Top 15 Ways Ryan Republican Budget Harms Women And Their Families

[Crabtownboy]

Another Republican whose plan would harm women.

Repeals Protections and Benefits Millions of Women Enjoy Under ACA

Insurance companies would be allowed once again to charge women more than men for the same health coverage.
Insurance companies would be allowed once again to treat being a woman as a “pre-existing condition.”
Millions of women and their families would be stripped of the private Marketplace health plans and the expanded Medicaid coverage they have obtained under the Affordable Care Act.
More than 47 million women would again have to pay out-of-pocket for lifesaving preventive health care services, like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings.
Undermines Women’s Economic Security

The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for increasing the minimum wage, leaving the nearly two-thirds of our nation’s minimum wage workers who are women behind.
The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for a bill promoting equal pay for equal work for women, with women on average still earning only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.
The Ryan Republican budget cuts Food Stamps by $137 billion over the next 10 years, which would be devastating for millions of America’s women. Nearly 62 percent of adult Food Stamp recipients are women.
At least 200,000 women and children would be dropped from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), if the GOP’s 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.
Punishes Women Seniors and Cuts Health Benefits to Give Tax Breaks to Millionaires

Up to 4 million women seniors in the Rx drug ‘donut hole’ would immediately have to start paying more for their Rx drugs because the Ryan Republican budget re-opens the ‘donut hole.’ As a result, seniors in the ‘donut hole’ will be forced to pay an additional $18,000 on average for their Rx drugs over 10 years.
Women make up 55 percent of Medicare enrollees and would suffer the most when the Medicare guarantee is replaced with a voucher in 2024 – with premiums for traditional Medicare going up by 50 percent on average. Indeed, the Republican plan would drive traditional Medicare into a “death spiral.”
The Ryan Republican budget slashes Medicaid by $732 billion over 10 years or by nearly 25 percent in 2024 – with the largest impact on women. Nearly 70 percent of Medicaid’s adult beneficiaries are women; in addition, Medicaid is the primary payer for 64 percent of nursing home residents, who are mostly women.
66 percent of individuals who depend on senior meals like Meals on Wheels are women. Senior meals would be cut by 15 percent in 2016 if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.
Threatens Our Nation’s Competitiveness for Generations to Come

Up to 5.6 million women students would find college less affordable due to $145 billion in cuts in Pell Grants under the Ryan Republican budget.
Up to 170,000 children would lose access to Head Start and up to 3.4 million disadvantaged children at 8,000 schools would lose vital Title I education funding, if the Ryan Republican Budget’s 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.
Parents of tens of thousands of children would be impacted by a 15 percent cut in help with child care expenses in 2016, if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.

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[thisnumbersdisconnected]

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[InTheLight]

This article is misleading (surprise!). The Ryan budget would not do these things to "Women and their families" directly, but the repeal of ObamaCare would affect those things in the first section. Now, if that was all that was accomplished, repealing ObamaCare, yes, these sort of things would happen. But the Republicans have a replacement plan for ObamaCare that retains the best features, like the 'no denial of insurance based on pre-existing conditions' (among others) that would make this entire article moot.

 

[JohnDeereFan]

Insurance companies would be allowed once again to charge women more than men for the same health coverage.

I agree! Men should be charge for gynecological coverage, too!

Millions of women and their families would be stripped of the private Marketplace health plans and the expanded Medicaid coverage they have obtained under the Affordable Care Act.

And that's bad...why?

More than 47 million women would again have to pay out-of-pocket for lifesaving preventive health care services, like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings.

Under what plan?

Undermines Women’s Economic Security

How so?

The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for increasing the minimum wage, leaving the nearly two-thirds of our nation’s minimum wage workers who are women behind.

Of those women, how many of them are teenagers or young adults?

The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for a bill promoting equal pay for equal work for women, with women on average still earning only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

You realize that the reason women make less is two fold: First, because women tend to take less dangerous and less skilled jobs and, second, because women have babies, right?

The Ryan Republican budget cuts Food Stamps by $137 billion over the next 10 years, which would be devastating for millions of America’s women.

Good. The federal government has no authority and no responsibility to be involved in food stamp programs.

Nearly 62 percent of adult Food Stamp recipients are women.

How's that feminism workin' out for you?

At least 200,000 women and children would be dropped from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), if the GOP’s 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.

Great. The Constitution never gives the government the authority or responsibility to be involved in such programs.

Punishes Women Seniors

How does it "punish women seniors"?

and Cuts Health Benefits to Give Tax Breaks to Millionaires

I'd like to see your source for this because it's been my experience that, any time the Looney Left trots out the whole "tax breaks for millionaires" line, they're lying through their teeth and the tax breaks extend to those who are not millionaires.

I'd also be curious to know why you believe millionaires are less entitled to the money they've earned than anyone else.

Up to 4 million women seniors in the Rx drug ‘donut hole’ would immediately have to start paying more for their Rx drugs because the Ryan Republican budget re-opens the ‘donut hole.’ As a result, seniors in the ‘donut hole’ will be forced to pay an additional $18,000 on average for their Rx drugs over 10 years.

Source?

Women make up 55 percent of Medicare enrollees and would suffer the most when the Medicare guarantee is replaced with a voucher in 2024 – with premiums for traditional Medicare going up by 50 percent on average.

I see. So, your complaint is that they would have to pay more for free healthcare?

Indeed, the Republican plan would drive traditional Medicare into a “death spiral.”

Great. Let's replace it with a free market healthcare system that would drive down costs, increase availability, and encourage innovation.

66 percent of individuals who depend on senior meals like Meals on Wheels are women. Senior meals would be cut by 15 percent in 2016 if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.

I see. So, your complaint is that they would have to switch to another charity?

Threatens Our Nation’s Competitiveness for Generations to Come

How so?

Up to 5.6 million women students would find college less affordable due to $145 billion in cuts in Pell Grants under the Ryan Republican budget.

Er, you realize that one of the reasons college tuition is so high to begin with is because of endless government grants and loans, right?

Second, where is it written that they must go to college? And where is it written that we should pay for it.

Up to 170,000 children would lose access to Head Start and up to 3.4 million disadvantaged children at 8,000 schools would lose vital Title I education funding, if the Ryan Republican Budget’s 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.

Yeah, how dare the federal government pay less for something the Constitution says they have no business being involved in in the first place!

Parents of tens of thousands of children would be impacted by a 15 percent cut in help with child care expenses in 2016, if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.

Where in the Constitution does it say that the federal government should be paying for these things in the first place?

Your argument isn't with the Republicans, comrade. It's with the Constitution.

 

[Zaac]

Every now and then when I look at how much just ridiculous wealth is wrapped up in the church that we aren't using to help the poor, the widowed and the orphaned, I find myself not caring that the government is taking it from us to take care of somebody else.

If Ryan's plan takes all this stuff away, will the church step in to help those who are in need?

The Catholic Church is ridiculous. I would imagine if you took all the holdings of Protestant churches together, they would be just as ridiculous.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Imagining it's so sure helps you stay on that high horse, don't it ?

 

[Bro. Curtis]

The Gavel Dot Gov is Nancy Pelosi's site. I noticed they're not allowing comments on this piece of garbage. I expect this kind of dishonesty from her.

 

[Zaac]

Imagining it's so sure helps you stay on that high horse, don't it ?

My high horse stands just high enough not to smell the putrid vile that comes out of your mouth.:thumbs:

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I think it's more like your own keyboard. :thumbs: Back atcha. You can imagine I care what you think.

But I think "vile" is a descriptive word, and doesn't really work in that statement. (Not sure if it's an adverb or an adjective, and would suppose it can be used as either.)

You probably meant "bile'.

 

[Zaac]

I think it's more like your own keyboard. :thumbs: Back atcha. You can imagine I care what you think.

But I think "vile" is a descriptive word, and doesn't really work in that statement. (Not sure if it's an adverb or an adjective, and would suppose it can be used as either.)

You probably meant "bile'.

See, I knew that you knew what that rancidity was coming out of your mouth.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Nope. Just correcting you. Like I said, I don't care what you think of me, Zaac. If you think it's vile, or bile, so be it. I'm sure you don't care what a self-pious arse I think you are.

 

[Salty]

I think this discussion is harming the testimony of Baptist Board.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Since nobody seems for the most part interested in addressing the OP, I'm closing this thread.