It's time to shut the insurance industry down and go to a Medicare-for-all-style system. Almost every developed country except the United States has some version of a single-payer system.

Issues and cost of healthcare, need to be experienced by all, especially by those who decide for the rest of us.

Trumpcare will take back all of the progress we have made for genetic testing, privacy, and cost.

The Paul Ryan American Health Care Act would eliminate approximately 15 MILLION people that currently have healthcare insurance to once again being WITHOUT healthcare insurance. The Paul Ryan American Health Care Act would ELIMINATE federal monies designated to each State's Medicaid program to help cover the cost of citizens in that state being added for healthcare coverage. The Paul Ryan American Health Care Act would FORCE local hospitals to treat individuals ONLY through the emergency rooms across American and in rural communities would FORCE hospitals to close. The Paul Ryan American Health Care Act includes an "age tax" that would force Americans age 50 to 64 to pay THOUSANDS more for health care. The Paul Ryan American Health Care Act weakens Medicare – that could open the door to benefit cuts or turning Medicare into vouchers that would NOT provide enough funds to actual receive health insurance coverage. Between the age tax and the reduced tax credits, premiums will soar, especially for persons 50 to 65 years of age, and rate hikes could be as high as $8,000 more just to keep the same coverage. And, the Paul Ryan American Health Care Act takes the LIMITS off how much MORE insurance companies can charge older Americans going from 3% to over 5% for the cost of the monthly premiums. Finally, the Paul Ryan American Health Care Act DOES NOT REQUIRE that mental health services be provided, nor preventative health services. These are just a few of the problems in Paul Ryan's American Health Care Act. Does this sound like it going to help or hurt you, or someone you love?

Anyone hoping to be over 50 someday must stand against TRUMPCARE now for their own future healthcare needs, and the healthcare of all Americans.

It seems the Republican President, Republican Senate, and Republican House thinks that the lower and middle class can afford high premiums, high deductible's, high out of pocket expenses, and out of control prescription prices. I am a disable person. My premium costs for insurance right now takes one -third of my disability pay. I can't even get out of my deductible and out-of- pocket costs before the next year renewal starts. My bills keep mounting. My message to our leaders is try to walk in our shoes. If they really cared about the lower and middle class, they would really fix healthcare instead of issuing vouchers that don't work, or requiring us to buy private insurance which we can't afford. None of them are lower or middle class, so stop pretending that you care and that you are going to fix this. My solution is that if Congress and the President think this is an easy fix, let them work for minimum wage or live on Medicare or SSDI. I bet if they were in the average lower and middle class family situation of working two jobs or more, paying for all living expenses and then trying to pay for healthcare, with its high deductible's, high out-of-pocket costs, high premiums, and then prescription drugs along with that, there would be a great change in healthcare.

In a pre-dawn meeting last week, the majority Republican House Ways And Means Committee voted to approve the Trump/Ryan repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and replace it with a bill that would deprive the most vulnerable American citizens of insurance and raise premiums and limit coverage for most of the rest of us, all in the name of a $600 billion tax cut for the very wealthy. They should be on notice that we are watching and we will not sit passively.

Ohio Department of Health refused TODAY to reconsider or even entertain a conversation about the 2017-2018 fiscal funding of the Ryan White part B funding. The State stands on their undefined and undefended decision to defund Ryan White Part B funding to the Aids Task Force of Greater Cleveland.

From our friends at HCAN: The Republican bill to gut the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid takes health coverage away from millions of Americans – from seniors to children – will force people to pay much, much more for, high-deductible insurance and blows a huge hole in state budgets, while giving massive tax cuts to the very wealthy and drug and insurance corporations. And it defunds Planned Parenthood. Key Points: · The Republican bill guts the Affordable Care Act and slashes Medicaid. · The Republican bill takes coverage away from millions of Americans by drastically cutting tax credits to buy coverage and by making enormous cuts in state funding for Medicaid. · The Republican bill will hike the cost of health insurance for millions of Americans, with the biggest increases for seniors and moderate-income working people. · The Republican bill hike premiums by 30% for people with pre-existing conditions if for any reason – such as losing a job – they don’t have coverage for 63 days. · The Republican bill pushes people into high-deductible insurance plans and ends the ACA program that limits out-of-pocket costs to many working families. · The Republican bill ends Medicaid expansion and slashes state funding for the regular Medicaid program by radically changing the way Medicaid is funded. States will be forced to end coverage and eliminate health care services for seniors, people with disabilities, children and working families. · The Republican bill gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and to drug, insurance and medical-device companies – it even has a special tax break for health insurance CEOs. · The Republican plan defunds Planned Parenthood.

Congress wants to get rid of Obamacare but they can't decide what they will do to replace it. There is a simple solution: let them offer all of us the same health benefits that they, the members of congress get! if it is good enough for them, it should be good enough for us and it would eliminate a lot of bipartisan infighting.

Speaker Ryan changed the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) rules regarding how the CBO is allowed to evaluate the repeal of the ACA. Previous CBO reports estimated the federal deficit would explode if the ACA was repealed. House and Senate rules required sunset provisions on laws that impact the Federal deficit, and simple majorities can't repeal such laws. Americans need accurate, unbiased information regarding the cost and impact on the Federal deficit of the repeal of the ACA and how many people will be hurt. Ryan's rule changes have destroyed the independence of the CBO.

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