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What’s That Sound? The Monster in the Budget
For all the talk about health care this election season, politicians of both parties are ignoring a giant sucking sound.
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For all the talk about health care this election season, politicians of both parties are ignoring a giant sucking sound.
That means, in his view, the tech giant has its search function “RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD.”
But a separate report for Medicare paints a somewhat bleaker outlook for the giant health program for seniors and people with disabilities, estimating that its hospital trust fund will dry up in 2026 —
Funding for Medicaid expansion in 31 states and the District of Columbia through 2026 also would come from those allotments.
The health care effort was attached to a budget process known as reconciliation, which traditionally comes to a conclusion with an all-night vote-a-rama session on the Senate floor, in which members
Votes could then be held on a number of different proposals that Republicans have released in recent weeks, all of which would in some manner repeal the law and implement a number of replacement measures
Dianne Feinstein has tweeted 10 times in the last 17 hours, all about the pending health care vote.
The former senator published his piece on the heels of a Congressional Budget Office report released last week that concluded 32 million more Americans would be without health insurance in 2026 under
Office estimated that the Senate GOP leaders’ latest iteration of their health care measure, to repeal the 2010 law with a two-year delay, would result in 32 million fewer people with health insurance by 2026
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said 23 million people could lose insurance coverage by 2026 under the House proposal.