The WaPo and New York Times [1] offer some consolidated fact-checking against GOP Senate and White House arguments against the ACA and in favor of their New, Improved AHCA insurance reform plans ("Now with 9% fewer people losing their insurance than the last version!").
From the NYT [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/us/politics/misleading-republican-claims-health-care.html] on
— whether the AHCA keeps the ACA's Medicaid expansion
— whether the AHCA actually increases Medicaid funding
— whether the AHCA will reduce middle-class taxes
— whether the ACA has led to doubling and tripling of premiums
— whether the ACA actually caused a gap in Medicaid coverage
From the WaPo [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/07/05/decoding-the-white-house-spin-on-obamacare-failures/]
— whether average premiums under the ACA are up 105%
— to what extent insurers are abandoning markets [2]
— how many people are dropping off of the exchanges
— how many people were penalized for not buying insurance
— how many people still don't have, or have dropped, their ACA coverage
— how much premiums have increased [3]
— whether the CBO overestimated how many people would be covered by the ACA
That's a lot of items, though the articles are themselves pretty concise (with plenty of linked backup). I'm posting them largely as reference for the future, as the assertions targeted by these items keep coming up again and again (often without detail), and being able to address them directly would be convenient.
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[1] And, yes, I know, the cries of "Fake News!" ring out across the land. Now grow up. If there's a presented assertion of "fact" that's given there that you don't like or disagree with, then check it, just as they did these GOP statements. Don't just assume it's something made up because that's so much less work.
[2] I'd also recommend this article, talking about the perennial problem that highly rural markets have had in getting insurance company coverage, and how the AHCA will not improve that problem: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/upshot/theres-only-one-grocery-store-in-most-rural-areas-should-we-expect-two-health-insurers.html
[3] And I recommend this article on the latest-greatest GOP work-around for how to handle high-risk patients: by segmenting the insurance market, which inevitably leads to significantly higher premiums for sick people, whoever is paying them: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/upshot/ted-cruz-has-an-idea-for-how-to-cover-high-risk-patients.html
Five Misleading Republican Claims About Health Care – The New York Times
Republicans have misinformed Americans on the Senate health care bill’s impact in several areas and have exaggerated the Affordable Care Act’s problems.
Why would any thinking person care what New York Times or Washington Post presents? Their credibility has long since gone down the drain.
+Barry R Cooper Good reading of Footnote 1.
Republicans lie, Trump lies what's the problem people?
Bottom line people.
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Are these as big of Lies has Obama's?
+Todd Potts umm, this is now sweet cheeks expecting better not using the old mikie did it excuses.
This is not news, we already knew this shit. Twitter-toddler and the repugs are sending this country BACKWARDS. People losing healthcare coverage, jobs will diminished behind this act. They even attacking the elders. WTF man!!! Each and everyone of these so-called politicians need a switf kick in their asses. They are worthless.
R's intentionally sabotaged the ACA by defunding the risk corridors.
+Dave Hill Liberal loons have bipolar disorder which is why they use terms 'fact' and 'claim'. What they have is 'opinions' based on personal conclusions slanted toward their desired worldview. New York Times has become the new America Pravda whose readers are on the fringes of society living in a world of TV.
+Barry R Cooper Umm, pehaps you could tell all those red state's that relies heavily on social services and expanded Medicaid where their governor's are getting a little nervous perhaps carrier ending.
+Carol Davis Medicaid will in some form or another will always be available for those who are unable to work. Social services is slowly making big changes in that almost half of Americans who are able to work do not. America has become a pitiful group reaching for a big government tit.
Over 22 million suddenly without health insurance a sure way for republicans to end their careers.
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This cheeto-emperor making it bigger. he just open a new agency panel to look into his fake voter fraud. But states blocking his false claims
trumpNOcare.
It's cool they just make america great again.
Hahaha……delusional
+Carol Davis you loved Obama's lies you still do but don't like the Republicans wow you really do have a problem.
+Anthony Hylton +Anthony Hylton How much does the media pay you to shill?
yeah OBAMA CARE = Yes
+Carol Davis Liberal loons/creeps/freaks/dullards equate health insurance with health care. Millions have the card but cannot pay the premiums or deductibles and cannot find a provider to take the card. Many conservatives are all to happy to just let Dingbat Care explode. This conservative wants to repeal Dingbat Care as promised and work on replacement up until the 2018 election with universal health care on the table for voters aka registered citizens to decide.
+indy bumble b how much breit-FART and infowars pays you to troll? Shitty bee.
We can only hope our healthcare will be as good as England's, haha. Isn't that what you libs want?
Everyone knew obamacare sucked before the election, now its so wonderful.
+Barry R Cooper Yyyeah, Barry. You're not here for the discussion, are you? Go in peace.
+Donald Huber While the NHS certainly has problems, the idea that when you discover you have a serious illness, your first question isn't "Lord, is this going to bankrupt my family?" has a certain attractive quality to it.
+Jack Taylor Nobody thinks the ACA is perfect. But when you buy a new car and then aren't allowed to maintain it for 8 years, it's no surprise when it starts belching smoke — and recommendations that you replace it with a rickshaw don't make much sense, either.
The rest of the world enjoys health care at half the cost, but here you can't get people past their party preferences to do so. Even when it's their own health.
+Dave Hill yep. But let those who want "catastrophe has insurance" buy it at a reasonable price. Not do what the ACA does. Charge an arm and a leg and then charge you with a big deductible which ends up being no more than catastrophic insurance with a Cadillac premium. When people have no skin in the game, they tend to abuse it. That is why we have the opiate problem. And that is why we have the majority of births on Medicaid. If they had to spend something they would think twice about abusing it. . Ever sit in a doctors office and see Medicaid patients with a smart phone, tattoos, expensive hair extensions and expenses Gel nails? There is money for their healthcare but they spend it on luxury items.
+Donald Huber the high cost of health insurance puts corporate America at a disadvantag in global market competitiveness.
+Donald Huber Ah, the "poor people are just ripping off the system, having Medicaid babies and playing with their smartphones, so they should pay more, not less, for medical care until they are suitably humbled" argument. That always plays well.
Breaking off high-risk people into a separate insurance pool doesn't solve the problem, it just makes it more complex. To make that pool affordable for those people, you need substantial subsidies — which not only become one more separate thing to cut or let get out of whack but are monies that could simply be used in a general pool to make it more affordable for everyone.
+Dave Hill you shouldn't have babies if you can't afford them. How about that for a start. over spending and then printing money to put on our children doesn't play well,with me. But hey, letting those who do not contribute and not sacrifice their smart phones etc as you say, doesn't play very well. Let's not expect people to be responsible for their decisions and live within their means. That doesn't play well either.
+Donald Huber Your assumptions about who actually receives Medicaid, what their employment status is, how many children they have (and why), how or why they have a smartphone, how much medical care (let alone insurance) one can get for the price of a smartphone, etc., indicates a fair amount of "Welfare Queen" myopia on the subject.
Hey, Donald, Barry, suggest you read this..
http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-zero-b.s.-guide-to-american-healthcare/