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Mar 27 2017

Rural Americans Would Lose Under Trumpcare

America’s rural communities have long faced challenges with access to affordable health care insurance and services. Doctors and hospitals are farther away, higher poverty rates lead to worse health outcomes and lower coverage rates, and older populations result in more expensive coverage pools.

Mar 16 2017

Health Savings Accounts Are Not the Answer

The Republican plan would cause 24 million Americans to lose their health insurance, cut Medicaid by nearly $900 billion and take away key financial support from working Americans to give tax cuts to wealthy corporate executives.

Mar 15 2017

March Economic Snapshot of the States

These state economic snapshots survey the economic situation on the ground in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Although the U.S. economy overall continues its expansion from the Great Recession and associated financial crisis, the recovery can look very different from state to state, and even county to county. While some areas of the country have surged ahead, some regions are still struggling to regain their economic footing.

Mar 15 2017

Yet Again: Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship Forces Unnecessary Costs on All Americans

In 2015, Congress agreed to allow the Treasury to raise the money necessary to pay all the bills for our government’s spending obligations. That agreement will expire on March 16th, 2017 and barring Congressional action, the United States will immediately breach the debt ceiling, forcing Treasury to resort to “extraordinary measures” to prevent a default.

Mar 08 2017

Facts on the Republican Plan to Gut Medicaid

Medicaid provides an essential lifeline to around 70 million Americans who would otherwise be unable to afford health care and plays an essential role in containing overall costs in America’s health system.[i] The Republican plan would gut $370 billion from the Medicaid program over 10 years, putting mothers, children, and the elderly at risk of being kicked to the curb and throwing state government budgets out of balance.

Mar 08 2017

Republicans’ Plan to Repeal and Destroy Health Care

After six years and at least 60 votes in the House to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Republicans are using health care “reform” as a cover to give money to the wealthy and decrease coverage for American families. The so-called “plan” in fact merely cobbles together a handful of conservative pet projects that would put corporate executives back in charge of Americans’ health care system and help the wealthiest at the expense of hardworking American families.