It is no secret who pressured those democrats that voted to end the shutdown and pass the big ugly. Those politicians almost certainly will be responsible for thousands of deaths now. Literally thousands of people will not be able to pay for insurance and will then not go to the emergency room until they are so sick there is no saving them. The richest country on Earth in the 21st century is about Oligarchs as demi-gods and people as livestock.
The analysis, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI) and the Yale School of Public Health’s Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, finds:
- 11,300 deaths per year from the loss of Medicaid or Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage due to 7.7 million people losing coverage.
- 18,200 deaths per year due to the loss of Medicaid coverage among 1.38 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries, causing loss of access to low-income prescription drug assistance.
- 13,000 deaths per year among Medicaid enrollees in nursing homes due to the rollback of the 2024 nursing home minimum staffing rule.
- 8,811 deaths per year from the proposed bill’s failure to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits.
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