If the sick, disabled, elderly and mentally ill would just die the nation wouldn’t be having this debate. Once the ACA is repealed Republicans can get to work assisting those groups in fulfilling their patriotic duty.
Now that Republicans are in charge the spigots of federal funding that were the devil under Obama will flow freely again. Sorry for blowing everything to smithereens - would a few hundred billion shut you up?
by the time the Republicans and the corporations are finished with all of their colluding and plotting—with the American people always with the short end of the stick—perhaps they’ll finally create such mass revulsion that a true populist revolution will occur.
Notice that the insurers want “greater freedom” in the design of the plans they will offer. We all know what that means: “If we can make you pay for it out of your own pocket, we will.” Most of the services and procedures they were required to cover under Obamacare will be GONE.
Hummmm… let me see …
Employer based health insurance is the only profitable risk pool, because basically everyone who’s too sick to work is excluded. The insurance industry should prove they can provide health care and make money without cherry picking their clients, before anyone cares what they think about any subject.
Just make sure we make lots of money while not fucking everything up so there’s no other option in several years but single payer. If a few nameless have to die that might be a good idea since they won’t be enough of a voice to be heard.
To give an example of how to do that just make the preexisting condition law very weak. Like if someone falls on hard times and has to let their insurance lapse make them wait a long time before they are allowed back into the system. By the time they can get back in they will probably be dead, but will likely just be logged as a nameless nobody
From an article in TruthOut:
"The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary defined fascism as: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.”
Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
I think we are there. This is just another step in making the U.S. a fascist nation completely guided by corporate profits and white nationalism.
Article source is http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14007-no-actually-this-is-what-a-fascist-looks-like
Yeah, but dammit, nature keeps providing more sick, disabled, elderly & mentally ill.
Congress needs to let the insurers ban nature.
(This is another episode of life in the unreality-based Trump world.)
Assisted suicide: “A great moral wrong”, condemned by the leaders of the Republican Party.
Slow motion assisted suicide: Millions lose their health insurance and their access to affordable medications for chronic illnesses. “Our thoughts and prayers are with you” say the leaders of the Republican Party.
Ice floes.
My insurance company is billed about $1.5 million every year. They pay less because of negotiated discounts with providers. Why so much? I have a chronic autoimmune disease and the monthly treatment, intravenous immunoglobulin, is very expensive. I’m one of the first people they’d choose to eliminate. If Congress keeps the rules about pre-existing conditions, then cutting loose people like me will come through unregulated premiums and deductibles beyond the reach of most Americans. D
Insurance companies: We want the right to kick people off their insurance if they need to use it.
Republicans: O.K.
No problem!
They can sit down with the money Dumpster and his kids, cut a few deals where the Dumpster and his off fall get a few $B, unreported of course, slap their name on something, conceal it in fake gold. Walla! He is good for the country and his supporters will say-toldya-just wait and our fraud guy works it all out. Miracle on Pennsylvania ave.!!!
Im going to wait for the triumvirate’s response
That’s what the supposedly healthy said before signup requirement —
nah
i was bout to go for that gif./meme again.
I still might, but I need to find a skeptical Tom Petty picture.
That’s a short-term solution, now that our official government policy will soon be that extinction of species mentioned in the Bible is not only legal, but is the mission god has called energy companies to accept to bring greater glory to his name.
Exciting times lay ahead. Once the waters rise high enough, it will be easy to figure out where Noah’s ark came to rest. We might even be able to spot the tracks of dinosaurs, walking in pairs, leading to the lip of a high cliff. You lose, Darwin Cultists!!!
The pharm industry reads of your plight, wipes a tear from its eye, and asks: “Why so little? This stuff keeps people alive. We should be able to get the full $1.5 million now and bump it up to $4 million over the next 2 years.”