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Republicans Are Building An Alternate Reality Around Their Health Care Bill
Does this plan cut Medicaid? Of course not. Does it protect people with pre-existing conditions? You betcha.
05/07/2017 Updated May 8, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-are-building-an-alternate-reality-around-their-health-care-bill_us_590f3160e4b0104c734f95d5 [with embedded video]


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Decoding HHS Secretary Price’s spin on the American Health Care Act

“The fact of the matter is that Medicaid spending under the proposal and under the budget goes up every single year.”
“We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense. I’m not going to participate in your program because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ So, they are paying a penalty.”
— Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, interview on CNN’s “State of the Nation,” May 7

May 8, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/05/08/decoding-hhs-secretary-prices-spin-on-the-american-health-care-act/ [with comments]


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My Pre-Existing Condition Wasn’t A Choice

Because of the protections of Obamacare, insurers were no longer allowed to put my health at risk.
05/06/2017 Updated May 8, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/in-life-we-have-choices_us_590df3f1e4b0f71180724500


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Illustrator Sums Up The Injustice Of AHCA In One Heartbreaking Drawing

“No one should have to choose between death and remaining alive but being unable to afford to live.”
05/05/2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/courtney-privett-health-care_us_590b8f29e4b0e7021e95fdf8


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A lot of Republican rhetoric on health care this weekend may haunt the party in 2018

May 8, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/08/this-weekend-saw-a-lot-of-republican-rhetoric-on-health-care-that-may-haunt-the-party-in-2018/ [with embedded videos, and comments]


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