawning

It is very difficult to have a working understanding of health policy and simultaneously be impressed by his answers on ACA. https://t.co/NTdpL9gTIw You can watch Ryan’s comments about health care yourself, but they’re evasive gibberish when they’re not outright dishonest.

Negotiating drug prices

… (formally, consumer surplus) to beneficiaries due to tightening Part D formularies to the level found in the Veterans Health Administration (VA). (A formulary is a list of drugs covered by a health plan.) We measure formulary generosity as the …

marathon votes

… wastes money. That’s not attacking Medicaid-that’s attacking the men and women and children who rely on it for their health care. And guess what, Sen. Hatch, many of those people ARE working in jobs that pay too little to allow for health insurance. …

Darrell Issa Proposes ‘Tort Reform’ To Replace Obamacare

Rep. Darrell Issa asserted on Sunday that part of the solution for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law is to give patients fewer rights when suing doctors for malpractice. During a panel discussion on CNN’s State of the Union , Delaware Democratic Representative-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester pointed out that many of her constituents relied on the Affordable Care Act.

Nurses Call on Senate to Reject Tom Price as HHS Secretary Policies…

Nurses Call on Senate to Reject Tom Price as HHS Secretary Policies Would ‘Substantially Erode Our Nation’s Health and Security’ WASHINGTON – National Nurses United later Thursday called on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as well as the full Senate, to reject the nomination of Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Planned Parenthood Is Under Attack In Texas, And Media There Are Failing The Challenge

Texas media are omitting crucial information in reports on the state’s move to cut off Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood, including that Texas’ decision was largely based on debunked videos by an anti-abortion activist group, the Center for Medical Progress, and that the move will negatively impact women’s health. In contrast, reporting by online outlets geared toward women put Texas media to shame, explaining that the evidence behind the policy decision is misleading and that the defunding will have dire consequences for women’s health in Texas.

Under Trump, America Will Turn Into Poland? Nahhh — America Will Be Worse.

In The Washington Post , Anthony Faiola describes what’s happening in Poland, and strongly suggests that America under Donald Trump could be very similar: In the land of [the] Law and Justice [Party], anti-intellectualism is king. Polish scientists are aghast at proposed curriculum changes in a new education bill that would downplay evolution theory and climate change and add hours for “patriotic” history lessons.