Facing the knowledge economy in small towns that can't compete with bigger towns.
Heath care is being threatened again. There is much to say about a decline!
~~~~~The report claims that 1 in 3 people in the U.S. drop out of high school and that 1 in 4 American families is low-income with parents who lack education and skills to improve their economic status. This maintains a cycle of poverty, affecting each new generation of children.
Low literacy is said to be connected to over $230 billion a year in health care costs because almost half of Americans cannot read well enough to comprehend health information, incurring higher costs. American Journal of Public Health.
https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/education-news-roundup/illiteracy-in-america
http://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2019/03/illiteracy-on-society-never-could-get.html
So with the cost of the poor only for others to get rid of all their unskilled labors for the knowledge economy in small towns that can't compete with bigger cities with more resources to a small town with people that have nothing, only to have a job skills gap for 25 years is a bad thing!
Health care is bad in smaller towns anyway to the fact many have insurance but can't afford to use it. But to then to kill off the ACA removing peoples healthcare driving up the cost to others to cover the cost of the uninsured. Cost in the workplaces with the liability issues of uninsured workers getting hurt at work unhealthy workers going right into workers comp driving up that cost to cover the increasing cases of people going into it. It's just a big pile of shit! Society is declining! Well who are the new middle class going to be? People that have cars vs the people that don't? Is that it, is that all we have?
~~~~~Trump administration now says entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down
Overturning the law would have far-reaching consequences -- way beyond disrupting coverage for the millions of people who get their health insurance on the exchanges or through Medicaid expansion.
Obamacare saves senior citizens money on their Medicare coverage and prescription drugs. It lets many Americans obtain free birth control, mammograms and cholesterol tests. And it allows children to stay on their parents' health insurance plans until they turn 26.
And, even the Trump administration is using the landmark health reform law to try to lower prescription drug prices.
The Trump administration would not defend the law in court so a coalition of 21 Democratic states led by California stepped in.
"This lawsuit is as dangerous as it is reckless. It threatens the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans across the country -- from California to Kentucky and all the way to Maine," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a statement. "The Affordable Care Act is an integral part of our healthcare system. ... Because no American should fear losing healthcare, we will defend the ACA every step of the way."
After November's midterm elections, the Democratic-led House of Representatives also moved to defend the law. In briefs filed with the appellate court, House lawyers said that if O'Connor's ruling were upheld "the consequences will be devastating."
"Millions of Americans will be denied affordable health care," the House lawyers wrote. They added that "insurance costs will skyrocket" and "Medicare recipients will face steep increases in the price of drugs and other services."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the administration's stance amounted to "all-out war on the health care of the American people."
"On the very first day that the Democratic Majority held the gavel, the House of Representatives voted to intervene against Republicans' monstrous health care lawsuit to defend people with pre-existing conditions and the health care of all Americans," Pelosi said in a statement. "While the Trump Administration broadens its monstrous ambitions from destroying protections for pre-existing conditions to tearing down every last benefit and protection the Affordable Care Act provides, Democrats are fiercely defending the law of the land and protecting all Americans' health care."
Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat, became the first 2020 candidate to weigh in on the filing with her criticism Monday night. During Attorney General William Barr's confirmation hearing in January, Harris asked him whether he was open to reconsidering the department's position. He replied: "Yes."
"Trump and his administration are trying to take health care away from tens of millions of Americans — again," Harris wrote in a tweet. "We must fight back again with everything we've got. And in 2020, we need to elect a president who will make health care a right."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25/politics/trump-administration-aca/index.html
