I vote for the second one to hurt the most. If their profits go down their campaign contributions go down. Isn’t sad that we have to do the math for Republicans?
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The Xtian Right are the true students of history. They saw what happened to the proponent of all those Beatitudes and will not make the same mistake again.
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The health care industry has been adding facilities like mad in my area for the last several years - so in addition to the loss of heath care jobs, construction jobs also hurt, not to mention all the places that these workers have been spending money.
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It means if you’re poor, you’re screwed because you can’t afford insurance. Period. Full stop.
Plus there’s the freezing of Medicaid in 2020 (so after election), and block granting it.
It’ll basically plain up f*ck up the US healthcare system. Then they’ll just say something to the effect of “see, we can’t insure the poor, or the rest of America for that matter, because it’s too hard and it costs too much”.
Republicans and those who vote for them are absolutely despicable.
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Good, brief first impressions on Matt Yglesias twitter feed.
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To Serve Man?
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So they replaced the individual mandate with a 30% increase in premiums if you ever laps in coverage (which will cost a LOT more over time than the ACA penalty and is a giveaway to wallstreet). BUT they are keeping the requirement to cover people with preexisting conditions. So they are in effect pushing more people off insurance, disincentivizing healthy people who had a lapse to get it again, and demanding the most sick be covered.
Yea, this is practically designed to break our healthcare system! And fine! Break it. Maybe after this colossal failure the Dems next time they get in power might finally grow a pair of balls, do something actually liberal and enact single payer like every other developed country. Hell I could even support a party again that did that.
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As someone on the Twitters mentioned: this plan is Windows Vista to Windows XP. Newer, but it does nothing except breaks what works.
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A conservative analyst for the Federalist just wrote that a minimum of ten million (and likely closer to 20 million) Americans would lose their employer-based healthcare under this new GOP plan - and that’s not counting the loss in coverage for those under the Medicaid expansion, etc. How can Republicans endorse this? It will be political suicide for them.
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Do you have that right? The Federalist? Those sonsofbitches are evil. If you lose them, there must be something really screwed up here.
I know you’re using that as hyperbole, since we are well past suicide for this party of Commie bastards.
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Not necessarily. Owing to the flaws --yes-- deep flaws in our constitution: electoral college, no explicit universal right to vote, unequal distribution of Senators and Reps giving yuuuge, disproportionate power to white, rural states, we could have a minority authoritarian government well into the future.
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The analysis was just posted on Politicalwire but I don’t know how to link it here. Yes, it was someone from the Federalist who is poking holes in the new GOP plan - which is why I was surprised to read it.
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@lastroth “Can we foresee states dumping poors onto other states?”
Free helicopter rides!
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I know you’re right, and I’m not really that optimistic about any kind of just outcomes politically. (Right after I typed that, I regretted displaying that kind of wishful thinking.)
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@clunkertruck Save that chicken! You may need it for your co-pay!
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With an actual (non)plan on the table, it’s going to be more difficult to refuse to do town hall meetings. Not impossible, mind you, but the optics are going to be much worse now. And they are already plenty bad.
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Who knows what the future might bring? But I fear that change for the better will be mediated by a major destructive crisis event that can be directly tied to the GOP’s incompetence and lack of effective governance.
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@the_mask Well, it would be a piss-poor dystopia if there weren’t people dying in the streets.
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