Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump-Supporters soon to lose Obamacare, Medicare
Good to the point article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/seduced-and-betrayed-by-donald-trump.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump
Paul Krugman DEC. 2, 2016
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Yes, the white working class is about to be betrayed.
The evidence of that coming betrayal is obvious in the choice of an array of pro-corporate, anti-labor figures for key positions. In particular, the most important story of the week seriously, people, stop focusing on Trump Twitter was the selection of Tom Price, an ardent opponent of Obamacare and advocate of Medicare privatization, as secretary of health and human services. This choice probably means that the Affordable Care Act is doomed and Mr. Trumps most enthusiastic supporters will be among the biggest losers.
The first thing you need to understand here is that Republican talk of repeal and replace has always been a fraud. The G.O.P. has spent six years claiming that it will come up with a replacement for Obamacare any day now; the reason it hasnt delivered is that it cant.
Obamacare looks the way it does because it has to: You cant cover Americans with pre-existing conditions without requiring healthy people to sign up, and you cant do that without subsidies to make insurance affordable.
Any replacement will either look a lot like Obamacare, or take insurance away from millions who desperately need it.
What the choice of Mr. Price suggests is that the Trump administration is, in fact, ready to see millions lose insurance. And many of those losers will be Trump supporters.
You can see why by looking at Census data from 2013 to 2015, which show the impact of the full implementation of Obamacare. Over that period, the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 13 million; whites without a college degree, who voted Trump by around two to one, accounted for about eight million of that decline. So were probably looking at more than five million Trump supporters, many of whom have chronic health problems and recently got health insurance for the first time, who just voted to make their lives nastier, more brutish, and shorter.
Why did they do it? .............
dhol82
(9,352 posts)Lots of seniors with clout will be really pissy.
They have tried before and failed.
Hope it comes out the same this time.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)wcmagumba
(2,882 posts)Stupid, uninformed, haters (take your pick, women, minorities, lgbt, religious and many others), brainwashed by RW "news" and other categories. Sad...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)President Obama for this also.
mercuryblues
(14,526 posts)Cost saving measures for Medicare and Medicaid are tied to the ACA. When the ACA goes so will the savings seniors have been seeing. Trump voters are willing to pay more for medical treatment as long as those moochers don't get anything.
https://www.cms.gov/apps/files/ACA-savings-report-2012.pdf
riversedge
(70,175 posts)CTyankee
(63,899 posts)I have a daughter who will be hurt if Obamacare goes away. but she lives in Cali so the state insurance plan for people with limited means can pick her and her family up.