Posted on 01/23/2017 3:52:12 PM PST by mandaladon
Now that President Trump is in the Oval Office, thousands of American lives that were previously protected by provisions of the Affordable Care Act are in danger. For more than 30 years, we have studied how death rates are affected by changes in health-care coverage, and were convinced that an ACA repeal could cause tens of thousands of deaths annually.
The story is in the data: The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that for every 455 people who gained coverage across several states, one life was saved per year. Applying that figure to even a conservative estimate of 20 million losing coverage in the event of an ACA repeal yields an estimate of 43,956 deaths annually.
With Republicans efforts to destroy the ACA now underway, several commentators have expressed something akin to cautious optimism about the effect of a potential repeal. The Washington Posts Glenn Kessler awarded Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) four Pinocchios for claiming that 36,000 people a year will die if the ACA is repealed; Brookings Institution fellow Henry Aaron, meanwhile, predicted that Republicans probably will salvage much of the ACAs gains, and conservative writer Grover Norquist argued that the tax cuts associated with repeal would be a massive boon for the middle class.
But such optimism is overblown.
The first problem is that Republicans dont have a clear replacement plan. Kessler, for instance, chides Sanders for assuming that repeal would leave many millions uninsured, because Kessler presumes that the Republicans would replace the ACA with reforms that preserve coverage. But while repeal seems highly likely (indeed, its already underway using a legislative vehicle that requires only 50 Senate votes), replacement
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Has anyone found the $2,500 the Pretender promised he was saving everyone?
Who’s a$$ was this figure extracted from?
You’re all goin ta die!!!
Trump saved or created a million lives this year due to the improved economy.
Making up numbers is fun!
That’s Nothing.
Reading the Washington Post kills TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND a year!
Can President Trump change IRS stuff? Sorry for my ignorance.
>Why should liberals care, they murder a half million babies every year.
I know. Just think how great we could be with 500,000 more unwanted urban ghetto DinDus with their hands out, making us great.
...and then the seas will rise and we’ll all drown (except those who will be burned to death by all the exploding volcanoes). Women and children harmed most.
Oh, I’m surprised those have not come out already.
The homeless apparently only exist when a Republican is in the White House, right? /MSM
That's false. It will save 45 million people's lives.
See? I can make up bullsh*t numbers too.
Well WAPO, you are owned by Bezos who is worth $50 billion. Have him whip out his checkbook and take care of that problem quick like.
43,000 x $400/mo = 17.2 million monthly insurance premiums for A+ plans. He should be able to handle that with no problem. He probably wouldn’t even miss it.
They make it up.
Um, I believe he did that today.
You’re right. Why didn’t I think of that?
The only things that Trump is going to kill are corrupt politicians’ cash flow.
actually your not that far off. The ACA and Obama economy have conspired to do something never seen before. Life expectancies have fallen for both men and women about 3 months. You have to understand the damage Obama did to the economy, the 30 hr rule that killed full time employment (97% of net new jobs since Obama took office have been part time). hell just the shooting gallery that Chicago has become likely has dropped IL life expectance at least a few weeks.
More fake news. Booring!
The New England Journal of Medicine is full of horse apples.
And here I thought it would cost 78,000 lives per year.
Yet more winning... LOL
43,000...
That number has brown fecal matter on it, from whence it came.
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