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Repealing Obamacare Would Cost Jobs In Every State

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The bipartisan research organization, Economic Policy Institute, just released their current report.

Economic Policy Institute, “The Republican-led effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes two large fiscal changes: a tax cut and a spending cut.1 Because the U.S. economy still has some productive slack, these significant fiscal changes will affect the pace of economic growth. Essentially, this productive slack is caused by households, businesses, and governments that are still spending less than what the economy could produce if all resources (including workers) were fully employed. This shortfall in spending (or aggregate demand) is hence the current binding constraint on the economy’s growth rate. In this environment, the sudden withdrawal of spending from the economy from ACA repeal would add job loss to the loss of health and financial security for tens of millions of Americans.”[1]

Download their full Press Release (PDF)

References:

  1. Economic Policy Institute, January 31, 2017, Josh Bivens – Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cost jobs in every state

Thousands Apply For Obama Care Before Potential Repeal by the Republicans

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Los Angeles Times, “But repealing the ACA is one thing, improving the U.S. healthcare system quite another. The current GOP strategy will almost certainly make millions of Americans worse off than they are today, and even worse off than they were before the ACA (better known as “Obamacare”) was passed. Yet Republicans are so hell-bent to repeal one of President Obama’s signal achievements that they’re ignoring the catastrophe they could create.” [3]

References:

  1. The New York Times, December 22, 2016, Robert Pear – Health Exchange Enrollment Jumps, Even as G.O.P. Pledges Repeal
  2. The Washington Post, December 22, 2016, Amy Goldstein – 6.4 million sign up for Affordable Care Act plans, more than in previous years
  3. The Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2016, Editorial Board – The risky GOP push to repeal Obamacare with no backup plan

Trump Will Hurt Rural America

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Almost half of the field labor on our farms are undocumented laborers according to the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Services.

Farm owners and their families are now insured because of Obamacare.

References:

  • Net Nebraska, March 30, 2015, Bryan Thompson – Some Farmers Warming Up To The Affordable Care Act
  • USDA – Hired farm workers include field crop workers, nursery workers, livestock workers, farm worker supervisors, and hired farm managers.
  • USDA – Immigration and the Rural Workforce