Yeah, like this is a real question. Of course they will and they will be getting a hefty cut themselves.
And will blame Obama and the Democrats for making the mess they had to clean up.
People will die because the GOP sociopaths will play word games only.
Since they have always done this, why state the obvious? Where have you been for 8 years?
The bigger deal is the institutions and people that need to be paid by insurers: hospitals and clinics. To take care of the top of that food chain and let the entire ecosystem crumble is disaster. Hospitals and primary care clinics are on the edge financially even now. They employ a lot of people, and of course we all need them when we get sick. Maybe the plan is that GOP will subsidize the biggest hospital chains, which will scoop up all the bankrupt hospitals around the country for a song. I canât imagine what else they are thinking.
This was always going to happen, killing the ACA was a ready made battle cry for the GOP and now they can do what they promised for the last six years. They will do anything they want to make their case for replacement of the law even putting in place things they claimed were illegal or bad before under President Obama. All we can do is wait and see how it is handled and remind the voters about how individual GOP members of congress voted on the issue before.
Yes⌠remember the period when every Republican couldnât open his mouth without the word âuncertaintyâ being used - our executives and corporations couldnât function, they so needed âcertaintyâ - the âuncertaintyâ was going to kill them, etc.
So, the Republicans want to take away coverage for millions of citizens, and then pay insurance companies billions of dollars to not provide medical insurance?
That should go over well.
More Corporate Welfare for the pimp CEOâs folks!
So, Republicans are willing to pay insurance companies so they can take insurance away from millions of people, but they were not willing to provide supports to insurance companies to help get people insured. Got it, makes perfect sense. And itâs Obamaâs fault anyway for making repeal of the Affordable Care Act so damned expensive and harmful.
I think we were typing the obvious at the same time.
Let these liars repeal the ACA and Medicare. Then watch Ol Whorrin Orrin yelp when he canât buy a private replacement Medicare policy because of his âpreexisting conditionsâ!
Life expectancy drops in the USA
Well of course theyâll subsidize big companies. Thatâs what Republicans do. Itâs called survival of the richest.
The Unaffordable Care Act of 2017.
For a political party that has been promising to repeal and replace the ACA for almost all of its existence (SIX YEARS?), they do not seem to have spent any of that time âplanningâ the replacement. They have not even âplannedâ the repeal.
âIâm in lots of discussions on this,â he said, while noting that he chairs the appropriations subcommittee overseeing the funding for the HHS. âBut I think weâve got to get step 1 [of repeal] done before we begin to try to figure out step 2." - Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Only way to save the ACA is for Obama to request that it be repealed⌠the Repubs will surely block that !
âWe may have to agree to do somethings for a two- to three-year period that we normally wouldnât do in the long-term to make sure we give people the relief,â Alexander (R-TN) told TPM Wednesday, though he had previously said âletâs just seeâ when asked if that included any taxpayer funded programs.
Just long enough to get through the midterms.
Finally we see just who is on those infamous Death Panels that were touted before the ACA enactment⌠Itâs the Republicans!
One of the reasons FOIA doesnât apply to Congress is that members arenât keen on regulating themselves. The other reason is that publication of bills within a few days of introduction, plus committee hearings on bills that have traction, provides all the notice and process thatâs due, and gives all affected by the proposed bill the opportunity to address the issues before the bill becomes law. Bum-rushed bills deprive everyone the opportunity to participate in the committee hearing process and remove the protections against unexpected results that fully informed decision-making prevents. But the GOP leaders know that.