Discussion: After Sinking Months Into Failed Repeal, Congress Poised To Let Health Programs Expire

And, this is what bastards the Republican lawmakers are - heartless, vile, self-serving, loathsome, vile, disgusting, vile, vile vile !!!

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“Anything…”

Anything but (for example), “Congress failed to re-authorize CHIP. Without the appropriation of funds, hospitals could face financial shortages in some areas, making the delivery of the appropriate level of health care to their often low income populations more problematic. This kind of financial malfeasance must not be allowed to continue!”

Please may the Democrats come up with something better than this.

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You forgot parasites.

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I work with grad students, some of whom are married. Over the years, some couples ended up with unintended pregnancies and elected to have that child even though their incomes were low. The one consolation I had (because, even though their personal lives aren’t my business, I worry about them) was that they would have good prenatal and healthcare for their young child BECAUSE OF CHIP. I just can’t believe that any civilized society would do away with this.

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The ideal Republican health care plan historical model:

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The other evening Trump met with a bunch of movement conservatives. He proceeded to mock cancer stricken McCain and McConnell who survived childhood polio. It’s obviously not shocking that Trump would not care about this issue.
Hatch used to pride himself on working with Senator Kennedy on this and other issues now he’s so afraid of rage from the base he can’t make the effort.

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Let’s prevent abortions but then we can let the kids die a slow death after. (GOTP Logic)

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Well, he’s from Utah, so I can see the resemblance.

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Sen. Charles Montgomery Burns (R - Utah) depends on the blood of small children to prolong his life, so he is naturally opposed to funding CHIP.

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It’s consistent: Just the party that forces you to have a baby and then abandons help forever.

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Republicans are bent on the destruction of civilization as we know it and a return to the dark ages (or at least the robber baron era). Look for the repeal of workplace safety laws, child labor laws, compulsory education laws, etc.

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Munts to the left of me. Munts to the right of me…

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Has predicting the future ever been easier!?

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Hatch, one of my all time least favorite Senators, seems awfully cavalier about this. Maybe people should treat him the same way should the opportunity arise. And every other republican.

You know, in an auto accident and bleeding profusely? Ahhh, we’ll get around to a tourniquet maybe later, or a bit after that.

I really don’t understand how a person can be such an empty shell of a human. Clearly you can be, but how, I just don’t know. That goes for all of them, not just the whining Hatch, but all of them. Susan Collins still a Republican, right? Ditto for her too.

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Who do you think fights in those wars of corporate aggression?

Fuck you, Orrin. I hope someone shoves your Magic Underwear all the way up your anal-retentive ass. At least, with your government-funded healthcare package, you can afford to visit a proctologist. And have your proctologist give you a brain scan, too, while you’re in the office.

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What? Tearfully concerned and caring Orrin didn’t offer his “thoughts and prayers”?

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Blaming it on Obstructionist Democrats, of course! If they had only gone along with gutting our entire health system in order to fund even more unnecessary tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires and transnational, tax-avoiding corporations they could have had their crumbs for the little children…

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“shortly thereafter”
I put that around the same time the scientific exploratory vessel Prometheus reaches the moon LV-223: December, 2093.

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There’s your problem. Republicans’ idea of a civilized society is like nothing seen since imperial Rome.

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