“ObamaCare” will be replaced with “TrumpDoesn’tCare”.
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This morning trump says his “insurance for everybody” plan is nesrly done, the GOP is in the dark about it, and trump’s staff is frantically walking back his comments.
Not bad for a tuesday
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DonaldDon’tCare, in the argot of his supporters.
Much better!
“That is like a drop in the proverbial bucket,” Blumberg said. “They’re kidding themselves if they believe that this is enough federal funding to make care adequate and affordable for such a high need population.”
Uh, no. They’re just hoping to kid enough of their supporters.
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Though what’s funny is she relied on Social Security later in life. And that’s before getting into how she was strangely uncomfortable with the idea of evolution and she thought the Surgeon General’s warning was complete lie. Yeah, Rand was the epitome of the pseudo-intellectual: incredibly verbose, but dumb as a post.
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Why is money a problem? We have Rs in the WH and controlling Congress, so deficits don’t matter. Deficits are, in fact, a good thing, because they will force the Ds who will eventually pick up the pieces after the Trump disaster to cut spending. This is the standard R playbook.
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This is stupid. Details that hurt people matter, and even the moron Trump people will know when they screwed, or when a loved one gets the shaft.
Great comments!!
What drives me crazy about the discussion is that everyone on the talk shows acts as if the cost of universal healthcare gets added on top of everything we are already paying for healthcare instead of as an alternative to everything we are already paying for healthcare. A 10% tax!! By the time you add together my premiums, my taxes already being paid, my deductibles, my copays, my coinsurances and my prescription costs, the amount my wife and I are spending is way beyond 10%. FUCK INSURANCE - give me universal healthcare.
If you can guarantee me decent healthcare, great public education for my children and grandchildren and a decent income in retirement (and throughout life for the coming generations), you can take half of my income in taxes.
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People should into the high risk pool coverage and cost for their state if their state has a high risk pool. The last time I looked at what my state offered, it was about $1,000 per month per person for someone around 60 years old and a $5.000 deductible. Let’s say you are 62 years old and out of a job and have high blood pressure. No insurance company would take you before Obamacare so you would be screwed. The high risk pool, if available to you, would be your only alternative unless you were eligible for COBRA coverage and that might not be much cheaper than the high risk pool.
In the battle for Paul Ryan’s heart and mind and soul, Ayn Rand is winning, not Jesus Christ.
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Excellent. Yes, after being diagnosed with cancer, the last pressure you need is to find the most cost-effective treatment. That’s what health insurance is for. In fact, consumers of cancer treatments are almost certainly not able to make those judgements well, and should not be saddled with the need to make them.
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Eh, I think zombies got his mind, and the Grinch stole his heart. Jesus sure ain’t getting his soul.
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Basically the “high risk pools” gambit is NOT a strategy for providing affordable health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. It’s a strategy for pretending you’ve provided affordable health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
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A friend of mine is a cancer survivor, as I am. Before the ACA she was able to get catastrophic insurance with a deductible of several thousand dollars at the cost of $1200 per month. She knew she was spending her retirement (she’s a widow), but was afraid to go without insurance. She was part of the reason I worked so had to get Obama elected. I knew the system was broken. I was diagnosed with cancer the day Congress voted on the ACA. It was such a relief to know that I had some insurance security. Now, as my husband and I approach retirement we are wondering if we will have to work until we die.
As I look at the Republicans I am surrounded by it’s as if they actually think nothing bad could ever happen to them. They just don’t seem to get that life can change on a dime.
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I would not care if they just renamed the ACA trump care and added single payer, and fully funded it as intended and every state joined in the expansion… muriKKKans would not be dying in the streets and everyone would soon realize that the republiCONz were blocking it all along.
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“But the fact that a smart, free black man was the one to sign it into law…”
There, fixed that for you.
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This is what happens when you let Milgram do the experiment.
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When they are living on the taxpayer’s dime, they have no incentive to care about the life changing events of the helots.
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This is what happens when you let Milgram do the experiment.
[/quote]Harsh, Milgram wasn’t actually electrocuting the subjects, at least I don’t think so. The GOP will end up executing some of us with their policies.
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