{"id":133804,"date":"2017-07-05T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/health-insurance-reform-fact-check-round-up.html"},"modified":"2017-07-05T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:35:19","slug":"health-insurance-reform-fact-check-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/health-insurance-reform-fact-check-round-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Reform Fact-Check Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!").<\/p>\n

From the NYT [https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/misleading-republican-claims-health-care.html<\/a>] 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<\/i> a gap in Medicaid coverage<\/p>\n

From the WaPo [https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2017\/07\/05\/decoding-the-white-house-spin-on-obamacare-failures\/<\/a>]
— 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<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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,<\/i> just as they did these GOP statements. Don't just assume it's something made up because that's so much less work.<\/p>\n

[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<\/a><\/p>\n

[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<\/i> 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<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nFive Misleading Republican Claims About Health Care – The New York Times<\/a><\/span>
\nRepublicans have misinformed Americans on the Senate health care bill’s impact in several areas and have exaggerated the Affordable Care Act’s problems.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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 … Continue reading “Health Insurance Reform Fact-Check Round-Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133033,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/why-yes-you-can-save-etc-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":133804,"position":0},"title":"Why, yes, you can save (etc.) – Part 2","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Mar-17 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm linking to the WaPo article that largely reports the same as the NYT article I linked to yesterday, mainly because of the superior graph, which doesn't just show the rise of uninsured under the AHCA, but gives the historic context to show the AHCA basically rolls back (and more)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133040,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/pushing-the-death-panels-down-to-the-states-is-not-the-flexibility-we-need.html","url_meta":{"origin":133804,"position":1},"title":"Pushing the Death Panels down to the states is not the "flexibility" we need","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Mar-17 2:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"During the debate over the ACA, the Republicans loooooved to talk about \"Death Panels.\" The idea was that any sort of national health insurance scheme would, perforce, require the federal government to ration the finite resources of the medical care system, and so there would have to be federal \"Death\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132995,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/morphing-the-aca-into-the-ahca.html","url_meta":{"origin":133804,"position":2},"title":"Morphing the ACA into the AHCA","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Mar-17 11:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because that's not at all intentionally confusing ...So reading some analysis of the proposed GOP health insurance plan has been a bit confusing, but a few points stand out:1. 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