Sen. Orrin “They Can Kiss My Raggedy Ass” Hatch (R-Utah) says repealing the Affordable Care Act is essential in order to keep too many people from going “on the dole.”
Making people bankrupt themselves to stay alive keeps them off the dole?
Woman attempts to drive GOP congressman off road over health-care vote.
Not really
Granted, she acted like a crazed person but the headline isn’t accurate.
Miss USA says health care is a ‘privilege,’ not a right.
Here’s hoping she did better in the swimsuit competition.
She already won. So she did pretty well in all competitions. Including the life competition. As in having a degree in radiochemistry, being a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and working for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
I was a very naughty fetus, then. Diagnosed as asthmatic before I was a year old. My mom didn’t even smoke or drink when she was pregnant with me, and this was in 1969.
Well then. I guess ignorance knows no bounds.
It’s your fault because you masturbated in the womb, which displeased God. NO INSURANCE FOR YOU, SINNER!
Trump team to dismantle small-business part of Obamacare marketplaces
She works with Radiochemistry and believes health care is a ‘privilege’?
:smack:
Intelligence and morality are two different things. Fancy that.
No, but the dead don’t cash any welfare checks.
Updates, such as they are:
The bill the House passed should be getting a CBO score next week. We were hearing Monday, but now are hearing Wednesday. The major hope for the opponents of AHCA is that the score will be as bad as or worse than the original score, which was really bad. There is the tiniest glimmer of more hope that it will not reduce the deficit, in which case they will have to change it in order to send it to the Senate.
The Senate keeps saying things like they are starting over or are not going off the House bill, but they are going off the House bill. Some conversations about whether to delay the phase-out of the Medicaid expansion. We’re even more concerned with the per-capita cap, which would likely be a death sentence for Medicaid’s financing of Home- and Community-Based Services, the main types of long-term services and supports that keep people in their homes and communities instead of being in nursing facilities. This is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. We don’t want to return to the era of warehousing people. And money not spent in HCBS will be money spent in acute services.
The GOP in the Senate finds the PCC hunky dory. Toomey and Lee want to cut Medicaid even more than the 800+ billion in the House bill. We’re talking destruction of the program here. Millions of people need this care.
Seema Verma apparently thinks it’s okay to extort or bribe insurers into supporting AHCA, so it’s great to know that the corruption doesn’t stop at the top (and who really thought it did?)
Senate talking about keeping the individual mandate, which makes me laugh, and delaying the repeal of various taxes.
It’s a shitshow, no doubt about it.
Lost in the flurry of bad news for the Trump’s yesterday, was this nugget, that Trump would like to end the subsidies, and his administration is trying to talk him out of it. Considering that their previous intervention on behalf of the president to get him to stop using twitter hasn’t seemed to work very well, not sure what effect anyone has on him.
Only if it’s something he wants to do anyway… until he (perhaps inevitably) changes his mind and decides not to.
The entire insurance industry is apparently freaking out too. That might have more of an effect, as they go directly to Congress as well.
Meet the new CBO score, same (really close) to the old score:
Okay…carried to a logical conclusion, the most affordable policy would be one that covers absolutely nothing! Universal coverage that everyone can afford. I think I’ve found the answer!
If the Republicans are going the repeal and replace route a recent pollmakes it very clear that the AHCA bill currently passed by the house isn’t going to be it, unless law makers are suicidal.
Only 8% want it passed unchanged.
Overall 55% have unfavorable views of AHCA as compared to only 31% that have favorable views. Compare this with Obama care whose unfavorable rating never exceeded 53% and approval never fell below 33% and these were not reached at the same time. The worst net negative was for Obamacare was about 16 points as compared to the current 24 points for AHCA.
Among those who feel strongly only 12% have strongly favorable views as compared to 40% who have strongly negative views.