The American Hospital Association on Thursday urged Senate Republicans to “go back to the drawing board” on their newly released bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
“From the onset of this debate, America’s hospitals and health systems have been guided by a set of key principles that would protect coverage for Americans,” Rick Pollack, the AHA’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the draft bill under discussion in the Senate moves in the opposite direction.”
The version of the legislation released on Thursday would impose deeper long-term cuts to Medicaid than the House bill and eliminate most of Obamacare’s subsidies. Pollack cited the potential Medicaid cuts as a major concern.
“Medicaid cuts of this magnitude are unsustainable and will increase costs to individuals with private insurance,” he said. “We urge the Senate to go back to the drawing board and develop legislation that continues to provide coverage to all Americans who currently have it.”
Obamacare repeal is not ABOUT health care. It’s about whether Trump’s buddies get a tax cut or not.
okay, where did I put it? Okay, here it is:
Ahem:
"What Did You Think They Were Going To Do?"
What the hell would hospitals know about health care, or its cost, or its effectiveness?
Just a bunch of clueless busybodies, IMHO…
This is great, but what we need is “Or else each and every one of us will put up signs telling our patients who is killing them and our staff who is putting them out of jobs, and contribute to your opponents, even your nutbar rivals in the republican primaries.”
Once upon a time, hospitals saying “YOUR HEALTH CARE BILL IS TERRIBLE, IT STINKS ON ICE” would have been, if not politically poisonous, at least something that might slow down passage for, oh I dunno, a week or two.
Thank goodness Mitch McConnell has streamlined the process!