Healthcare

House Republicans Will Vote to Kill a Lot of People Today

8 years ago
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Written by SK Ashby

The Death Panel has finally arrived and it is the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

House Republicans have scheduled a vote on Trumpcare 3.0 today and here's a brief list of horrible things included in it.

  • Cuts $800 billion from Medicaid
  • Defunds Planned Parenthood
  • Brings back pre-existing conditions
  • Eliminates essential health benefits like coverage for mental health and preventive care
  • Replaces premium subsidies with insufficient, age-locked tax credits
  • Brings back life-time limits, even for employer-based plans
  • Exempts members of Congress from the above features


    • And that's far from comprehensive. There are many other terrible things included in the bill.

    In March, the Congressional Budget Office scored Trumpcare 1.0 and found that it would lead to 24 million people losing their healthcare, but the bill has become significantly worse since then. Rather than remove various poison pills from the bill, Republicans added more poison.

    There is no CBO score for today's bill and Republicans are rushing to pass it now because they know a score could kill it.

    No one has actually read the full text of the revised bill even though they're voting on it today.

    The bill is not open to amendments, and very little debate on the floor is being allowed before they pull the trigger.