Democrats introduce plan to improve the Affordable Care Act, Trump tries to completely destroy it

[Skidmore]

How about we get the word around on social media and in our communities? Unify behind this before Trump starts killing people through taking healthcare.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/26/1845347/-Democrats-introduce-plan-to-improve-the-Affordable-Care-Act-Trump-tries-to-completely-destroy-it?

While Donald Trump is asking a federal court to rip out the whole of the Affordable Care Act, root and branch, House Democrats are introducing a long-planned proposal to make it much better, more affordable, and stronger.

Announcing the plan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it would "strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions, reverse the G.O.P.’s health care sabotage and lower Americans’ health costs." That's precisely what it does, expanding and building on the foundation that Obamacare has created for the healthcare system.

The legislation would make coverage more affordable for more than 13 million people, by cutting premiums and/or deductibles, and making sure that nearly all Americans could purchase insurance for less than 10 percent of their income. The legislation would make subsidies available to some families who are now ineligible because one member could be covered under an employer plan, even though that employer plan is unaffordable for the entire family. It would create lower-cost options that still comply fully with the law for about 12 million currently uninsured Americans, more than 40 percent of the uninsured population. It would also restore funding for outreach and in-person assistance to help people enroll in coverage.

Further, in reversing Trump's sabotage of the law, it would end his rule allowing crap insurance plans that deny coverage or charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions. Rep. Frank Pallone, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and one of the architects of this effort, took aim specifically at the junk plans Trump is forcing. "These junk plans discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions," he said. "They deny access to basic benefits. They set arbitrary dollar limits for health care services, leading to huge surprise bills for consumers."...more

[NurseJackie]

1. I know. It's insane. THEY are insane.

(The GOP, I mean.)

[sheshe2]

2. Excellent idea. Skidmore.

Frankly, I think the GOP will get slaughtered on this issue.

[Skidmore]

3. Kick. So we can't get

behind a plan by Democrats to protect healthcare?

Let's do this thing. We need to protect the vulnerable.

[Gothmog]

4. I hope that the 2020 election is about the ACA and health care and not the economy

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[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[Takket]

6. going to be hard to get our message out.....

right now the media is in a full out celebration with drumpf over his "exoneration" and are only interested in the ACA being voided by him, not what the Democrats have to say.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. needs more people yelling at the media

Educate the electorate.

[Skidmore]

15. Exactly this.

Millions will lose vital healthcare if Trump has his way.

Dems have a plan to improve healthcare. We need to give them support. Everyone needs to ask themselves where they and their families will be without healthcare and at the mercy of an unregulated insurance and pharma system.

[George II]

8. What's disturbing is that tonight on Chris Hayes' show, Sanders said he wouldn't support the bill...

Hayes has been a Sanders supporter for years.

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[Cha]

9. Good on Hayes for calling BS

out on his current stance.

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Thanks, George.

[Gothmog]

10. Here is the clip

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[George II]

14. Wow! I'm stunned that he would take that position.

...am I hearing this correctly? That could seriously damage his campaign when it comes to providing healthcare insurance to as many Americans as possible.

[Skidmore]

16. He really

is the flip side of the Trump coin. And he wants whose support in that binary world of concrete thinking?

[brer cat]

11. He absolutely will be killing people.

I agree that we need to all do our part to spread the word.

[ooky]

13. Kicked and recommended.

This is exactly the approach to health care we need to be taking, to provide immediate relief to the most vulnerable. Thank you Madam Speaker.

[ehrnst]

17. k&r