Trumpcare Tracker: How the GOP Bill Will Harm the Disabled




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Summary: Jordan Weissmann talks with Harold Pollack, a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago, about the devastating effects the Republican health care bill will have on disabled Americans and other vulnerable citizens. In recent weeks Pollack has written about how <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/06/trumpcare_will_probably_kill_thousands_that_s_neither_uncivil_nor_alarmist.html">Trumpcare will probably kill thousands every year</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2017/06/the_senate_health_care_bill_is_terrifying_for_americans_with_disabilities.html">why Americans with disabilities should be terrified by the legislation</a>. (Jim Newell is on vacation.)