Weren’t we told this line before? Oh that’s right, so many were gonna lose their jobs because their employers wouldn’t be able to afford Obamacare yet the unemployment numbers have dropped (as many gained employment) since it became law. And now we’re hearing how many in the healthcare field are gonna lose their jobs (to go along with the 20+ million to lose their health insurance) if Trumpcare becomes law. – PB/TK
Hundreds of thousands of workers could lose their jobs if Senate health bill passes – By Alexia Fernandez Campbell / July 5 2017
From their offices in a crumbling former nursing school, Aimee Dinschel and Michelle Pihlaja-Olson were preparing to interview 25 applicants for public health jobs. It should have been a moment of optimism for their hospital system, which only recently began to turn a profit after more than a century of bleeding money, and which was expanding its services to the poorest residents of Cook County. Instead, the women were worried.
The health care bill moving through the Senate, and particularly its rollback of Medicaid, would threaten millions of dollars of funding for the county hospital system here. It could end mental health and behavioral services for low-income patients. And it has cast a pall of uncertainty over hospital staff: Dinschel and Pihlaja-Olson could not be sure that the jobs they were hiring for would still exist in a few years.
They weren’t sure their own positions would exist, either.
“What if we don’t have jobs in a year?” said Dinschel, a mother of two who is the main income earner in her family. It’s a question she’s considered several times since the election. “It’s hard to find a job, and this is a good position.”
Dinschel and Pihlaja-Olson, who manage health care for Medicaid enrollees, are among 300 workers and contractors for the Cook County health system whose jobs rely on the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. The morning we spoke, Republican senators had unveiled the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which would cut federal funding to cover Medicaid expansion for low-income Americans who qualified for the program for the first time under Obamacare.
Continue to vox.com article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/5/15873438/senate-health-bill-job-losses
