[Magdalen] Trumpcare question...

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well, I'm worried about my grandson, who is legally blind. He's had a vision teacher through the school system since he was 2, and he's entitled to receive services through our state agency for the blind and vision-impaired. I don't know if Medicaid helps with any of that, but with so many human services programs being cut, it doesn't bode well.
I'm just glad he recently finished his years of a medication that cost $2K a month...

> On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That doesn't make it any better. Millions of people will still be thrown
> off health care will the scaleback of Medicaid. I'm worried about my ASD
> son.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Mike. I think I get it, but I'm a bear of very little brain when
>> it comes to this stuff!
>> I didn't realize they'd raised taxes to finance the ACA--so this will
>> actually just put them back where they were before. No tax money is being
>> "freed up," in other words...
>> 
>>> On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Why is it a given that the money that will supposedly be saved by this
>>>> plan will automatically go to tax cuts for the wealthy?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Grace -
>>> 
>>> The "Obama" health care legislation included provisions to raise certain
>>> taxes, the sole purpose of which was to keep the net cost of the act
>> below
>>> a pre-advertised number.  It didn't hurt that the specific taxes were
>> aimed
>>> at upper income households but from a simple fiscal standpoint, it didn't
>>> matter.  Excise taxes on liquor would have served the same purpose.
>>> 
>>> It won't happen but the entire structure of Obamacare could be repealed
>> but
>>> the tax increases associated with it left in place.   They are not really
>>> connected.
>>> 
>>> Mike M
>>