{"id":10758,"date":"2017-05-04T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2024-01-15T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:52:48","slug":"on-the-ahca-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10758","title":{"rendered":"On the AHCA Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-wrap\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-3124\" class=\"item entry\">\n<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<div class=\"row row-archive\">\n<p><em>HARRISBURG \u2013 Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, made the following statement following today\u2019s passage of the American Health Care Act by the U.S. House:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that will strip health insurance from 1.3 million Pennsylvanians, will lead to the pre-mature death of 3,250 Pennsylvanians for lack of health insurance, and will threaten the health insurance of five million Pennsylvanians with pre-existing conditions. If the the health care exchanges survive, premiums for older adults will skyrocket, making health insurance unaffordable for most Pennsylvanians between the age of 50 and 64.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation was never about improving health care. It was about giving $500 billion in tax breaks to the very wealthy and to big insurance and drug companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful that all of Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic members of Congress and four of its \u00a0Republican members of Congress in Pennsylvania were willing to put aside right-wing ideology to stand with their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvania families, including the thousands of people in our state who attended town halls, wrote letters, called their representatives, and fought against this bill, will not stop fighting to prevent this bill from becoming law.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG \u2013 Marc Stier, Director of the PA Budget and Policy Center, made the following statement following today\u2019s passage of the American Health Care Act by the U.S. House: \u201cToday the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that will strip health insurance from 1.3 million Pennsylvanians, will lead to the pre-mature death of 3,250 Pennsylvanians for lack of health insurance, and will threaten the health insurance of five million Pennsylvanians with pre-existing conditions. If the the health care exchanges survive, premiums for older adults will skyrocket, making health insurance unaffordable for most Pennsylvanians between the age of 50 and 64. \u201cThis legislation was never about improving health care. It was about giving $500 billion in tax breaks to the very wealthy and to big insurance and drug companies. \u201cWe are grateful that all of Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic members of Congress and four of its \u00a0Republican members of Congress in Pennsylvania\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10758\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":10759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[251,45],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AHCA-would-insure-24-million-fewer-.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2Nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}