Congresswoman Tenney recently commented on the failure to vote on the American Health Care Act. Her statement –
“I remain committed to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a high quality, patient centric plan that will improve and restore our healthcare system for all.
…Our most vulnerable citizens– seniors, the hardworking middle-class, and veterans – are in worse shape now than they were before.”
Let’s examine her statement.
Congresswoman Tenney clearly indicated she was leaning toward voting for the American Health Care Act during her telephone town hall meeting held on the evening of March 22. Unfortunately that legislation did little or nothing to “improve and restore our healthcare system for all.”
That is why it was opposed by the American Medical Association, National Physicians Alliance, American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals, America’s Essential Hospitals, Catholic Health Association of the United States, American Health Care Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Public Health Association, National Disability Rights Network, National Partnership Women and Families among many other organizations.
One has to ask what does Congresswoman Tenney, a lawyer and small business owner, know about “high quality, patient centric care” that these organizations do not know.
“seniors… are in worse shape than they were before.”
Seniors over the age of 65 are insured under Medicare. Here’s what the official U.S. government site for Medicare states regarding The Affordable Care Act (ACA).
1. Your Medicare coverage is protected.
2. You get more preventive services, for less.
3. You can save money on brand-name drugs.
4. Your doctor gets more support.
5. The health care law ensures the protection of Medicare for years to come. The life of the Medicare Trust fund will be extended to at least 2029—a 12-year extension due to reductions in waste, fraud and abuse, and Medicare costs…
Source: http://www.medicare.gov/…/affordab…/affordable-care-act.html
If you are having trouble discerning how this makes seniors worse off than they were before passage of the ACA, I completely understand.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare did as well. Their letter to The Honorable Kevin Brady, Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means, states “On behalf of the millions of members and supporters of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, I write to ask you to reject proposals being considered as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal that would harm seniors by driving up their out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and preventive services, and hastening Medicare’s insolvency.”
“veterans are in worse shape than they were before.”
Veterans are eligible to receive their health services from the Veterans Administration. What does that organization say about the ACA?
The Affordable Care Act, also known as the health care law, was created to expand access to coverage, control health care costs and improve health care quality and care coordination. The health care law does not change VA health benefits or Veterans’ out-of-pocket costs.
Source: http://www.va.gov/health/aca/index.asp
If veterans are in “are in worse shape” than they were before, as Congresswoman Tenney contends, it clearly has nothing to do with the ACA, despite her unsubstantiated claim that it does.
“the hardworking middle class … are in worse shape than they were before.”
I would question whether the hardworking middle class are “our most vulnerable citizens”. The middle class may be shrinking but that was happening long before passage of the ACA. If you manage to make it to the middle class you are doing better than many Americans. Nonetheless, it was not the “most vulnerable citizens” or the “hard working middle class” who were going to be the beneficiaries of the American Health Care Act.
According to an assessment by the Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan panel that provides research on tax issues, it was the rich who would benefit the most. Their analysis found that –
“by 2020, the repeal of the two tax provisions [included in the ACHA] would save about $15.9 billion a year for those with incomes of $1 million or more. By 2026, the final year of the analysis, they would combine to save that group a little more than $20 billion a year.
People making $200,000 to $999,999 a year would also get sizable tax cuts. In total, the two provisions would cut taxes by about $274 billion during the coming decade, virtually all of it for people making at least $200,000, according to a separate assessment by the committee.”
Those numbers are staggering to me and it also makes clear where the House Republican leadership and Congresswoman Tenney’s sympathies lie. It is not with our most vulnerable citizens.
Congresswoman Tenney recently commented on the failure to vote on the American Health Care Act. Her statement –
“I remain committed to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a high quality, patient centric plan that will improve and restore our healthcare system for all.
…Our most vulnerable citizens– seniors, the hardworking middle-class, and veterans – are in worse shape now than they were before.”
Let’s examine her statement.
Congresswoman Tenney clearly indicated she was leaning toward voting for the American Health Care Act during her telephone town hall meeting held on the evening of March 22. Unfortunately that legislation did little or nothing to “improve and restore our healthcare system for all.”
That is why it was opposed by the American Medical Association, National Physicians Alliance, American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals, America’s Essential Hospitals, Catholic Health Association of the United States, American Health Care Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Public Health Association, National Disability Rights Network, National Partnership Women and Families among many other organizations.
One has to ask what does Congresswoman Tenney, a lawyer and small business owner, know about “high quality, patient centric care” that these organizations do not know.
“seniors… are in worse shape than they were before.”
Seniors over the age of 65 are insured under Medicare. Here’s what the official U.S. government site for Medicare states regarding The Affordable Care Act (ACA).
1. Your Medicare coverage is protected.
2. You get more preventive services, for less.
3. You can save money on brand-name drugs.
4. Your doctor gets more support.
5. The health care law ensures the protection of Medicare for years to come. The life of the Medicare Trust fund will be extended to at least 2029—a 12-year extension due to reductions in waste, fraud and abuse, and Medicare costs…
Source: http://www.medicare.gov/…/affordab…/affordable-care-act.html
If you are having trouble discerning how this makes seniors worse off than they were before passage of the ACA, I completely understand.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare did as well. Their letter to The Honorable Kevin Brady, Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means, states “On behalf of the millions of members and supporters of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, I write to ask you to reject proposals being considered as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal that would harm seniors by driving up their out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and preventive services, and hastening Medicare’s insolvency.”
“veterans are in worse shape than they were before.”
Veterans are eligible to receive their health services from the Veterans Administration. What does that organization say about the ACA?
The Affordable Care Act, also known as the health care law, was created to expand access to coverage, control health care costs and improve health care quality and care coordination. The health care law does not change VA health benefits or Veterans’ out-of-pocket costs.
Source: http://www.va.gov/health/aca/index.asp
If veterans are in “are in worse shape” than they were before, as Congresswoman Tenney contends, it clearly has nothing to do with the ACA, despite her unsubstantiated claim that it does.
“the hardworking middle class … are in worse shape than they were before.”
I would question whether the hardworking middle class are “our most vulnerable citizens”. The middle class may be shrinking but that was happening long before passage of the ACA. If you manage to make it to the middle class you are doing better than many Americans. Nonetheless, it was not the “most vulnerable citizens” or the “hard working middle class” who were going to be the beneficiaries of the American Health Care Act.
According to an assessment by the Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan panel that provides research on tax issues, it was the rich who would benefit the most. Their analysis found that –
“by 2020, the repeal of the two tax provisions [included in the ACHA] would save about $15.9 billion a year for those with incomes of $1 million or more. By 2026, the final year of the analysis, they would combine to save that group a little more than $20 billion a year.
People making $200,000 to $999,999 a year would also get sizable tax cuts. In total, the two provisions would cut taxes by about $274 billion during the coming decade, virtually all of it for people making at least $200,000, according to a separate assessment by the committee.”
Those numbers are staggering to me and it also makes clear where the House Republican leadership and Congresswoman Tenney’s sympathies lie. It is not with our most vulnerable citizens.