Americans’ healthcare concerns

Soaring costs, loss of benefits top Americans' healthcare worries: Reuters/Ipsos poll https://t.co/pKTMb4LImd pic.twitter.com/BaacftbfBA

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 15, 2018

More than 60% of American children were enrolled in CHIP or Medicaid for some part of 2017

More than 60 percent of American children were enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP for some part of 2017. https://t.co/7LKaABvlu8

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 13, 2018

The House voted to cut CHIP funding and I would not be surprised to see them cut Medicaid. They’re more concerned about tax cuts for rich people. Sad!

The Trump administration wants to eliminate mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions

The most popular feature of Obamacare may be requiring insurance companies to offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. I’m sure we all have pre-existing conditions or a family member or friend who does. Now the Trump administration wants to eliminate that requirement. They claim it’s unconstitutional.

Here’s a poll that shows how popular it is, even among Republicans:

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Do you think health insurance companies should be required to provide insurance to people with pre-existing conditions?
more: https://t.co/JkINBm2dAB pic.twitter.com/lvqAYpC9Ab

— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) June 10, 2018

some tweets:

For years Republicans said they would protect people with pre-existing conditions. They lied.

Instead, the Trump admin is saying it's unconstitutional to stop insurance companies from denying coverage for people who are sick or who have ever been sick. https://t.co/VBwY6lIhEw

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 8, 2018

Insurer lobby group weighs in on Obamacare individual mandate case https://t.co/dEoHn0AB98 pic.twitter.com/IC2twzsthB

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 9, 2018

It is completely false that repeal and replace was done except for one vote. The House and Senate were nowhere near agreement on a replacement; the Senate’s so-called skinny repeal failed by just one vote. But they would have had to still go to conference. https://t.co/NBWyEDoSVZ

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 4, 2018

This is not a slippery slope. It is a ski jump into lawlessness. My latest https://t.co/vqAeBhd1dR

— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) June 8, 2018

Trump says of the individual mandate in health care: “Who would think of that? Who would think of it?” Uh, the Heritage Foundation, among others on the right.

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) May 30, 2018

Four millions fewer people have health insurance thanks to Republicans

The number of Americans without health insurance is rising again, up by 4 million since this time in 2016. That's a consequence of the GOP assault on the ACA: https://t.co/3iTKLBSd5v

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 1, 2018

Sad!

The Trump administration stresses abstinence as birth control

From this article: “The Trump administration has published its new plan for fighting teen pregnancy and its message to teens is clear: don’t have sex.

Anyone who wants federal government money to fight teen pregnancy must choose from two approaches that includes preventing teens from having sex, or persuading them to stop.”

There is no evidence this approach works.

Abstinence-only programs do not work.

How many more times is the Trump Administration going to value their ideology over scientifically proven methods that actually help our teens? https://t.co/s2pf6BtCF4

— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) April 25, 2018

Sad!

US water crisis

Flint, Michigan isn’t the only place in America with water issues. This article describes the crisis resulting from the high cost of water. Sad!

The Trump administration ended a teen pregnancy prevention program

“The Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a federal program to prevent teen pregnancy last year was directed by political appointees over the objections of career experts in the Department of Health and Human Services…” according to this article.

The program had bipartisan congressional support and helped reduce the teen pregnancy rate to an all time low.

Just another bad decision by the Trump administration. Sad!