From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): YOU DID IT! After months of fighting with everything we have, together, we were able to stop the Senate from repealing the Affordable Care Act. This has been the goal of “Obamacare” opponents … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): Today, as we mark Medicaid’s 52nd birthday, we also celebrate the defeat of deeply disturbing proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tear health coverage away from tens of millions of Americans. CLASP is delighted … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): New efforts to gut healthcare are scheduled to be voted on in the Senate TODAY. Poor Americans will face cuts to their care and many middle class working families will lose the vital subsidies … Continued
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
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
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/new-estimates-loss-federal-funding-pennsylvania-senate-health-care-bill Jul 08, 2017 10:37 am | Marc Stier The Manatt Health Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a new study of the impact of the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act … Continued
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/june/memo-effects-us-senate-health-care-bill-pennsylvania Jun 28, 2017 03:04 pm | Marc Stier MEMO To: Interested Parties From: Marc Stier, Director, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Date: June 28, 2017 Re: Effects of U.S. Senate Health Care Bill on Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania … Continued
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
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
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