Great news! Everyone gets a deck chair!
Lifeboat? What lifeboat?
And hereâs my snarky selfâŚproceed, RepublicansâŚwho thought up the great idea to reward the fewer millionaires and billionaires and stab in the eye your much larger pool of voters who wanted improvements to their healthcareâlike lower premiums, lower deductibles and lower co-pays? Just amazing that there is not a coherent message from the GOP when they control all. Just. Amazing.
So they figure out how to make it even worse âŚ
Whoâd of thunk it ? ? â
Itâke a bunch of GOPer sitting around casting lots on how they can be more punitive or mean to poor, sick, old and disabled people, and their glee at succeeding is hardly contained. Who are these people? Certainly no one I know or love.
Maybe if these âpro-lifeâ people attended their town halls and stopped watching nothing but Fox News, they would realize That the reason itâs unpopular isnât because it doesnât throw enough people off. Also, gee itâs not bad enough someone loses their job, letâs make sure the get sick and die too. Iâm pretty sure thatâs not what Jesus would do. Smdh
ââŚtheir imperiled Obamacare repeal billâŚâ
A merciful suggestion for this terminally-ill legislation:
âHaving access to insurance doesnât mean having access to care. People have insurance right now and itâs not doing them any good.â
A true statement to which the humane answer would be to improve access to and lower the cost of health care. But âItâs an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.â so the GOP approach is to simply deny access to both health insurance and health care.
They might as well call this the Die Poor Americans amendment, because all it will do is remove care from the poorest Americans who canât find work. Honestly, I am constantly amazed how people who call themselves âpro-life Christiansâ can come up with this kind of stuff, or consider themselves moral human beings.
âItâs very crucial that this has some teeth to it, because what you donât want is for the money to be rationed out among a larger amount of people.â
Yes, because god forbid we actually try to make sure that everyone has âaccessâ to health care.
but decided to focus on âeasier and quickerâ Medicaid reforms first.
Left unspecified is precisely how gutting a program âreformsâ it.
Whistling past the grave yard. CBO will state that the numbers will look much worse.
If they are able to roll this lead balloon over, I pray that they will win on the provisions kicking in in 2018. Trump is supposedly coming around to that, showing the good judgement weâve of course come to expect by now.
Heâs desperate to get some legislation logged in. Canât appear to be the loser he actually is.
âAmerica
is not ready fordoes not want the health care reform I want, which is to get this city totally out of the health care business altogether,â he told reporters.
FIFY
America is not ready for the health care reform I want, which is to get this city totally out of the health care business altogether"
Headline: Barry Loudermilk wants to eliminate Medicare, Medicare, CHIP and VA healthcare. Arguably CDC, NIH etc. too.
Proof positive that the overarching philosophy of Repulicans boils down to four simple words: âYouâre on your own.â
These people turn my stomach. Heartless SOBs.
But weâll have to rearrange them ourselves, presumably.
I wonât believe this bill is dead until they start throwing dirt on its coffin.
I still think itâs going to the Senate. Once there Iâm not so sure, but I think if they get hold of it theyâll try and strip this kind of stuff, vote on an amended version, and then look to reconciliation for final passage.
Republicans in congress are monsters.
The coverage number will definitely get worse but hey, the amount spent will be less and thatâs all that counts, right? I mean, itâs not like there are real people involved or anything like that.
Even more importantly, the solution to the problem of out-of-pocket costs for insurance being too great for lower-income subscribers to be able to afford to actually go to the Doctor is emphatically not to eliminate minimum actuarial value standards and the system of tax credits that offsets out-of-pocket expenditures for those most in need, both of which AHCA does.