GOP's AHCA aka Trump-RyanCare

[Chicks]

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[finnbow]

Consumers Union (of Consumer Reports) weighs in on TrumpRyanCare:

— The replacement ensures broad enrollment in coverage. Grade: F
— Coverage must provide meaningful access to healthcare. Grade: F
— Coverage and healthcare marketplaces must be easy to navigate. Grade: F
— Reforms must address underlying reasons for high costs. Grade: F
— National standard that sets basic consumer protections. Grade: F

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) today received a failing grade from Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization arm of Consumer Reports. The consumer group sent a dismal report card to House members, along with a letter outlining the many failures of the health reform proposal. The report card comes the day before the House Budget Committee markup is scheduled.

We analyzed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and have assigned it a failing grade. As proposed, the bill would lead to tens of millions of consumers losing their insurance coverage (with poorer health outcomes and more premature deaths as a result), higher premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for many others, devastating cuts to Medicaid, and incentives for healthy people to stay out of the insurance market altogether. This is not the future that Americans deserve and is, simply, unacceptable.

http://consumersunion.org/research/a...finance&wpmm=1

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Consumers Union (of Consumer Reports) weighs in on TrumpRyanCare:

— The replacement ensures broad enrollment in coverage. Grade: F
— Coverage must provide meaningful access to healthcare. Grade: F
— Coverage and healthcare marketplaces must be easy to navigate. Grade: F
— Reforms must address underlying reasons for high costs. Grade: F
— National standard that sets basic consumer protections. Grade: F

The American Health Care Act (AHCA) today received a failing grade from Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization arm of Consumer Reports. The consumer group sent a dismal report card to House members, along with a letter outlining the many failures of the health reform proposal. The report card comes the day before the House Budget Committee markup is scheduled.

We analyzed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and have assigned it a failing grade. As proposed, the bill would lead to tens of millions of consumers losing their insurance coverage (with poorer health outcomes and more premature deaths as a result), higher premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for many others, devastating cuts to Medicaid, and incentives for healthy people to stay out of the insurance market altogether. This is not the future that Americans deserve and is, simply, unacceptable.

http://consumersunion.org/research/a...finance&wpmm=1

I'm shocked....SHOCKED....that the lefties at Consumers Union would trash this bill.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

I'm shocked....SHOCKED....that the lefties at Consumers Union would trash this bill.

Consumer Reports is left-wing? Who knew? I guess they're partisan when reviewing dishwashers, coffee makers and car tires.

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Consumer Reports is left-wing? Who knew? I guess they're partisan when reviewing dishwashers, coffee makers and car tires.

Consumer Reports is fake news - in the Trumpian alternate universe.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Consumer Reports is fake news - in the Trumpian alternate universe.

That has a name now, per Zbigniew Brzezinski: Wonder-wonder-wonder-land.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

I'm shocked....SHOCKED....that the lefties at Consumers Union would trash this bill.

You outta hear what those rabid communists at AARP are saying, Mike.

[donquixote99]

Obamacare wasn't perfect, but it was SOLID GOLD compared to what the Repubs will do.

[sheltiedave]

It was solid gold because it was a bipartisan effort that they spent a year planning. Trumpcare represents zero planning and no work.

[bobabode]

Consumer Reports gives the AHCA a failing grade across the board.


http://consumersunion.org/wp-content...ReportCard.pdf

Edit - Finnbow beat me to it.