Don’t you mean that RepubliKKKlans “KKKare” about you? 
It’s like handing someone a blank check – it doesn’t mean that you have money, it means you have a check.
Deal. I’ll take the blank check. Spicey, you can have the AHCA.
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Thank you, Ms. Sneed, for another thorough and intelligent article bringing together a lot of information and perspective. I appreciate your hard work.
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So essentially everywhere that a complaint about the ACA is valid, the “replacement” is intended to make it worse?
I’m a little disappoint in the CBO for not headlining the distributional changes in their analysis. Just looking at average premiums, for example, is pretty meaningless if the groups paying those premiums aren’t comparable.
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Spot on. In the end, predictably, it’s about tax cuts for the already obscenely rich, a little chump change thrown in for the willfully ignorant, and the stripping of decent healthcare for millions. Classic GOP.
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Thanks, Tierney, sending this article to some acquaintances who would be hard hit if ACA is repealed.
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Great article. Another part of the “freedom” con is that people who refuse to buy affordable health insurance are shifting the cost of their health care to the rest of us. If they get cancer or suffer an accident, the hospital is still forced by law to treat them and then passes the cost onto other customers and/or taxpayers.
For fairness and cost-efficiency, everyone needs to pay into the system. By repealing the individual mandate, Republicans are endorsing freeloading on the system. So much for personal responsibility.
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US citizens can lower the demand for health care services which will, by economic “law”, lower insurance premiums and the cost of health services. A primary cause of rising costs for health care services (and insurance premiums) is that most Americans choose to ignore their health and they expect the world of science and medicine to come up with cure-alls for what ails us. America is one of the fattest countries in the world. Our food choices are major contributors to heart disease, diabetes, stroke, obesity and fatty liver. The demand for health care is directly connected to the rising costs. Citizens have far more control over their health than they care to admit; because admitting we are in control means we have the duty to do something about it. Of course, there will always be a need for health care and we all get sick sometime. But, elective illnesses (eating poorly, drinking too much, smoking, high sugar diets, sedentary life style) add huge cost to our national health care system; and those choices are up to us.
Great films on health and food: FED UP, THAT SUGAR FILM, FORKS OVER KNIVES, FOOD INC.
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Stuck on stupid. This reminds me of the messaging sent to the GOP during the Clinton impeachment process…LET IT GO! The folks back home tried to tell them. They ignored, and were handed their walking papers. Screwing over people and expecting them to like it is bad news…2018 is coming faster than they think.
Every day, stories appear all over the place about poor white Trump supporters, elderly, etc. who are having their wake up calls. Keep it up. I can’t wait for Karma to start kicking ass!
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Alan Grayson was right - If you get sick, Republicans want you to die quickly.
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I’ve not seen much push back against the “Obamacare is collapsing” whopper and that’s probably why it’s working so well. It’s also way to late to fix the GOP’s take on Obamacare. It’s becoming the prevalent one and in time ACA is going to go down. They have the votes to do it.
So let it happen. The result will be chaos. Town halls are testy right now. They’ll become violent after repeal. There’s no way a sleaze like Price or a con artist like Ryan can talk up what’s to come. Folk’s are going to know. It’s going to hurt and they voted for it.
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“The Eight Biggest Cons In The GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Pitch.”
Only 8? Seems low.
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#9 - That they’re actually trying to improve access to and the quality of insurance and medical care.
How that one failed to make the list, I dunno. That lie is the very foundation upon which all the rest was built…and all the rest proves it.
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Do YOU really think that the people or lobbyist who write their bills CARE about facts. They only know what they want, they only care about their bottom line and whatever profits that they can muster-up after a bill is passed. The lobby ist puppets are clueless and EVIL.
Clueless in DC.
LIARS do not care about facts.
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It isn’t about ‘FREEDOM or LIBERTY’ that much I can tell you for sure.
If you lose coverage to gain freedom, exactly how free are you if you can’t afford what you already had?
There is no burden of having good health care coverage and not having it isn’t liberty.
We are a modernized society and within that society, we have obligations, to each other and the society as a whole.
There is no profit obligation, only all pitching in for the good of all.
Conflating profit and healthcare is similar to conflating church and state. The two should never mix.
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Trump is tired of dealing with health care and thinks he will move on if the bill is signed. He’s too stupid to know the stories of how people are screwed will not go away.
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Remember folks–healthcare for everybody that’s better and cheaper. That’s what they promised. That’s the standard they must be held to.
‘They’ is a good word at this point, by the way. ‘Trump GOP’ too finicky, and tacitly invokes the Dems, who have nothing to do with this shit show. ‘They.’ The powers that be. Those in sole control. The ones solely responsible.
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Rich Lowry, of the conservative National Review made this comment on the podcast Left Right and Center, last week. Edited for clarity:
“I’m going to talk a little bit about about health care freedom.”
“This is been a rubric that some conservative critics of the repeal and replace bill have been making, and what it effectively means is, we’re going to subsidize the poor through Medicaid, we’re going to subsidized the elderly through Medicare, we’re going to subsidize employment plans through the tax system, and the only people who will experience this healthcare freedom under this view, are the working poor who make too much to be in Medicaid but not enough to afford their health care plan. They will get freedom. Congratulations and enjoy.”
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