In response to the latest imagined calamity plaguing the troubled minds of poor little proggies.
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Here We Go: Harvard Professors Claim Thousands Will Die If Obamacare is Repealed
Now, Harvard professors are piling on the fear mongering by claiming at least 43,000 people will die if Obamacare is repealed.
First, it's important to remember who brought us Obamacare: professors. Take for example MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber. He's the guy who called Americans stupid and advocated for a lack of transparency in order to get away with an increase in healthcare costs through Obamacare.
Second, people weren't dying in the streets before Obamacare and they won't be dying in the streets after Obamacare is repealed. Certainly not by the thousands. You will however find thousands of deaths over at the VA, where veterans are still waiting for healthcare.
Third as President Trump, Speaker Ryan and all Republicans have been saying for years, Obamacare will not be repealed without a viable replacement that keeps those previously insured covered in the future.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavli ... d-n2275592$1:
Death by repeal? If you cook the data, yes
"It makes me think of the Mark Twain quote about lies, darned lies and statistics, because there is a little bit of manipulation going on here," Manning offers. "In fact, when Senator Bernie Sanders [I-Vermont] made a similar claim, the Washington Post fact checker gave him Four Pinocchios. So I think this is a bunch of bunk."
The warning from Himmelstein and Woolhandler comes after claims and concerns that repealing ObamaCare will cut jobs and add to the deficit. Manning contends a lot of fear-mongering is going on.
"They cited some statistics about Medicaid coverage and how Medicaid coverage prevents death, but there's a couple problems with that," she explains. "One thing is that giving someone health insurance coverage through Medicaid and taking it back are two different things – and the effect isn't always one to one."
Manning adds that another important study that was also published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at the Medicaid expansion in the state of Oregon. That study found that there was no measurable impact on the health of the people who enrolled in Medicaid versus people who are uninsured.
"So we have to keep in mind that you can make the numbers say whatever you want to, but Medicaid is not the best way to insure people," she continues. "Private insurance is much better. And if we want those low-income Americans to have better healthcare and better outcomes, we have to focus on reducing the root cost of healthcare and private health insurance instead of throwing them into Medicaid, which I think is a lazy way to try to solve their problems."
https://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-gov ... e-data-yesAnd just who are David Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler anyway? They are Harvard professors. Yes, and...
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Doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are the two leading lights of the single payer movement. As such, they have been harshly critical of Obamneycare.
Most recently, Woolhandler appeared on Democracy Now on January 9 and said “at this point, it’s pretty clear the American people got a good look at Obamacare and said – this is not a solution, this is not working.”
“And many of them do in fact support the idea of a single-payer Medicare for all. And that’s what we need to be pushing right now.”
“Well, we need to be saying that we need to go beyond the Affordable Care Act to a single-payer system,” Woolhandler said. “Merely trying to defend the Affordable Care Act at this point is not going to work. The American people have seen it for three years and rejected it. And, you know, 20 million people got insurance, and that’s great, but there were 280 million people who saw no improvements in their healthcare.
They still can’t afford healthcare despite having private insurance, because of the co-payments and the deductibles in those narrow networks. So we need to go to a system that fixes the healthcare system for everyone.
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/2017/0 ... oom-floor/Not even the co-writer of the paper you're putting forward as final evidence believes the ACA is going to improve everybody's healthcare.
WaPo edited a key bit of information out to create a kind of "fake news" repost.
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That’s why it came as a bit of a shock that Himmelstein and Woolhandler penned an opinion piece for the Washington Post today titled “Repealing the Affordable Care Act will Kill More than 43,000 People Annually” defending Obamneycare and not mentioning single payer.
It just didn’t make sense.
And of course, it wasn’t true.
Woolhandler and Himmelstein did state their preference for single payer in their original submission to the Post.
It’s just that it got cut out by the editors.
Without permission.
And without explanation.
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