Revisiting The GOPs Big 'Take Away Their Coverage' Celebration - By Josh Marshall (Wow!)

[DonViejo]

By JOSH MARSHALL Published JULY 19, 2017 10:31 AM

With the apparent (zombies are undead) collapse of Obamacare repeal, I thought it made sense to republish these handy infographics. Back on May 4th, 2017, the House passed the American Health Care Act, which included devastating coverage loss numbers across the country. House Republicans who voted for it went to the White House shortly thereafter to celebrate bigly with laughs and guffaws and cheers and backslapping all around. Here are some of the best pictures of the celebration with President Trump, with annotations noting how many constituents would lose their coverage in each member’s district.








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Now, where do these numbers come from? First, let me give a huge, huge shout-out to Charles Gaba and his essential ACASignups.net website. People who follow this issue don’t need me to tell them about Gaba’s site. But if you don’t follow this number stuff that closely, Gaba is the guy on this. For years now he’s been an amazing resource for journalists, politicians, policy hands and more. (Gaba’s site is one of those amazing things about the Internet – one person, really just based on caring about an issue creates something of immense value to the whole society at really no direct benefit to himself.) For these particular numbers, here’s the sourcing: The Congressional Budget Office scored the original version of the AHCA in March. That’s the source for the 24 million lost coverage numbers. The Center for American Progress took the CBO numbers and crunched the numbers for individual states and districts using data from The Kaiser Foundation and the American Community Survey from the US Census Bureau. Gaba took that data and put them in very easy to read charts for every state and every district (because that’s just the kind of thing he does) and organized them so you can compare the impact of straight repeal and repeal and replacement with the AHCA.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. as always, K and R for TPM and Josh Marshall. Essential reading several times per day.

[Control-Z]

2. Nicely done, Josh Marshall!

I'll be saving these images. I'm sad to say they'll come in handy when they're needed again and again in the future.

[moondust]

3. The Merry Murderers

A great, great day for the Reaper! So great!

The Grabber is pleased:

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[malaise]

4. Excellent post

K & R

[cachukis]

5. Agreed. Have to follow him. Keep his investigations going.

[mcar]

6. These photos should be posted far and wide

Thanks Don.

[oasis]

7. Wallpaper for Trump's presidential library. nt

[magicarpet]

8. Yay .......

Devastation.
Destruction.
Death.

USA ~ USA ~ USA

MAGA

[hibbing]

9. It disgusted me then and now

It's just frightening, but what do you expect from these horrible people.


Peace

[nikatnyte]

10. "I hope they realize what they are celebrating."

Mitch McConnell's words of two days ago were a couple months too late.

[dalton99a]

11. Great work

[longship]

12. There's more at the link.

As usual, Josh has his shit together. Great framing!