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 we’re 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 Post’s 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 four Pinocchios for claiming that 36,000 people a year will die if the ACA is repealed; Brookings Institution fellow Henry Aaron, meanwhile, predicted that Republicans probably will salvage much of the ACA’s gains, and conservative writer Grover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 don’t 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, it’s already underway using a legislative vehicle that requires only 50 Senate votes), replacement
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Which ones?
And how many abortions are there yearly?????
Steffie Woolhandler. What a moniker!
It surprised me this came out before the suddenly huge homeless numbers.
Far fewer than Islam will kill........
Where do they get this stuff?
Mr. Woodhandler’s article is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3516729/posts#comment
probably, but you know they’ve just GOT to scare the stuffing out of people.
Trump isn’t going to kill thousands by getting rid of this BS, he’s going to help us be able to afford the Insurance we actually need, NOT what Obammie said we need.
BUT, first I wish he’d be sure to get rid of the fines we face this year for NOT buying what Obammie was selling.
How many lives will be saved by repealing Roe vs. Wade?
43,000 snowflakes are going to croak if Trumps undoes Obama’s legacy?
ROFL!
good.
Well. according to the momunists, guns kill 10 times that many people every year. ;-)
Why should liberals care, they murder a half million babies every year. This 43 thousand is just a drop in the bucket.
More “serious but unverified” fake news.
We will hear Trump killed the husband of Romney’s female employee that we all know he killed.
I don’t know why the Democrats fuss over it- they’ll still vote straight Democrat.
Oh yeah? Obamacare killed 50,000 people annually when it was enacted by the Democrats. How’s those alternative facts!
And they are losing coverage how? They haven’t cut anything yet.
Make it 2 million. I can take figures from the air too.
I bet that relying on the washington pest for “news” kills more people each day.
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