After leading ACA repeal in the House, Trump praises Australia's universal healthcare

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3 Terrifying Facts About Gop Health Plan We Are Learning at the Last Minute

1. Out-Of-Pocket Caps In Large Employer Plans Are At Risk.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that out-of-pocket caps for people with catastrophic illnesses could return, meaning the money coming out of patients’ pockets would skyrocket again. Here’s the simple explanation:

Under the House bill, large employers could choose the benefit requirements from any state—including those that are allowed to lower their benchmarks under a waiver, health analysts said. By choosing a waiver state, employers looking to lower their costs could impose lifetime limits and eliminate the out-of-pocket cost cap from their plans under the GOP legislation.

This means if you are one of the roughly 159 million Americans receiving coverage through your employer, the GOP plan could make your insurance much more expensive when you get sick. The WSJ noted nearly 60 percent of employees had plans that carried these types of limits prior to passage of ACA.

2. AHCA Would Protect Just 5 Percent Of People With Pre-Existing Conditions.

A new study from Avalere Health released today showed only a tiny amount of people with pre-existing conditions would be protected under AHCA due to a gross lack of funding. CNBC noted:

The bill’s $23 billion in funding specifically for such people would cover just 110,000 Americans…

That’s only 5 percent of the 2.2 million current enrollees in the individual insurance market with some type of pre-existing chronic condition.

3. Special Education Students Would Take A Massive Hit.

Due to projected cuts to Medicaid, services to special education students would be potentially put on the chopping block, according to a report by the New York Times. This would mean an already strapped-for-cash area would get hit even harder:

AASA, an advocacy association for school superintendents, estimates that school districts receive about $4 billion in Medicaid reimbursements annually. In a January survey of nearly 1,000 district officials in 42 states, nearly 70 percent of districts reported that they used the money to pay the salaries of health care professionals who serve special education students…

But in a letter sent to top lawmakers this week, a coalition of school educators and advocacy organizations said such efforts would force states to “ration health care for children.”…

Under a little-noticed provision of the health care bill, states would no longer have to consider schools eligible Medicaid providers, meaning they would not be entitled to reimbursements.

http://reverbpress.com/politics/three-te...st-minute/

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Universal Health Care "makes people less likely to embrace Christianity."

According to

Mark Green, a Republican state senator from Tennessee who is President Donald Trump’s pick to be army secretary.

As the Washington Examiner reports, Green said in 2015 that it should be the Christian church’s role to help provide sick people with health care so they can more easily convert them to their religion.

“The person who’s in need… they look to the government for the answer, not God, and I think in that way government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the creation of an entitlement welfare state,” Green said. “In this setting, I’ll share the story, I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is.”

Green argued that since Jesus regularly used his powers to cure lepers, the modern-day church should take on a similar role.

“If you look at the Gospels and you go and study the Gospels, every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need,” he said. “It was either hunger or a disease.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/trump-ar...-to-jesus/