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 four Pinocchios for claiming that 36,000 people a year will die if the ACA is repealed; Brookings Institution fellow Henry Aaron, meanwhile, predicted that Republicans probably will salvage much of the ACA’s gains, and conservative writer Grover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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I thought we were all going to die from global warming. Or is it we are all going to die because Trump is going to roll back EPA regulations? Or is we’re all going to die from nuclear war.
RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! We’re doomed!!!
Report: 300,000 Small Business Jobs Lost Due to Obamacare; Over 10,000 Businesses Shut Down
http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-jobs-lost-obamacare/
Hundreds on Medicaid Waiting List Die After Illinois Expands ObamaCare
http://townhall.com/columnists/nicholashorton/2016/12/13/hundreds-on-medicaid-waiting-list-die-after-illinois-expands-obamacare-n2259134?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
They never tell you how many will die if they don’t repeal obamacare.
I bet Jonathan Gruber contributed to the research for this story.
The plan the pub’s took off the shelf today would likely save up to 300,000 lives per year not including abortions. By seriously reducing healthcare cost and health insurance cost, you get a multiplier effect. When people pay their own med bill, they look for a better deal. that alone would drop prices 15-20%. If you get rid of the middle men (gov and insurance co) that’s another 40%. currently 1hr of md patient time requires 3hr of back office.)
If the trumpster gets the gov out of med, you could see a 75% reduction in cost and likely a 60% in spending. @ $2tr/yr that alone almost balances the budget.
86.67% of all statistics are made up.
But keeping it will kill 74,963.
I just pulled that from the top of my head the same way they did.
“...43,956 deaths annually.”
I hope they were all in the protests this weekend.
Funny, my post came directly after yours.
I don’t doubt your info. Good work, and thank you. I was being tongue-in-cheek with my posts. But it’s good to see you and others pushing back on the liberal narrative by providing opposing positive effects of repealing Obamacare. Me and my wife are fortunate to have good healthcare. Not so for my youngest daughter and her child, on Obamacare. She’s starting a new job next week that pays more than her old job, that’ll help offset healthcare costs. So much for the “Affordable” Care Act, a total disaster.
Harry Reid said 5000 would die per week without Obamacare...
All along, they have been saying that ‘[11 million are signed up for Obamacare’. NOW it suddenly is 20 million?
Funny how those same TWO numbers are part of the lies about the invading illegals here.
I hope he gets the right ones. That crowd at the march might be a good pool from which to draw.
They need to include how many are dying each year because they were FORCED from the insurance onto Obamacare.
Bwahahhahhahhhaha!
That right there, may be the dumbest headline I’ve ever read.
Why that's more than Cecil B. DeMille.
/obscure Blazing Saddles reference
Been on here a year or two. Top 5 post.
Almost as good as the campaign headline:
Same story as Chicago Tribune put out - fake scare tactics as the folks they are talking about have been kicking the bucket at a higher rate since Obama Care than before it.....
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