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House Republicans Will Vote to Repeal Obamacare and Kill People Today

Written by SK Ashby

While you're out having lunch today, House Republicans will vote in favor of throwing the entire healthcare system into disarray and kick tens of millions of people off their coverage.

via Bloomberg

While retaining parts of the Affordable Care Act, the measure would eliminate penalties for not complying with its requirement that individuals and large employers buy insurance for themselves and their workers. The Obama administration contends that would encourage healthy policyholders to drop coverage, causing a “death spiral” of rate increases for less healthy people who retain their policies.

The bill also would cancel, in 2018, the law’s expansion of the federal-state Medicaid health program for the poor, as well as subsidies for people who buy insurance coverage through federal or state exchanges.

To say the GOP bill would 'retain parts' of Obamacare is a gross overstatement.

Repealing any one of these policies would be disastrous, but repealing the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare would literally kill people. Hundreds of thousands of people are covered by Medicaid expansion in almost every state, with a few notable and cruel exceptions such as Texas where at least a million people are being denied coverage.

Repealing subsidies would also make coverage too expensive for millions more.

Why do House Republicans want to make healthcare more expensive? Why do House Republicans want to kill people?