The correct names for these two health care acts.
I have written this poem;
I WILL NOT STAND SILENT
By Ricardo
I will not stand silent
When some want to go back
To polluting the air we breath
To polluting the water we drink.
And our so called leaders
Are writing executive orders.
To roll back the safe-guards
Of our Air and Water
Cost?
1.7 million child lives world wide.
This is not the way.
To make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
qui tacet consentire videtur
"Who is silent is seen to consent."
I will not stand silent
As a super-power
The world looks to us to lead
But not to lead in polluting
Our environment
So a few can make more money.
This is not the way.
To make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Quitacet consentit
Maxim of law is;
"Silence gives consent"
I will not stand silent
When our health care
Was repealed
By a promise of $8 billion USD
For some State high risk pools
After cutting Medicaid expansion.
This is not the way.
To make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
qui tacet consentire videtur
"Who is silent is seen to consent."
I will not stand silent.
To hate speech.
Even if its free speech.
To be silent.
Means one approve's.
That hate speech.
This is not the way.
To make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Quitacet consentit
Maxim of law is;
"Silence gives consent"
I will not stand silent.
To calling this new generation.
A bunch of 'Snowflakes'.
Or calling those that don't agree.
With their ideals.
A bunch of 'Snowflakes'.
This is not the way.
To make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi logui debuit ac potuit
"He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken.
And was able to, is taken to agree"
~ Ricardo
But this subject is too important not to point out who loses.
GONE under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Medicaid Expansion
Medicaid payment per person
The American Health Care Act cuts back substantially.
On federal funding for state Medicaid programs,
Maturnity Care
Diabetes Care
Mental Health Care
Addiction Care/Treatment
Employer Mandate
Out of Pocket subsidies
WHO GAINS under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
High-income earners
3.8 percent tax for the RICH
Tax credits based on age
Young middle-class people without pre-existing conditions
The Affordable Care Act cut off subsidies at an income of $48,000
For a single person.
The American Health Care Act would let people.
Get subsidies much higher up the income-scale.
They would get a lower rate from the insurance companies.
People who wish to go without insurance
The American Health Care Act would eliminate the individual mandate.
Which charges a tax penalty to Americans who can afford insurance.
But do not obtain it.
People who want less comprehensive health coverage.
The American Health Care Act allows insurers to offer health plans.
With higher deductibles and co-payments, a change likely to lower premiums.
Large employers
The American Health Care Act eliminates Affordable Care Act employer mandate.
Which required large employers to offer affordable coverage to their workers.
States
The American Health Care Act allows states to waive rules on minimum benefit standards.
And rules that prohibit insurance companies from charging higher prices to customers.
With a history of serious illness.
WHO LOSES under the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Older Americans 60+ years older,
The same factors that make the American Health Care Act.
For many young Americans.
Make it worst for those that older.
Insurance companies could charge five times a 64 year old American.
5 times the price charge of an 18 year-old American.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that far fewer older Americans.
Would have insurance coverage under the American Health Care Act.
Than under the Affordable Care Act.
Older middle class Americans
Changes in the subsidy formula would also require older middle-class Americans.
To pay a much larger share of their health insurance bill.
Young middle-class people with pre-existing conditions
The American Health Care Act mean cutbacks on coverage.
For mental health and drug addiction treatment.
Company employees
Americans just over the poverty line
Poor Americans
The American Health Care Act would also substantially reduce subsidies.
Available for Americans just over the poverty line.
The group that benefited most from Affordable Care Act ’s subsidies.
Poor Americans are much more likely to become uninsured under the American Health Care Act.
According to the Congressional Budget Office.
And those who retained coverage would pay.
Much more of their limited incomes on premiums and deductibles.
Planned Parenthood
The American Health Care Act would prevent Planned Parenthood.
From from receiving any federal money for one year.
A major hit for a health care provider that relies substantially on payments.
From Medicaid and the Title X family planning grant.
To provide contraception, cancer screenings and other women’s health services.
The American Health Care Act would also seek to reduce access to abortions.
By preventing federal subsidies from going to any health plan that covers abortions.
Pregnancy to cost 425% more under the American Health Care Act.
Hospitals
The American Health Care Act does not restore any Medicare cuts.
Hospitals in poor communities, where a lot people signed up for Medicaid.
Would probably experience the biggest hit.
Drug Addiction Treatment
The Trump administration is proposing to gut the budget.
Of the White House “drug czar” by 95 percent.
Effectively eliminating the decades-old Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The lead federal agency responsible for managing and coordinating drug policy.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp
Office of National Drug Control Policy - White House web page
message: "Check back soon for more information."
Drug addiction and mental health go hand in hand with each other.
The American Health Care Act makes rape an existing condition.
That translates to if women seek mental health care.
For any Post traumatic Stress as its now PC.
Inplace of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
That they experience due to being raped.
They will be denied because rape is now considered a pre-existing condition.
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