Ok great, so we will be looking at $10 brain surgeries? And 50 cent prescriptions? I can’t wait.
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“So we’re choosing instead to look at what we think is more important to ordinary people: Can they afford to go to the doctor?"
WTF? What is that even supposed to mean? How in the Sweet Holy Baby Jesus of the Accounting Tricks can ordinary people afford to go to the doctor if they have no fucking health insurance, you colossal fuckwit? Are they supposed to trade their healthy organs for treatment of their bad ones? A kidney for some heart meds? Part of a spleen for liver cancer chemo?
What a bunch of vile, cruel-hearted, vicious, ignorant thugs.
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Unfortunately that psychobabble will probably fly. The goal of ACA repeal is repeal for repeals sake. It’s a Democratic piece of legislation aimed at bettering the lives of the less powerful. It’s not a setup for medicos or or insurance fat cats.
The GOP cannot do what ACA does. That can’t do it more efficiently. They can’t do it better. They are ideologically opposed to what ACA did in any form. They have themselves in a jam. They have to sell folks on a bag of dog shit but make them think its a happy meal. I’ll bet they pull it off.
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Will the low-information Trump voters get this???
Some will. Some will just shrug and tuck into whatever massive shit sandwich Breitbart or Fox and Friends tells them to eat because to admit that, at long last, the emperor has no clothes would be inconceivable.
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Sure. Attribute it to me I guess since I wrote it.
I did edit it just a second ago so use that. 
Can these people even hear themselves? Do they have any sense how they sound? That they sound like complete lunatics? It must be a disease spreading through DC from the top down. They’re going to make going to the doctor costs less by giving less people the insurance needed to pay for it. Sure, makes perfect sense.
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“Getting the change into the counting machine isn’t really the goal here…”
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You totally don’t want to get that all mixed in with your wheat…
Another plan based on the fact that most people don’t get huge, expensive health problems. Of course, the whole point of insurance is to protect you against the unlikely event of huge, expensive health problems. That said, because all the discussion of cost is focused on insurance and none on the cost of healthcare services, increasingly not-so-big medical problems are unaffordable.
The net effect of a plan to make it possible to afford a check-up and setting a simple fracture is that people will drop insurance and takes their chances on unpaid bills and Medicaid in the unlikely event of a medicsl catastrophe.
Could create a whole new dynamic. I don’t need brain surgery (not today anyway) but for $10, why not. You know, you already have a lawn mower and you’re at a yard sale and there’s this nice, almost knew, lawnmower. So you by it b/c it’s a deal. No … something wrong with that logic. But maybe I should first run it by that other WH blonde who’s been channeling Trump today.
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“It’s one of the conservatives’ – one of the Republicans’ complaints
about the Affordable Care Act from the very beginning: It was a great
way to get insurance and a lousy way to actually be able to go to the
doctor."
Okay, I think I finally see the sense of the GOP plan.
The tax credit will expand “access” to healthcare by allowing everyone to buy one of these:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uABFY5i5Uj4/hqdefault.jpg
There are some other terms that the GOP will be redefining, including:
Family plan
http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2012/07/Screen-Shot-2012-07-20-at-9.38.48-AM-585x423.png
Group insurance
http://i.imgur.com/9HDoT.jpg
Medicare
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Another case of guy who is as dumb as he looks.
Health care in the U.S. is more expensive than it should be (compared with every other advanced democracy as well as a few non-democratic and non-advanced countries) but there is no relationship between kicking people off insurance and bringing the cost of services down, and nothing in this bill is actually aimed at reducing the cost of health care services. Tom Price thinks Medicare pays doctors too little and opposes every initiative that is actually aimed at controlling costs. I have been doing this for a long time, and the only thing that happens when the uninsurance rate goes up holding everything else constant is that those who still have insurance face even higher costs on a per service basis, while those without insurance are completely at the mercy of a provider’s willingness to show charity.
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The end goal for republicans is to not pay anything out of their pocket for someone else’s insurance, medical care, or anything else for that matter.
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Office of Management and Budget Directory and '90’s TV series “Life Goes On” star Chris Burke impersonator, Mick Mulvaney…
This moron is Director of OMB? Holy shit. He needs to read this, but he will not… http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-republicans-american-health-care-act-in-a-few-words-as-i-can-manage/
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again ! “TrumpyCare” - a con for all by Don the Con and the Republicans - the more dead Americans, the more money for them… Death panels reign - of course for Republicans it is not about helping people, it is about money. That’s what Republican means - money money money!
Oh FFS I thought the goal was mainly tax breaks for the ultra-rich, why don’t they admit it? LOL
And Ryan is a social Darwinist, that’s all.
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Yes, and the assumption is always that the INSCOS are using “free-market” rules too, and not gaming the system for every advantage from the sales side, which they, of course, are.