The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates 22 million Americans would lose health coverage under the Senate GOP bill, the Better Care Reform Act. Estimates of the number of North Dakotans who would lose coverage range from 31,100, according to the congressional Joint Economic Committee, to 70,000 from the Urban Institute.
Jun 28 2017
The Bismark Tribune (North Dakota) - Protesters urge Hoeven to reject Senate GOP health reform bill
Monthly health insurance premiums would increase by $794 in 2018, according to the Joint Economic Committee’s calculations. Under the Senate GOP bill, those with incomes of up to 350 percent of the federal poverty level would be eligible for premium subsidies, compared to 400 percent under the Affordable Care Act.
About 1.6 million people would lose coverage next year, and by 2026 the state would lose $24 billion in federal money for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid health care plan for the poor, Feinstein told reporters in a conference call with fellow Democrats Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Kamala Harris. "It's the most indefensible bill I've actually seen in 24 years in the Senate," Feinstein said.The numbers came from the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, Congress' Joint Economic Committee and the state of California, according to Feinstein's office.
Joint Economic Committee Democrats released an overview of today’s non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score of the Senate TrumpCare bill, which finds that 22 million people will lose insurance by 2026 compared with the current law. The summary explains what the CBO analysis of the Senate TrumpCare bill would mean for Medicaid enrollees, older and low-income Americans, and those with substance abuse disorders and pre-existing conditions.
Jun 27 2017
Heinrich Leads Press Conference On Harmful Impact Of Senate Health Care Bill On The Opioid Crisis
Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, hosted a press conference with U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) to highlight the devastating impact that the Senate Republican health care bill would have on curbing the opioid epidemic. Additional speakers included Michael Botticelli, Executive Director, Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center, and Dr. John Aldis and Shelby, who were recently featured in a New Yorker story about the opioid epidemic.
Jun 26 2017
May Economic Snapshot of the States
Joint Economic Committee Democrats today released the “May Economic Snapshot of the States,” which tracks state economic performance, families’ economic security, how well states are preparing for the economic future with investments in people’s health and learning, and the costs of living that weigh on working families’ minds.
Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking minority staff member on the Joint Economic Committee, said in a recent statement. If government helps less, then families and individuals will have to pay more to get the same insurance benefits.
Joint Economic Committee Democrats today released a fact sheet on the Senate Republican health care bill that will help the wealthiest at the expense of hardworking American families while putting corporate executives back in charge of Americans’ health care. The bill reverses the progress made in expanding access to, and containing costs of, health care.
Jun 22 2017
Heinrich Rejects Republican Health Care Bill, Says It's Everything We Feared it Would Be
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Joint Economic Committee, is rejecting the health care proposal released today by Senate Republicans. For weeks, a small group of Senate Republicans worked behind closed doors without bipartisan input to draft the bill based on the health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
For rural families in particular, U.S. health care policy is lacking. Though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offered some solutions, it's by no means sufficient in practice. A proposed alternative should work to meet the needs of rural families a bit better. That's why what Trumpcare would do to rural hospitals, according to a report released by Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, is so troubling.