A Look at Cruz’s Arguments on the ACA Debate
Is the aim of our health-care system to care for human beings or to generate profits for corporations?
Is the aim of our health-care system to care for human beings or to generate profits for corporations?
The ACP asserted that repealing the ACA would lead to many uninsured patients and coverage loss for those with preexisting conditions.
Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Josh Earnest comment on the upcoming ACA repeal initiated by the Trump Administration.
Though many would support changes, only 15% want the law completely dismantled.
However, nearly 1 in 7 of those with a chronic disease still lack coverage.
The ACA is likely to be partially or fully repealed, though it is uncertain how physician practices and the benefits of the 20 million newly-insured will be affected.
Waiving costs appears to improve mammography rates, but not colonoscopy — even among the poor.
“We don’t yet know for sure what the Republican ‘replacement’ for the ACA is going to be, because they don’t know themselves.”
There were greater reductions in readmission rates compared with those at non-penalized hospitals.
The ACA has acted as an enzyme that accelerated the “corporate buyout” of our health-care system.