Discussion: Spicer: Trump Wants 'Heart' In Secret Health Bill, Won't Say What That Means

Yeah, exactly what I was going to say. Based on the “improvements” we’re hearing about, he evidently wants Aztec ritual sacrifice of the poor. Or at least they want to empower poor people to choose to be spread-eagle on a stone alter and have their beating hearts cut from their chest with an obsidian knife and flung, still beating, into the flames before their dying eyes in lieu of dying of an untreated condition. Because freedom.

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With the thoughts that you’re thinkin’, you could be another Lincoln!

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If only.

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A heart. They want an actual heart, preferably ripped, still beating, from the chest of a poor person. Then Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will eat it.

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They are, you know. I have a good friend who is an able-bodied 52 year old and she relies completely on Medicaid. She’s completely healthy, aside from the early-onset Alzheimer’s disease that she’s had since the age of 45 that leaves her unable to recognize anyone or tell us her own name.

But a physically able 52 year old ought to have a job, amirite?

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I’m so sorry. :frowning:

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I honestly don’t know how much more of their obscene hypocrisy I’ll be able to process.

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Thanks. This one’s been rough. You expect this from your 80 year old relatives, but not your middle-aged friends.

So, I have a few questions for the room. What are the odds that the House will go into conference to negotiate with the Senate and come out happy? Then, if both chambers do send a “heartless” bill to rump, what are the odds he doesn’t sign it, thereby winning the “hearts” of those bloody red states that will be crushed by the law?

Well --perhaps except for the Republican grandmothers and grandfathers in Florida on Medicaid who voted for Trump, but then I might applaud.

My 85 year old father in law, who has been riding the Medicaid Gravy train to the tune of two open-heart surgeries, and currently esophageal cancer treatment, voted Trump because he hates government interference, and Obama was a crook. I have really mixed feelings about reducing his Medicaid.

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[quote=“dannydorko, post:22, topic:57856, full:true”]
With the thoughts that you’re thinkin’, you could be another Lincoln!
[/quote]> If you only had a brain

Medicaid and Medicare are not the same thing. Medicare is a third-rail… Medicaid is a juicy target in GOPers mind’s because it is rife with “lazy moochers”…“scam artists”… yadda yadda yadda.

For them it is “welfare”.

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St. Sean’s true offering:

Blessed be the rich and white.

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“Heart” means sending every goddam dime that isn’t nailed down to the 1% “Heart” means making health care utterly unaffordable for everyone outside that 1%. “Heart” is trump’s version of “compassionate conservatism”.
Or maybe “Heart” means everybody will get a single payer health care system like every other industrialized country has. Good ol socialized medicine that everyone can afford…I know, I know…

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