This, as usual, is all kabuki (except hopefully for the members that vote for it and are pummeled). They know it will be killed in the Senate. In fact, they are COUNTING on it. They just need Trump off their backs - plain and simple. Here in VA (no Medicaid acceptance), there is news that Aetna (one of three still in it) is pulling out for 2018. So thanks, Don. No matter what happens, their actions are already affecting us.
@austin_dave - I agree with you. I think many could have had a long soul of the night last night and may just be regretting that promised âyes.â.
It is as if they long for the pre ACA days when 50% of personal bankruptcies were due to medical costs - most often by people who had health insurance.
In order to have more money for tax cuts for the wealthy - push more people into dire financial crisis.
Very good point, but i would only add that it is (unfortunately, and for all the wrong reasons) far more important that men know this fact than women. Men are the majority in congress and State legislatures. What men do not have to worry about, they wonât. To the GOP in congress, being born female is a pre-existing condition that men should not have to pay for.
This is a fight between those who want individual citizens/consumers to have access to affordable high quality healthcare and those who want to further enrich corporate health care insurers and providers by creating laws that eliminate competition and raise prices for anyone who actually consumes healthcare service. This law will serve to transfer wealth to those who own the corporate health care sector.
That keeps their buddies in the payday loan business going strong, separating the rich from the poor, and widening the gap. Thatâs what the GOP is all about.
So if a woman employee under her work plan doesnât have maternity benefits, how could she obtain maternity coverage? Would she have to decline the employer plan and enroll in the high risk pool? Would the high risk pool offer supplemental plans? Would an employer be obligated to offer supplemental coverage (at additional cost, no doubt)? Or is the poor lady just out of luck?
Say what you will about Johnson, he had many faults. Sometimes you need a person like that. If we had a 55 year old LBJ running the Democratic party today, we never wouldâve lost rural America or the working class who vote on social issues. He could personally be against something while effectively talking you into voting for it. He knew how to talk the language of the common man. If he had been running for president in 2016, he wouldâve somehow sold being pro choice to the majority because itâs the right thing to do. Even if he was against it in his heart, heâd could sell it to congress critters and the blue collar worker. The context of that quote told by Moyers is even better:
Lyndon Johnson said to a young staffer, Bill Moyers on the politics of resentment and divisiveness
We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. âIâll tell you whatâs at the bottom of it,â he said. âIf you can convince the lowest white man heâs better than the best colored man, he wonât notice youâre picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and heâll empty his pockets for you.
Including many of the GOPers themselves that will be voting on it. A shocking number have revealed they havenât read the bill, or the new amendments.
If something like this becomes law, all the talking heads on Fox News wonât be able to save the GOP once the law goes into effect. Inflicting cruelty so the rich can get richer.
Of course, the idiots didnât realize that their punches would not touch Obama at all. Their punches will land, instead, right in the most sensitive parts of their own anatomies. What a bunch losers, soon to be losers-in-agony from self-inflicted wounds.
I donât He responded pretty forcefully to the suggestion from the WH that they change their rulesâŚtelling them âNOâ and that the WH would be better off dealing with their own issues instead of trying to manage the Senate lane.
I doubt McConnell could even muster the votes for that, and more importantly, he doesnât want to. Its for crap like this that he wants it to stay in placeâŚso the Senate can be a block on the suicidal crap that the HFC tries to throw their way.
