{"id":134734,"date":"2017-09-18T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T17:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134734"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:01:12","slug":"reminder-gop-hasnt-stopped-trying-repeal-aca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/reminder-gop-hasnt-stopped-trying-repeal-aca.html","title":{"rendered":"Again, a reminder that the GOP hasn’t stopped trying to repeal the ACA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone sort of went back to sleep on this one after their try failed in July. But despite an actual bipartisan effort to fix ACA problems, a key group of GOP Senators is back at it, pushing a bill forward as fast as they can so that they can get it in before the end of the month, when the majority-only reconciliation process runs out of time.<\/p>\n

And, yes, as previously noted, this bill does all sorts of jolly, humane, compassionately conservative things, including:<\/p>\n

— Letting states waive essential insurance benefits
\n— Letting insurance companies charge more for people with preconditions
\n— Remove mandates on large employers to provide health insurance
\n— Rolling back the Medicaid expansion
\n— Turning Medicaid into a block grant with a reduced budget
\n— Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood for a year<\/p>\n

The results are (still, again) in the short term lots of people losing insurance, in the long term even more people losing their insurance or being bankrupted by their medical expenses, and ongoing a further reduction in the safety net in case of (inevitable) economic downturn or disaster.<\/p>\n

Contact your Senators.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/a>
\nRepublicans Demand Another Vote to Repeal the Affordable Care Act – The New York Times<\/a><\/span>
\nIf the Senate does not vote by the end of next week, repealing the law would require 60 votes, not a simple majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Everyone sort of went back to sleep on this one after their try failed in July. But despite an actual bipartisan effort to fix ACA problems, a key group of GOP Senators is back at it, pushing a bill forward as fast as they can so that they can get it in before the end … Continue reading “Again, a reminder that the GOP hasn’t stopped trying to repeal the ACA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,528,134,376,348],"tags":[1171,125,1045],"class_list":["post-134734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-health-care","category-taxing-spending","category-women","tag-aca","tag-gop","tag-repealandreplace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-21.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134702,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/yes-gop-still-trying-take-aca-medicaid.html","url_meta":{"origin":134734,"position":0},"title":"Yes, the GOP are STILL trying to take down the ACA … and Medicaid","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Sep-17 12:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rising from the grave to eat the health care of the living ... 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