Friday, April 21, 2017

HOW TO MAKE 100 DAYS SUCCESSFUL

Take everybody's healthcare away. The new Zoombie Trumpcare is worse than the bill that got rejected. Remember the CBO scored the second to last bill. And found that 24 million would lose their health insurance. While the GOP claims they have no bill yet, they want a vote on Wednesday. The outlines for the bill would be far worse than the original. Bob Costa in the Washington Post estimates that the same 24 million would lose their healthcare and a similar amount would lose their healh insurance because they won't be able to afford it--premiums would skyrocket. 

The Trumpcare bill would get rid of the protections of the Affordable Care Act on pre-existing conditions. States would be allowed to opt out of what guranatees were afforded by the ACA and could adopt "garbage" insurance. 

As in the past,there has not been a single hearing about its affect on healthcare in this country. The sole reason to pass this bill is because Trump has nothing to show for his first 100 days. And Paul Ryan is desperate to give the wealthy a whopping tax break. 

But within a week,the Republicans have to fund the government and that now is off because Trump's Budget director is trying to cut a deal with Democrats that the Trump administration will pay the subsidies for health insurance if they vote for the Wall. Senate Republicans don't want to vote for the wall. 

Nefarious or incompetent--or both? The events of the past week have been depressing. Should we be confident that the GOP can't get their act together?

But remember those congress critters who want to take health insurance away from millions of people are those in our society who have the best healthcare for life paid for courtesy of the American tax payer.  I think the proper response is to kill all those who vote for the bill. For millions it is a life or death situation. Maybe make it the same for Congress. 

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