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Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
The impact of Republicans' war on Obamacare is likely to be worse than anyone expects.
By David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler January 23 at 9:22 AM
Now that President Trump is in the Oval Office, thousands of American lives that were previously protected by provisions of the Affordable Care Act are in danger. For more than 30 years, we have studied how death rates are affected by changes in health-care coverage, and we’re convinced that an ACA repeal could cause tens of thousands of deaths annually.
The story is in the data: The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that for every 455 people who gained coverage across several states, one life was saved per year. Applying that figure to even a conservative estimate of 20 million losing coverage in the event of an ACA repeal yields an estimate of 43,956 deaths annually.
Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually
Of course, life doesn't matter to the gop..The party of satan!
I can't believe these people. Are they seriously trying to claim this is accurate!
This is exactly why ignoring these people should be our goal. They make absolutely no sense, and lie through their teeth. Because they do that, they now have zero political power, which is a vicious circle that addresses why it is useless to even engage their lies in civil discourse!