Health and Wellness : Hospitals warn that repealing ObamaCare could spark 'unprecedented public health crisis'

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GOP Sen. Heller receives threatening note over health care


WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., received a note at his Las Vegas office over the weekend that reportedly threatened the senator if he voted to take away the note writer’s health care.

The note writer said he would die from losing insurance if Heller backed the Republican plan — and that he would take Heller down with him if that happened, according to veteran reporter Jon Ralston at the Nevada Independent ...


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https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-sen-heller-receives-threatening-note-health-care-192540773.html

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Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., after Senate Republicans unveiled their health care plan, July 13, 2017. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty)



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Yahoo NewsJuly 17, 2017


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GOP senator: Health care vote now ‘in jeopardy’ due to McConnell’s ‘breach of trust


WASHINGTON — A key Republican senator says the Republican health care bill is in “jeopardy” due to comments Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made to moderate senators behind closed doors.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told reporters Monday that he has confirmed with moderate GOP senators that McConnell, R-Ky., told them the bill’s biggest Medicaid cuts would never go into effect because they are so far in the future ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-sena...dy-due-mcconnells-breach-trust-231133162.html

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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. responds to reporters as he and other Senators arrive for weekly policy meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)




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Yahoo NewsJuly 17, 2017



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Congressmen seek revenge against the CBO for making Trumpcare look bad
No one could have seen this coming


The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has been a constant thorn in the side of congressional Republicans, repeatedly pointing out that Trumpcare would have a disastrous impact on the American health care system. The most recent version of Trumpcare, according to the CBO, would strip 22 million people of coverage by 2026 ...

https://thinkprogress.org/congressm...bo-for-making-trumpcare-look-bad-a1ebb9e8ed33

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Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sits with then-candidate Donald Trump CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci





Ian Millhiser

Justice Editor, ThinkProgress. Author of Injustices: SCOTUS’ History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted imillhiser@thinkprogress.org
Jul 24


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Even if Trumpcare fails, Obamacare’s foes have a plan B
Remember when presidents didn’t sabotage people’s health care?

... Should the bill fail, however, the law’s opponents do have a backup plan that could potentially cancel millions of people’s health plans.
Though this backup plan would not be nearly as harsh as the Trumpcare legislation — which has been projected to strip health coverage from an estimated 22 million people by 2026, and could therefore kill tens of thousand of Americans every year that it is in effect — the anti-Obamacare plan B could still visit havoc upon many health insurance markets ...



https://thinkprogress.org/trumpcare-plan-b-10fe995116d6

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CREDIT: AP Photo/Molly Riley






Ian Millhiser

Justice Editor, ThinkProgress. Author of Injustices: SCOTUS’ History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted imillhiser@thinkprogress.org
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