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14 Jul 2017

Latest Version of Senate Health Care Bill Fundamentally the Same as Previous Versions

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/07/14/latest-version-of-senate-health-care-bill-fundamentally-the-same-as-previous-versions/#.WWjzB4TysdU By Families USA July 14, 2017 Editor’s note: This piece was written by Families USA’s Eliot Fishman, Senior Director of Health Policy, Dee Mahan, Director of Medicaid Initiatives, and Lydia Mitts, Associate Director of Affordability Initiatives. It was originally posted on Families … Continued

14 Jul 2017

New Health Care Bill, Same Problems for PA

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-07-14/health-issues/new-health-care-bill-same-problems-for-pa/a58518-2 July 14, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., still may not get the 50 votes needed to pass the latest version of the health-care … Continued

14 Jul 2017

Working Together to Keep Congress’s #Handsoff

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Economic Justice, Federal Budget, Uncategorized | 0

Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/07/12/16562/#.WWZfYoTysdU By Lecia Imbery July 12, 2017 At the Coalition, we know the importance of working together and fighting for what’s right with one voice. The past few months have proven this to be true now more than ever. … Continued

11 Jul 2017

Senate Bill Raises Marketplace and Employer-based Premiums for Most Pennsylvanians

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/senate-bill-raises-marketplace-and-employer-based-premiums-most-pennsylvanians Jul 05, 2017 09:23 am | Marc Stier We have been focused recently on the impact of the Senate health care bill on Medicaid, mainly because the dangers of both the House and Senate bills to Medicaid … Continued

11 Jul 2017

Senate GOP Trying to Force Vote on Trumpcare Before August Recess—Tell Senator Toomey NO

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

From One PA (http://www.onepa.org/): From what we’re hearing out of Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are planning to release an updated version of their health care “reform” bill this afternoon to force a vote on Trumpcare before the August recess. Regardless … Continued

30 Jun 2017

CLASP Releases Health Justice Fact Sheets

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): CLASP released a set of fact sheets outlining the top five ways the ACA supports low-income young adults and the top five threats from Republican repeal-and-replace proposals. View CLASP fact sheets on health justice at http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/mental-health-youth-fact-sheet-final.pdf.

30 Jun 2017

Despite Delay, Resistance Doubles Down Against Deeply Unpopular Trumpcare Bill

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/28/despite-delay-resistance-doubles-down-against-deeply-unpopular-trumpcare-bill Published on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 New poll shows just 17 percent of Americans support Republican bill By Julia Conley, staff writer Americans across the country have mobilized this week to stop the Republican effort to pass … Continued

29 Jun 2017

Call Senators Casey and Toomey to Oppose Senate Health Care Bill

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): Even though Sen. McConnell pulled the Senate’s immoral repeal of affordable health care yesterday, which would strip 22 million Americans of health insurance, we’re not out of the woods yet. Please call our Senators … Continued

29 Jun 2017

Senate Health Bill Would Slash Medicaid, Taking Health Care from Millions of Low-Income People

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Health Care/Issues, Uncategorized | 0

This statement from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) can be attributed to Oliva Golden, CLASP Executive Director June 22, 2017—Today, Senate Republicans released their health reform bill. The so-called Better Care Bill—which would actually make care worse—would … Continued

22 Jun 2017

Sign Letter to Senator Toomey–Urge Him to Oppose Senate Health Care Proposal

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Uncategorized | 5

Please join us by signing on to a letter that expresses the following to Senator Toomey: We have grave concerns about the future of the Medicaid program under current proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. We strongly … Continued