Forget ObamaCare, RyanCare, Or Any Future ReformCare - The Healthcare System Is Completely Broken
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
It's time to start planning for what we'll do when the current healthcare system implodes.
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Republican Lawmaker Quits Freedom Caucus Over Healthcare Bill Disagreement
Republican Representative Ted Poe resigned from the House Freedom Caucus on Sunday in disagreement over the conservative group's role in sinking President Trump healthcare plan. He suggested his resignation was because he wanted to vote for the Republican healthcare proposal which was adamantly opposed by the right-wing caucus.
“I have resigned from the House Freedom Caucus,” Poe said in a statement. Poe broke with the House Freedom Caucus’s views of the GOP healthcare proposal and planned to vote for the bill, which House leaders ultimately pulled from the floor on Friday.
Why Middle Class Whites Are Dying Faster (In 6 Painful Charts)
Authored by Julia Belluz via Vox.com,
In 2015, a blockbuster study came to a surprising conclusion: Middle-aged white Americans are dying younger for the first time in decades, despite positive life expectancy trends in other wealthy countries and other segments of the US population.
The research, by Princeton University’s Anne Case and Angus Deaton, highlighted the links between economic struggles, suicides, and alcohol and drug overdoses.
"If They Want To Blow It Up, They Can" - How Republicans Can Hobble Healthcare Without Repeal
Following President Trump's clarifying tweet yesterday that "Obamacare will explode" on its own...
ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017
It is becoming increasingly clear that, even without the 'repeal', the Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of Obamacare.
Why The Healthcare Reform Bill Went Down In Flames
Via Global Macro Monitor,
OK, comrades, let’s check our partisanship at the door and deal with some real analysis on the health care bill that just went down in flames. Here are a few of our thoughts on why the Trump/Ryan healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare went down and some economics behind it...
1) Most important, the bill had no support throughout the country. The latest poll released Thursday afternoon showed that only 17 percent of the country supported the plan.