Forbes: Trumpcare hits Children's Hospitals hard

[Tanuki]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/05/14/trumpcare-hits-childrens-hospitals-hard/amp/

"The nation’s children’s hospitals may see a harsh reduction in funding and reduced care for their patients should the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, replace the Affordable Care Act, new analyses show.

The ACA expanded Medicaid in 31 states that opted to do so, particularly for children who tend to qualify for such coverage in greater numbers than adults. The AHCA, which narrowly passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, would roll back the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and lead to 14 million fewer Americans with insurance by 2018; eventually, 24 million would lose coverage by 2026, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in March.
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The AHCA cuts more than $800 billion from state Medicaid budgets over more than a decade, hitting children’s hospitals particularly hard. “Children could see their healthcare cut by tens of billions of dollars,” the Children’s Hospital Association, which represents more than 220 hospitals, said. “Other changes contained in the bill would make the healthcare system worse for children, not better.”
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“Half of our pediatric patients are insured by Medicaid, many of whom are disabled or medically complex,” Lurie Children’s CEO Patrick Magoon said. “It would be very difficult for our hospital to absorb such massive cuts. We opposed these cuts in the House-passed legislation, and certainly hope the Senate bill under development will maintain Medicaid’s 50-year commitment to caring for our nation’s most vulnerable children.”

Children and the hospitals that treat them will also be hurt by potentially skimpier coverage that the AHCA allows in the individual market, particularly since the MacArthur Amendment. The AHCA allows states to gut protections for preexisting conditions and allows states the opportunity to eliminate certain essential health benefits, leaving coverage for children particularly vulnerable.".....(more)

[liberalmuse]

1. Children are not fetuses.

So, according to the GOP, "Fuck 'em!".

[guillaumeb]

2. Obviously the children made poor lifestyle choices if they are in a hospital.

Or so thinks the average GOP voter.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Heartless bastard!

I hope they all burn in hell for this.

[Tanuki]

4. Especially when we know that this is not being done to improve health and wellness,

but to provide massive tax cuts for the wealthiest.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Republicons say children should be allowed to work younger than 16 for less than min wage.

Then the wee ones would be able to afford health care.

[LenaBaby61]

7. Republicons say children should be allowed to work younger than 16 for less than min wage.

Yes, yes ...... back to the "good old days" when children were seen, worked to build "character" allegedly and never heard.

2011
Gingrich calls child labor laws ‘truly stupid’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/gingrich-calls-child-labor-laws-truly-stupid/2011/11/21/gIQAFYKHiN_blog.html

2016
Group Funded By Trump’s Education Secretary Pick: ‘Bring Back Child Labor’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-child-labor-acton_us_5836eb7fe4b000af95edf12e

Building "character."








And these post-reconstruction children's "work experiences" was even more diabolical:

[Tanuki]

6. Betsy DeVos think tank pushed for child labor

https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5836eb7fe4b000af95edf12e/amp

"A think tank funded by Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education pick recently advocated for putting kids back in the workforce.

The Acton Institute, a conservative nonprofit that is said to have received thousands of dollars in donations from Betsy DeVos and her family, posted an essay to its blog this month that called child labor “a gift our kids can handle.”

“Let us not just teach our children to play hard and study well, shuffling them through a long line of hobbies and electives and educational activities,” said the post’s author, Joseph Sunde. “A long day’s work and a load of sweat have plenty to teach as well.” ....(more at link)
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These people are evil incarnate.

(Edited to add, this is in response to Bernard's post above)

[Boomerproud]

8. I would ask anyone at the Acton Institute when the last time they did physical work or created

a "load of sweat". Nothing shocks me anymore.