While the proposal would technically keep the ban on insurers from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions, it would be rendered largely meaningless because gutting community ratings would allow insurers to price sick people out of their insurance.
Everyone knows people with cancer just aren't in the Kool Kids Klub.Once again, the Republicans want to screw red states voters.
If they’re serious about passing some sort of replacement for the ACA, they have to repeal it first. Only in the aftermath of repeal would Ds and moderate Rs be willing to support any replacement that insures more people than no replacement. Something is better than nothing, so even Ds will cave to any AHCA that insures any significant percentage more than no replacement, even if that percentage is a lot less than what the ACA insures.
But they can’t repeal without replace using the normal legislative process because even their moderate Rs won’t go with that.
They’re going to have to repeal by denying funding to the ACA in the appropriations bills. That way, moderate Rs don’t have to vote to repeal the ACA, they have the face-saving out that they’re just voting to keep the govt open. Once the ACA is dead functionally, because denied funding, these R moderates, and even Ds, will be clear on voting for whatever AHCA is on offer, because, however bad it is, it will be better than nothing.
The last version of the AHCA managed to actually insure FEWER people than a pure repeal would have done, That’s quite a feat, but they managed to do it.
Okay, one more time:
You have to use a wood stake, through the heart, stuff the mouth with garlic, and bury it at a crossroad.
All of these steps are important.
Yes, it’s a good thing the proles ushered in a new dawn, their revolution, to make better their lot in life via the efforts of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress. They did themselves proud.
You don’t have to look hard to see interviews with hard scrabble Trump loyalists in flyover country. To a person they confess fear about what Trump is doing, or will do, that might cause them some degree of harm or discomfort. But then they add a caveat that boiled down to its essence says “I’m OK with any personal suffering that befalls me, so long as the niggers and spics and gays and Muslims and uppity feminists and dirty fucking hippies get an even worse deal out of it.”
“This is really important work that have to get right.”
Idiot: 8 years wasnt quiet enough. We need another 3 or 4 generations without ObamaCare to see what we can do.
Yeah, they got nothing, they’re just trying to extend the bluff after they were made laughingstocks in front of the nation.
More great ideas from the lunatics’ caucus, let’s make sure cancer patients can’t afford individual coverage and let red states deny treatment for maternity care, mental illness and drug addiction. It will be extremely important for these clowns to hear from their constituents over the two-week spring recess beginning next week.
The only thing these guys can pass is gas.
I’m not dead yet…
Memorandum
To: Trump Voters
From: America
Date: April 4, 2017
Re: Repeal of The Affordable Care Act
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Ain’t It The Truth.
Sad, but true.
Please proceed, Republicans.
Seriously. Do it and consign yourselves to electoral oblivion at all levels starting in 2018 as your core supporters find themselves unable to access care and locked out of the insurance market.
Or don’t, and be seen as a clusterfuck of weak-ass cucks that can’t get shit done after talking big for seven years.
Either way is fine, really, in political terms. Although killing Obamacare will kill a bunch of people, and the healthcare industries will be your sworn enemies going forward to boot.
They are just doing this to build up the good will with congress that they will be needing to pass the budget bill – since we know that repeal/replace has been so easy and painless for them to get through.