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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnells Skinny Repeal Could Still Mean 15 Million Fewer With Insurance
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Don't be fooled. Focus.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)But yes, this is bad, but can you imagine if
wait, I am not allowed to talk about the past, thus guaranteeing we absolutely will repeat it.
Initech
(100,081 posts)At low low prices!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)a person with cancer, partaking from great health insurance YOU and I pay for, voting to open discussion about taking it from many if not all of us.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)That settles that. Caring for "all" Americans is not the GOPs way. Fuck them.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)America could lose more than a million jobs if the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday.
Thats according to a report from George Washington Universitys Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund.
This legislation could single-handedly put a big dent in health care job growth, said Leighton Ku, the lead author of the report and the director of the Center for Health Policy Research at George Washington University.
Repealing the law, also known as Obamacare, would dramatically scale back federal funding for health care, especially Medicaid. That translates into job losses as hospitals, retirement homes and other health facilities get fewer dollars.
We're talking about one out of every 20 health care jobs disappearing by 2026. That's a lot, Ku said.
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Job losses, however, get much less attention, despite the fact that health care has been a booming field for job growth. Even during the Great Recession, health care jobs continued to grow. A third of all jobs created in the United States in the past decade have been in health care.
According to the Labor Department, 15.7 million Americans have jobs in health care today roughly 1 in 9 workers. And a lot of the job growth Trump has heralded so far in his tenure has also come from health care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/25/1-million-jobs-on-the-line-as-senate-votes-on-health-care/?utm_term=.3e0f975ae1be
B2G
(9,766 posts)I'm not seeing how that many would be lost.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)was not a block grant system. Funding for medicaid will be cut well below Pre-ACA levels.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)They don't account for the obvious massive inflation to be experienced by those still insured who will likely have to drop coverage, and the obvious recession that will follow which will mean million will lose employer coverage. I have no doubt millions more will lose insurance and the GAP penalty will mean they stay uninsured. This will be a disaster that will cost trillions in the end to fix. In other words...a typical Rethug short sighted policy decision.