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Posted: Jun 26, 2017

The Congressional Budget Office report has come out with the facts on TrumpCare.

CBO and JCT expect that this legislation would increase the number of uninsured people substantially. The increase would be disproportionately larger among older people with lower income—particularly people between 50 and 64 years old with income of less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level (single person making $26,760 per year.)

From AARP: AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond says the Senate bill imposes an “Age Tax” on older adults, which would allow insurance companies to charge older Americans five times more for coverage than everyone else and cuts the tax credits that help make insurance more affordable.

“AARP is also deeply concerned that the Senate bill cuts Medicaid funding that would strip health coverage from millions of low-income and vulnerable Americans who depend on the coverage, including 17 million poor seniors and children and adults with disabilities,” LeaMond said in a statement. “The proposed Medicaid cuts would leave millions, including our most vulnerable seniors, at risk of losing the care they need and erode seniors’ ability to live in their homes and communities.”

Republicans argue this is necessary because it would also let insurers charge younger people less, which would encourage younger and generally healthier people to come into the insurance pool — and therefore bring down the overall cost of health care by making it so more younger, healthier people are effectively subsidizing everyone’s care.

The CBO found that’s broadly true: It would bring insurance premiums down in general, and it would cost at least some young people less to get signed up for a health plan. But it would do all of that at a very high cost to older, particularly poorer Americans.

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AARP is just a left wing union. This is how leftist media - propaganda works. Medicaid

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rate of growth becomes "Senate Health Care Bill Expected to Cut Back Medicaid Expansion.”

Rolling back the eligibility cut-off to 138% of the poverty level in 2020 becomes a Medicaid "cut."

Do you know where Obamacare got the money for Medicaid? It took it from Medicare.

No matter what you call it, Obamacare, "Affordable Care - Act" (really? affordable?),

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Ryancare or Trumpcare it will never fix the runaway costs of healthcare in the US that are the highest in the world. We over medicate, overutilize, overdiagnose and overtreat our "sickcare" system.

Until we be honest on the root causes of the problem, nothing will change.

We have a failed food growing and processing system delivering too little nutrients and too many trace toxins that are impacting the health of Americans from the cradle to the grave. In turn, our healthcare providers are not addressing the issues of prevention and reversal of disease states. Doctors don't learn about nutrition.

Our corporate medical entities are the beneficiary and not the American public of a lobbyist designed healthcare system (both parties). In the meantime we will go deeper into debt with the excess cost of healthcare contributing around a TRILLION dollars per year.

Symptoms are "managed" and not cured. What do we do? Treat with drugs of course, many of us for the rest of our lives. I finally bolted. My heart disease was due to high insulin. Once I fixed it with fewer carbs and some intermittent fasting, no medication at all needed.

Then they push the cholesterol meds. Just look at statin sales!

I'm not saying changing your diet will solve everything. But it sure helped me so I just want to encourage people to help yourselves, you will feel better and save money. Buy broccoli, not potato chips or ice cream. Cut back on carbs like pizza and soda. Don't depend on the government to "fix" things.

The medical system treats symptoms with drugs. This does not address the root cause of some diseases. Some are merely vitamin and mineral deficiencies. he metabolic syndrome is a key cause of diabetes-2, heart disease and sometimes cancer. It is strongly correlated with insulin resistance, which in turn is caused by eating too much sugar and refined carbs.

Both parties have their knee-jerk lies to ensnare people. We MUST get beyond the petty politics of hatred that keep the people at each others throats. We must recognize that the system is failing. Political parties shed crocodile tears to buy votes.

Go ahead and laugh. But maybe at least one person will get it.

Emergency medicine should be addressed. When did the - ER become a doctor's office?

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Most of the ER's I do are NOT emergencies. Very few actually. This really needs to be addressed.

As far as wellness, our conventional medical system has no clue. They only TREAT symptoms, not cure anything. I'm not talking about an infection with antibiotics. I'm talking about acute problems.

I started taking magnesium capsules and it lowered my - blood pressure. I also take high

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doses of vitamin C and have a pretty strong immune system.

I was going to suggest an alternative health board, but - that might not go over very well on an

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MT board, traditional Western medicine that treats with Rx drugs for everything under the sun.

Why are no attempts being made to rein in the pharmaceutical.. - sm

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companies? They are the primary cause of our rising healthcare costs and there is barely a peep from anyone. Those lobbyists are handing out lots of money in Congress I think.

Obamacare is going as planned. Once people are on entitlements - it's hard to reform. A slow down in the rate

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growth becomes a cut.

How are we supposed to come together with people who say republicans are killing people? These scar tactics work.

We aren't going to come together until we - have national healthcare nm

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Affordable health care should not be considered - an "entitlement"

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Nor should Social Security, which we have all paid into, nor Medicare.

You know what I think is an entitlement? CEOs who get million dollar bonuses every year regardless of how the company does, and also on the backs of their lowliest workers not getting a living wage. In fact many workers need to rely on food banks, SNAP, and Medicaid because they are paid so low, yet these CEOs are still rewarded and the company's shareholders still get dividends. This is because they are allowed to exploit those workers and in the same breath complain about the cost of them, as if they are a line item.

The talking point about food stamps ballooning and users being lazy losers does not wash anymore because so many of them are working full time. In essence, we are all paying that CEO bonus in our taxes because he won't pay his workers enough and they qualify for federal programs. Now THAT should be illegal. Making it harder to qualify for food stamps is not the answer. A living wage is.

All Trump's talk about good paying jobs will never happen. These corporations will only pay the lowest they have to for ANY job and even more will be on food stamps and Medicaid - unless they do away with the programs altogether, which it seems like they are trying to do.

As far as workers like us or the average Wal-Mart or Mickey D worker (I am not lumping us all together, but come on, we are lumped together by our pay, sadly), they answer to their shareholders and their CEOs and they want profit profit profit, so why should they care if we are paid very little for a job which requires skill? They know we'll never organize.

Until all workers are respected with actual LAWS that protect our working conditions, including paid time off, sick time, our right to a living wage and affordable health care, and for sure CEOs should NOT be getting any bonuses if they have masses of employees on SNAP or Medicaid, these parasite CEOS and the top 1% will keep getting used to the entitlement that they get all the money from our labor and can do whatever they want with it.

The trickle down theory does not work. Giving tax breaks to corporations and the 1% in the hope they will create jobs is a strategy that has been debunked for 30 years since Reagan, yet the Republicans keep playing that sorry old record. Kansas, anyone?

Let's get those one-percenters off THEIR entitlement, hey?

I couldn't agree with you more. It really is - mind-boggling how people

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on this board who complain about their wages, the CEOs wages, the demeaning companies we work for could support republican policies. Some of them even have the audacity to say they deserve it because they worked so hard and are educated and had to pay for school and we are socialists/commies/whatever the word of the day is because we, at least I, don't think they do.

Instead of complaining about the "lazy welfare people" why don't you complain about the corporate welfare??? Many of those "lazy welfare people" wouldn't be on welfare if they had jobs that paid a wage that they could live on without having to rely on food stamps and other programs. I hear companies laying off people because they just can't afford to pay their employees and provide benefits while making million and billion dollar profits every year and giving CEOs multi-million dollar bonuses. It is sickening.

Amen! - I agree.

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Anyone working a full-time job, and sometimes 3 jobs in one family, who still needs assistance is not a reflection on them as a person, it is a reflection on their employer and the legislature that allows them to get away with it.

When someone else pays for it, it's an entitlement. - Like welfare, Medicaid, etc.

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Call it what you want, it's an entitlement.

But we pay for it too! As citizens we pay for - lots of things which are used by all

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Are roads and highways entitlements? Are the help we get when we suffer severe weather emergencies entitlements? Do you propose we all pay as you go for those things?

Why is it that all the things that the 1% use for free to run their businesses are not considered entitlements, and for that matter the huge military spending, yet health care and Social Security et al are?

NOT entitlements. Maybe others are paying for us but we pay for them too, just like other things.

So are the huge tax breaks. Entitlement by another name. - Top 1% and corporate, over 6 billion. nm

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It would really help if illegals who come here and get on welfare - and benefits for life would stop.

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There would be money to help our own including vets. But no dems want open borders and bring as many people here that have no intentions of assimilating or working. We can't be the saviors of the world when we can't even save ourselves.

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Open your eyes! No dems want open borders!! - You need to do a whole

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lot more research on illegals and welfare. We can't save ourselves because the wealthy have you convinced that it's the illegals that are "stealing" from you instead of the CEOs and corporations.

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