CHART: Who Wins, Who Loses With Senate Health Care Bill

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Source: NPR



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1. The Senate GOP Isnt Fixing Health Care. Its Waging Class War. Donations from insurance companies

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-senate-gop-isnt-fixing-health-care-theyre-waging-class-war/

A draft bill released Thursday offers tax cuts to the rich at the expense of the poor and the elderly.

Pharmaceutical companies, insurers, and other corporations also benefit from tax cuts in the bill. (By the way, the 13 men responsible for writing it received an average of $214,000 in campaign contributions from insurance and pharmaceutical companies between 2010 and November of last year.)

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2. The one encouraging thing is that Senate Bill will not do as much damage for several years, meaning

that Democrats might be able to change it before all the garbage hits.

Apparently, the ACA subsidies will remain for a few years -- assuming the GOPer financial people don't figure out a way to pull the rug out from under poor, sick, and working folks just trying to survive.