That whole article was both funny and horrifying.
BTW, Paul now wants the Senate to vote again on partial repeal, the ORRA bill which was a duplicate of the vetoed repeal in 2015.
So, he could be saying no in order to force this vote again, or he could just be a giant wiener.
It’s effectively over. With the huge Alaska subsidies, I can’t see Murkowsky voting no and the individual Senators will be able to blame their state legislators for the higher premiums and poorer coverage. They will just say that they gave the responsibility to the states who failed. I can only hope that if things tank as badly as I fear they will, more people will be on board with single payer. Meanwhile, I will probably have to close my practice and look for a salaried job with good health care benefits. For my patients at least, they will not be able to keep their doctor on this plan ( not that most of them will be able to afford health insurance anyway if the predictions of >2000k monthly for premiums for a single person over 50 are correct).
Did you complain about the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana Purchase when the ACA was passed?
Yeah! Take a lesson in integrity from Lindsey Graham. :smack:
From the Washington Post article on AK being able to keep Obamacare as long as everyone else loses it:
“To win a critical vote, Alaska (and Hawaii) might be spared many of the negative effects of the legislation. Because the Senate allocates its members by state and not population, that means two-thirds of 1 percent of the country could receive benefits that result in the other 99.33 percent of the country losing theirs.”
What a gigantic steaming load of shit! I thought Murkowski did the right thing before and now I know what she was really angling for. If she votes for the new bill, she’s one of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve seen.
Well the good news is that if they pass this piece of crap and pass the burden on to incompetent state governments, there is a good chance enough states health care systems will destabilize and collapse, leaving the only option a single payer takeover.
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at least good news for the people who manage to live long enough without health care to to see that happen.
So my family is going to lose our insurance and/or we’re going to lose our small business all because the people in Alaska are being allowed to keep Obamacare? They’re going to fuck over millions of people just to do away with a health bill that is liked by a majority of Americans and is largely doing what it’s supposed to do? This country is fucked up. Fucking ashamed to be a part of this shitshow.
Yes, it is extremely disgusting. It’s amazing that what might actually be the push to overthrow the ACA is one republican vote to save the ACA in her state.
The ACA is less than 10 years old. How did your family manage before that?
You don’t even know what this bill does, do you?
So only the well-off are allowed to start a business? Ever hear of the SBA and their loans?
I worked full time. Then in 2013, I lost my job, but luckily ACA kicked in the next January. Since then, we’ve been working to build our small business. I’ve also been working full time until I was able to quit my job this past spring and devote myself full time to our business (after we thought the repeal attempts were over). Since then, we’ve been paying less than $50 to insure our family of four. If the ACA goes away, we either abandon the work and money we’ve invested into this business, and I look for a full time job again (we grew enough this past year, where I can’t go back to running this business part-time), or we roll the dice on not being insured. Fuck these “pro-life” and “pro-business” fuckers.
Ask Alaska that same question. Why would a Republican from Alaska only vote to repeal that ACA if her state can KEEP the ACA?
I’m assuming Alaska managed before the ACA as well, yet they want to keep it. And she isn’t even a Democrat.
Too late to add to the bolded part: And we burned through most of our savings paying out of pocket for family insurance before the ACA kicked in in January 2014. Once it kicked in, things were largely golden (at least as far as healthcare for our family was concerned). This has been a Godsend for my family from day 1. And it allowed us to start a business. So again, fuck these fuckers.
Happy, you’re not affluent. That means that destroying your life is the republicans’ goal.
Tangentially related:
From WSJ/NBC poll:
“The public is divided over a single-payer health care system, with 47 percent favoring such an approach and 46 percent opposing it.
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But when supporters are told that all health care costs would be covered under a single-payer system — but that it would eliminate employer plans and that there would be only one government plan — the numbers move to 36 percent favor, 55 percent oppose.**”
What happens when opposers and neutrals are told that, out of curiosity?
I don’t think the article worded it correctly. I am pretty sure everyone was asked the second question, and the 36% for and 55% against was the result.
I most certainly do. What do you think it does?