Tag: Senate GOP healthcare bill

What’s more popular than the Senate health care bill? Nixon, to start

The following article by Astead W. Herndon was posted on the Boston Globe website June 29, 2017:

WASHINGTON — The Better Care Reconciliation Act is really unpopular, and not just because it has a name that is incomprehensible to most Americans.

In polls released this week, the Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act received a 17 percent approval rating from Americans, according to a NPR/PBS/Marist poll, and it fared even worse in other surveys. According to Quinnipiac University, just 16 percent of Americans approved of the Senate health care legislation. USA Today/Suffolk University had the approval tally at 12 percent. Under the proposed law, 22 million people would lose insurance by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

For perspective, here’s a list of things that have been more popular with the American public:

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Senate Democrats shine light on health bill’s longer-term effect on Medicaid

The following article by Amy Goldstein was posted on the Washington Post website June 29, 2017:

In asking the Congressional Budget Office to take a longer view of Senate Republicans’ troubled health-care plan, the chamber’s Democrats maneuvered to train a spotlight on exactly what the GOP has sought to bury.

The Better Care Reconciliation Act relies on the time-honored political strategy of pressing a bill’s most profound effects years into the future — in this case, in severely constricting the main source of public health insurance for poor and vulnerable Americans.

Until Thursday, that scenario had been cloaked in arcane legislative language about per-capita caps and varying inflation adjustments. What Congress’s nonpartisan budget scorekeepers did, at the prodding of the Senate Finance Committee’s senior Democrat, is make clear that the GOP legislation would squeeze federal Medicaid spending by 35 percent by the end of two decades, compared with current law. Continue reading “Senate Democrats shine light on health bill’s longer-term effect on Medicaid”

See where the Senate health-care bill’s subsidy cuts will affect Americans most

Kim Soffen with the Washington Post has written an article with the above title posted on the Washington Post website June 24, 2017. It has great charts showing the Senate GOP’s healthcare bill’s impact on people across the country. With all the charts, it’s difficult to reproduce here.  So, we’re providing a link to their post.