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Obamacare kept people out of bankruptcy. Trumpcare wouldn’t.
Posted on May 3, 2017 Leave a Comment
As House Republicans continue to scramble for votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, new findings from Consumer Reports show one of the little-heralded but important outcomes of the law — a lot fewer people went bankrupt because they couldn’t pay medical bills. Fifty percent fewer, in fact. Because the ACA removed lifetime […]
Trumpcare is dead. Now let’s start fixing Obamacare (UPDATE)
Posted on March 25, 2017 Leave a Comment
In a failure as epic as Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan lost soundly on a central part of Trump’s 2016 campaign and an issue in Republican campaigns for the past seven years — repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. You might even say they got “shellacked.” In the […]
What will happen to Trumpcare? Leave it for the vultures
Posted on March 13, 2017 Leave a Comment
House Speaker Paul Ryan has introduced a real vulture of a bill to replace Obamacare. I was going to say “turkey” of a bill, but that’s not fair to turkeys, which many of us enjoy at Thanksgiving. This bill is more like a scavenger that wants to loom over and starve the Affordable Care Act […]
