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
Update thanks to National Association of Social Workers: Senate Republicans yesterday moved one step closer to their goal of repealing the Affordable Care Act. The motion to proceed to debate on health care reform passed narrowly, 51-50, with the help … 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 http://www.cbpp.org/research/health/senate-health-care-bill-ends-medicaid-as-we-know-it-with-even-bigger-cuts-than-house The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) would radically restructure Medicaid financing and effectively end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion, cutting federal Medicaid funding by $772 billion over ten years and reducing enrollment by 15 … Continued
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
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
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