How quickly will they raise money, build email lists and social media sites, start seriously lobbying Congress?
Speed matters, 'cause very few Americans pay any attention to politics during December. And the Republicans just might do a quick repeal bill on January 3.
Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. America (and All the Ships at Sea): If youāre reading this, why donāt you call your senators and congress[wo]man immediately? And follow up with an email? And a genuine letter on paper?
Maybe we can salvage something if we all raise enough hell immediately. Otherwise, weāll all lose ā people with Medicare and workplace coverage will also be impacted indirectly if the ACA goes down.
MoSt of theSe grouPs haVe beeN idEntified as RadiCal terrorisT organizaTions by aleX joneS anD Michael Flynn.
Well they managed to form a working coalition and get a press release out pretty quickly. It should be the Dem party driving the messaging; hopefully we will continue to hear those voices too. Loud and clear.
The excerpt from the press release is truncated? The list is not complete.
Liberals need to display some anger. We were stabbed in the back on election day after caring for decades about people who apparently care little for themselves or for their children. Miners are a good example.
Instead we are hated for various āsinsā: believing in equal rights, clean air, basic human decency.
Beyond experiencing misplaced anger, we now have to confront the obscenity of Medicare being taken away from grandparents. It only means suffering and dying and bankruptcy. Thanks a lot.
Well, fool me once, okay, but no more. Donāt look to me for empathy anymore. Trump voters are not my friends or neighbors or fellow Americans. They mean nothing to me.
āOutside organizations?ā You mean citizensā groups?
I hate to see folks lose their health insurance/care but I really think itās going to take something like that for some folks to wake up to the reality of how bad Trump is and get good folks voted in next election.
How long before Trump uses the executive branch to destroy these groups/people? Spring? Maybe even sooner?
GOP are already sending out their minions in an attempt to say: Despite what you read, the GOP are not going to repeal ACA or modify Medicare, etc. It was interesting, because the used a mix of TPM reported information and a mismash of 2016 electoral sitesā¦it was really weird, but that is what they are using so far. Do they just want to ignore it before 1/20?
Or theyāll just keel over due to their healthcare being taken away. Either way I canāt feel much sympathy for them as they basically made the noose that hanged them
Iām guessing heās using it as much as he can right now.
Hereās hoping that everyone on the ACA who voted for Trump and all those non-voting parasites during this last election lose their ACA coverage en toto; and, I hope they enjoy āeating cakeā while the rich get their resulting tax cut. Many of these same Trump voters and non-voting parasites will also be affected by proposed SSN and Medicare legislation that the Republicans want to pass.
Sadly, but to the powers that be (read that as: President/Senate/Representatives), all of the āLiberalā fighting and teeth gnashing for the ACA/Medicare/Medicaid does not amount to a warm bucket of spit.
The ONLY groups that will influence the GOP on this healthcare matter are:
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the many millions of (primarily) Trump voter who will be kicked to the curb with no (or very expensive) health insurance, and
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health insurers who have no fear of Trumpās pettiness and bluster. The can and will ignore his ābully pulpitā if it is their best interest.
I see the whole Trump experience and persuading his supporters to be like dealing with an alcoholic. They need to hit the very deepest darkest pit before they can begin to change. Sad.
Reality impinges when your your diabetic wife is going to the E/R to beg for medication and your balls are throbbing and have cysts.
Completely agree. I donāt want to see people suffer, but the people who use the ACA, depend on medicare and SS to keep a roof over their head and feed themselves, all the while refusing to take advantage of other Democratic policies like education assistance and job training are going to need to feel the pain of GOP policies before they change their minds, IF their minds can be changed.
Well as I said above RE feeling GOP pain: āReality impinges when your your diabetic wife is going to the E/R to beg for medication and your balls are throbbing and have cysts.ā
Republican Congressional Majorities in the House and Senate=THE REAL DEATH PANELS
There are some of us who use the ACA who are upper income flaming liberals. I renewed my coverage just today. I know several people in that category, who are in their early 60s and who would not be able to get medical insurance if not for the ACA. Iām just hoping it hangs in there until Iām old enough to get Medicare.
Good, glad to see this. We need to see a lot more of things like this going on, and quickly. And some democratic donors are gonna have to step up to ensure the stop-ACA repeal side has the resources needed to inform the nation of the dire, very real human consequences of repealing the ACA. We need to start seeing ads of cancer patients who will loose coverage and thus their ability to continue treatment or maintain routine screenings to check for any recurrenceās, of the working mom with a pre-existing condition and unable to afford coverage for herself and her children without the laws subsidies, a child born with a costly heart condition that could require dozens of surgeries before that child becomes an adult who would suffer without the laws ban on
both yearly and lifetime benefit caps, etcā¦ this list can go on and on and on. The public needs to start seeing this like yesterday. The GOP has to start feeling political pressure, and quickly.
I donāt wish it on you either but sadly I just think the dicks now in charge are going to allow it to happen. I just donāt understand them.