Latest Version of Senate Health Care Bill Fundamentally the Same as Previous Versions

Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/07/14/latest-version-of-senate-health-care-bill-fundamentally-the-same-as-previous-versions/#.WWjzB4TysdU By Families USA July 14, 2017 Editor’s note: This piece was written by Families USA’s Eliot Fishman, Senior Director of Health Policy, Dee Mahan, Director of Medicaid Initiatives, and Lydia Mitts, Associate Director of Affordability Initiatives. It was originally posted on Families … Continued

New Health Care Bill, Same Problems for PA

Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-07-14/health-issues/new-health-care-bill-same-problems-for-pa/a58518-2 July 14, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., still may not get the 50 votes needed to pass the latest version of the health-care … Continued

New Estimates of the Loss of Federal Funding to Pennsylvania from the Senate Health Care Bill

Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/new-estimates-loss-federal-funding-pennsylvania-senate-health-care-bill Jul 08, 2017 10:37 am | Marc Stier The Manatt Health Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a new study of the impact of the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act … Continued

Senate Health Care Bill Ends Medicaid as We Know It, With Even Bigger Cuts Than House Bill

Posted at http://www.cbpp.org/research/health/senate-health-care-bill-ends-medicaid-as-we-know-it-with-even-bigger-cuts-than-house The Senate’s Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) would radically restructure Medicaid financing and effectively end the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion, cutting federal Medicaid funding by $772 billion over ten years and reducing enrollment by 15 … Continued

Senate Bill Raises Marketplace and Employer-based Premiums for Most Pennsylvanians

Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/senate-bill-raises-marketplace-and-employer-based-premiums-most-pennsylvanians Jul 05, 2017 09:23 am | Marc Stier We have been focused recently on the impact of the Senate health care bill on Medicaid, mainly because the dangers of both the House and Senate bills to Medicaid … Continued

Senate GOP Trying to Force Vote on Trumpcare Before August Recess—Tell Senator Toomey NO

From One PA (http://www.onepa.org/): From what we’re hearing out of Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are planning to release an updated version of their health care “reform” bill this afternoon to force a vote on Trumpcare before the August recess. Regardless … Continued

Effects of U.S. Senate Health Care Bill on Pennsylvania

Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/june/memo-effects-us-senate-health-care-bill-pennsylvania Jun 28, 2017 03:04 pm | Marc Stier MEMO To: Interested Parties From: Marc Stier, Director, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Date: June 28, 2017 Re: Effects of U.S. Senate Health Care Bill on Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania … Continued

Despite Delay, Resistance Doubles Down Against Deeply Unpopular Trumpcare Bill

Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/28/despite-delay-resistance-doubles-down-against-deeply-unpopular-trumpcare-bill Published on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 New poll shows just 17 percent of Americans support Republican bill By Julia Conley, staff writer Americans across the country have mobilized this week to stop the Republican effort to pass … Continued

Senate Health-Care Plan Called “Worse” for PA

Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-06-23/health-issues/senate-health-care-plan-called-worse-for-pa/a58246-1 June 23, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window A report says as many as 125,000 Pennsylvania children would lose Medicaid health coverage under the new Senate GOP plan. (Val Gempis/Wikimedia … Continued