Name Changer
Republicans named Obamacare and now they can’t wait to kill it because IT SAYS OBAMA, y’all.
The latest plan will come close to dropping half the people under current employer-based healthcare, says the Wall Street Journal.
They can drop maternity care. They can put limits on exactly how much healthcare you can get. They can drop drug abuse programs in the midst of an opioid crisis. They are gonna mess with you.
The changes to employer-based plans would affect anyone who is not insured by Medicare or through small-business plans, since the GOP bill includes cuts to Medicaid and changes to the individual market, the newspaper reported.
That’s about half of all Americans.
So these are the death panels Republicans warned you about. Hey, it was nice of them to give us a heads up.
So I called my CongressCritter, Roger Williams both at his local Austin office and at his office in D.C. And consistent with his refusal to meet with his consituents except under very restrictive conditions, his office in DC won’t pick up the phone. And calls to the Austin office are routed to a voice mail box that is full.
Cowards, the lot of them.
1I want the democrats in congress to insist that whatever the republicans do, there will not be any exemptions for congresspeople, their families and staff; their access to insurance should be just like the general public. So they also need to get rid of their government-based plans.
2glf: The Congressional Exemption is STILL IN the bill they are voting on today. I can see the campaign ads against them: Trumpcare for YOU, Obamacare for ME!
3So… the Prez and the House Republicans got in trouble for promising things they proved they cannot provide, much less understand, cause it’s not easy.
4So… fool me once… or twice… so they are not as dumb as they look, so… they figger it out and decide not to deal with it at all: They will send all the sticky provisions to the States to use their wise discretion and get insurance to people who are good and not to those who are not good.
Red State politicians are licking their chops; the insurance industry is counting its windfall; and little Danny Patrick is all swoll up with his new power to designate medical insurance recipients, along with his other offices of being Religion Czar and Grand Poobah of Privatized Education.
If this passes, the GOP will have committed their own political suicide. They will OWN the consequences of what they have done since they were the majority. We can hope that the great numbers of people who lose their insurance, their Medicaid benefits or can no longer afford it, will remember the names these smug, heartless, greedy s.o.b.s. when they vote in 2018.
5And this joke still has to go through the Senate. That body is already telegraphing that there is very little love for it there already. This is nothing more than more of the same from decades ago. The sick piling up in emergency rooms that can’t handle the crush and terrible consequences resulting. Critically ill little children who won’t get treatment for any damn thing because the treatment is “experimental”. Baloney! And no, the House won’t go up against the insurance industry and whip them into shape such as allowing people to cross state lines to shop for insurance. Those congress critters depend on big checks from the insurance industry to finance campaigns. A pox on the jerks who voted for this!
6This vote today did not include anything for health or care.
7To add to all of that: anyone who voted for this bill to eliminate maternity coverage or make it state-optional had better not whine in front of me about how they want to end abortion because they love the unborn. They just proved they don’t give a rat’s behind about the unborn. Or the born.
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