Month: June 2017

Beaver County Times: Shapiro: Senate Health-Care Plan Would Hurt 175,000 Pennsylvanians Seeking Addiction Treatment

* Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has joined the growing chorus of opponents to the U.S. Senate Republican health-care plan warning that it will have an enormously negative impact on the battle against opioid addiction. * “No level of law enforcement can solve this problem completely,” Shapiro wrote. “Expanding access to treatment is critical. The ... Read more

Toomey’s Health Care Plan By The Numbers

Groups across the country have studied and analyzed Pat Toomey’s version of Trumpcare and their findings point to a consensus: it is a disaster. Whether it’s slashing Medicaid funding for substance-use disorder treatment or causing millions to lose health insurance, Toomey’s version of Trumpcare is awful no matter how you look at it. Here’s a ... Read more

Pittsburgh City Paper: Health-Care Workers, Policy Experts And Politicians Question Sen. Toomey’s Commitment To Opioid Epidemic

* As the opioid crisis has worsened across the country, and particularly in Pennsylvania, some are becoming critical of Toomey’s recent moves related to federal funding for opioid-addiction treatment. Toomey is one of about dozen U.S. senators who crafted the Republicans’ effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act. * ... Read more

Roundup: Toomey’s Plan Takes Health Care Away From 22 Million, Slashes Medicaid

Senator Toomey’s version of Trumpcare was scored by the CBO yesterday and the results were worse than than we thought. Despite Toomey’s claims that no one would lose coverage,  the non-partisan CBO determined that 22 million Americans would lose health care coverage and over $772 billion would be slashed from Medicaid which would force seniors ... Read more

District-Level Data Shows Full Impact Of Toomey’s Health Care Bill

With Barletta and Kelly’s Backing, Bill Forces Seniors to Pay More While Cutting Coverage for Hundreds of Thousands On everything from ending protections for those with preexisting conditions to slashing funding for nursing home care, Senator Toomey’s bill is an outright disaster for Pennsylvania. 731,000 Pennsylvanians will lose coverage, including more than 147,000 children and ... Read more

TOOMEY: No One Will Lose Coverage. CBO: False.

Pennsylvania senator Pat Toomey has spent the past week defending the bill he co-wrote. And while the senator who led the cuts to Medicaid told Pennsylvanians that “no one would lose coverage” under his health care plan… Toomey on WFMZ: “Nobody who qualifies is ever going to be kicked off.” Toomey on CBS: “No one ... Read more

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