"Patriarchy: System of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it."
Focused Read in 1 minute & 30 seconds
"Experts Say The New
Trumpcare Bill Will Have Devastating Effects on Women
Healthcare say that the
Graham-Cassidy Bill, the latest iteration of the Republican
legislative effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act,
will be, for women, the worst version of the bill yet.
Like the previous repeal
and replacement efforts, the Graham-Cassidy bill removes vital
Obamacare protections for those with preexisting conditions and
coverage of essential health benefits like maternity care. “One
thing is that women won’t have access to reproductive healthcare
like birth control, so they won’t be able to prevent getting
pregnant,” said Dr. Kristyn Brandi, a Los Angeles OB/GYN and fellow
with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
The brainchild of Senators
Bill Cassidy (R-La) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the latest Trumpcare
bill slashes federal health care spending, including Medicaid, and
would defund Planned Parenthood, instead, proposing block grants for
states to control their healthcare markets.
Amy Friedrich-Karnik,
senior federal policy adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights,
pointed to a statistic from progressive think tank the Century
Foundation that estimates 13 million women will lose access
to maternity care services if the ACA is repealed.
Friedrich-Karnik explained
that the bill also blocks Medicaid patients from using Planned
Parenthood, which bars access to essential preventative care like
birth control, cancer screenings, and STD testing and treatment. “It
also slashes Medicaid overall and into the future, and so really
impacting particularly low-income women and women of color who rely
on Medicaid broadly for their health care,” she said. According to
the Kaiser Health Network, Medicaid pays for nearly half of all
births in America and covers family planning services for 13.5
million women.
“Once they are pregnant,
a lot of them rely on things like Medicaid to get coverage for their
maternity. So if they cut Medicaid, then women won’t have access to
OB/GYNs to get prenatal visits. Those with private insurance will
suffer, too. “It’ll go back to the old rules,” Brandi said,
“where maternity care is a pre-existing condition and so patients
won’t be able to access care because they have this preexisting
condition of pregnancy.”
Furthermore, the block
grant model wouldn’t offer enough funding to make up for the
federal cuts, says Friedrich-Karnik. “If something there were to
come up in state, whether it be inflation, whether it be health care
crisis in that state, whether it be a natural disaster—anything
that might require a fluctuation of the money that a state needs to
ensure that all of its citizens the healthcare coverage that they
need—it does not account for that,” she says. “It’s just a
block of money, and once that money runs out, the support that people
get runs out.”... "
You
can read more here
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As I've said before, many times: Trump is the biggest #BigLies teller in my lifetime & GOP is complicit by both its silence and it's own #BigLies telling!
Last night Jimmy Kimmel outed Senator Bill Casey as a #BigLies teller on Trumpcare in front of his approximately 2 million viewers.
(As of 4:42 a.m. this morning, the clip is trending at #5 and that's before most of the world is "woke.")
"Jimmy shares his thoughts on Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham’s new health 'care' bill including why it doesn’t pass Cassidy’s 'Jimmy Kimmel Test' AND How CASSIDY LIED TO HIS FACE...” (Emphasis is mine!)" See 7-minute video below:
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( You can find the clip here if you need it )
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You can share Rob Reiner's Tweet here
( You can also read more about the committee in my Facebook post on Progressive Democrats - Moving Forward, Not Back here )
AND, keep calling your Representatives in D.C. to tell them to #StopGrahamCassidy until their time is up! TY!
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