This isn't about the country or the American people and I am quite confident there is not bipartisanship.
September 18, 2017
By Jacob Leibenluft, Edwin Park, Matt Broaddus and Aviva Aron-Dine
In releasing a revised version (click here) of their legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, along with co-sponsors Dean Heller and Ron Johnson, claimed that their bill isn’t a “partisan” approach and doesn’t include “draconian cuts.” In reality, however, the Cassidy-Graham bill would have the same harmful consequences as those prior bills. It would cause many millions of people to lose coverage, radically restructure and deeply cut Medicaid, eliminate or weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and increase out-of-pocket costs for individual market consumers....
The Senate Republicans are throwing Senior Citizens overboard.
- Eliminate the ACA’s marketplace subsidies and enhanced matching rate for the Medicaid expansion and replace them with an inadequate block grant....
There are a lot of Senior Citizens that have Medicaid as a primary or secondary insurance.
- Convert Medicaid’s current federal-state financial partnership to a per capita cap, which would cap and cut federal Medicaid per-beneficiary funding for seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children.
Medicaid (click here) provides health coverage to more than 4.6 million low-income seniors, nearly all of whom are also enrolled in Medicare. '
Medicaid assists with quality of life problems as well as helps to pay medical bills. Medicaid assists with the cost of dental costs, medications, eyeglasses and hearing aids. Senior citizens will lose their support for the services they need. The disabled with have all their previous problems back with this Senate bill.
Medicaid also provides coverage to 3.7 million people with disabilities who are enrolled in Medicare. In total, 8.3 million people are "dually eligible" and enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare, composing more than 17% of all Medicaid enrollees. Individuals who are enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare, by federal statute, can be covered for both optional and mandatory categories.
Medicaid doesn't provide designer frames or dazzling dental implants. It provides basic care with annual check-ups and basic care. The eyeglasses are well made and are sturdy. The dental care provides for filling teeth or extraction and dentures when necessary. It is all basic care. It is necessary. Eyesight and hearing are quality of life issues and issues of safety. Dental care is vital for better general health.
Senior citizens and the disabled don't have the luxury of returning to work or seeking better investments. These are the folks that worked hard for a living. They should be ASSURED their care without this roller coaster ride by the USA Congress.
The country needs to end this assault on the working poor, disabled and elderly. Enough already.
People will die. Don't be responsible for it. End the assault of the US Senate on the most vulnerable in our country.
This new assault by the US Senate on the most vulnerable Americans won't have an assessment by the Congressional Budget Office. That is corruption. End it.
