Just About Every Major Medical Group Hates the GOP Health Care Plans

[n2doc]

by MAGGIE FOX


Groups representing pediatricians, cancer specialists, heart doctors and family physicians all agree: Both the House and the Senate offerings for fixing health care in the U.S. would make things worse, not better.

Within hours of its release, groups representing medical professionals were denouncing the Senate version, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act or BCRA.

“The Senate draft health care bill is literally heartless,” American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown said.

Here are five reasons so many medical professionals oppose the Republican-proposed changes made so far to the 2010 Affordable Care Act:

Women

Medicaid covers half the births in the U.S. right now and the House and Senate bills would both not only pull back the expansion of Medicaid that underlay Obamacare, but reduce federal funding for the original program, too.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[louis-t]

2. Unfortunately, this may require tens of millions

of people to just drop their health insurance. Just cancel. I will be one of them. The shock would force these morons to do something. Getting all my work done before the end of the year.

[n2doc]

3. I doubt that anything will change them

The only thing that'll create change is if people vote their sorry asses out of power. Then Democrats, as always, can try to clean up their mess. In my lifetime republicans have been headed in only one direction- into the sewer.

[Fresh_Start]

4. male doctors are more likely to support republicans than democrats

female doctors are the opposite.

So if you can choose a doctor after this disaster...choose a female she's more likely to be on the side of the angels.

[dalton99a]

5. True, but also age- and specialty-dependent:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-probably-a-republican-your-psychiatrist-probably-a-democrat.html

Your Surgeon Is Probably a Republican, Your Psychiatrist Probably a Democrat
Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz OCT. 6, 2016

[Hoyt]

6. Wish I thought it were for altruistic reasons. Providers are just afraid their pay will be cut

under Senate Bill. Under Senate Bill, reimbursement rates will likely be cut and there will be more people without any insurance. At this point though, any opposition is probably good.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Execellent article

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