A very bad surprise. This is bitter irony. I spent the last 12 years working for an agency with a medical clinic whose target population was exactly these people.
“Once it was made into law, it couldn’t be changed”??? WTF? This level of ignorance that has now jumped up and bitten this woman in the ass is appalling. :smack: She and her husband will likely pay a huge price for their stupidity. What happens if you can’t get insurance that will pay for a liver transplant? Why, you die of liver disease. Quite simple.
But wait, there’s more!
Yeah, just let the states take care of all of that. North Caroliina? Kansas? Indiana? And of course, Texas, which just announced its intention to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid and to defund its regular medical services (mammograms, birth control), totally apart from abortions.
Seriously, my family purchases insurance off the marketplace. We could be, putting it unpolitely, fucked in the year ahead. We chose to launch a small business a couple years ago and I also work for a small non-profit (I’m the only employee) that doesn’t have a lot of money to pay both a salary and benefits. So having the ACA allowed us to do both of those things (start a business and have me work for a non-profit I care about). We may have to shutter our business and I may have to quit this job and look elsewhere if this shit happens.
Thanks Republicans. Anecdotally, this repeal would fuck a small business owner AND someone who works in community service.
Incidentally, my own Congressfucker, Bill Huizenga, just said this week that patients should be responsible for more of their medical costs, (one way he suggests: higher deductibles!) and they shouldn’t just whip out their insurance card whenever they need health care, rather they should consider the cost of each treatment before proceeding and factor in whether they can actually afford it. This guy’s a real shit brick.
Doesn’t surprise me that all those selfish, insular Republicans who thought repealing ACA would only apply to gays, liberals, gay liberals, and those smelly brown people, are now shocked!! I say, shocked!! that it would affect them as well. Republicans always think they live in some bubble world where the rules don’t apply to them.
But that’s why I’ve been saying all along, in other forums, that most likely, the newly dominant Republican Congress will probably not repeal ACA, for fear of a voter revolt. Oh sure, they’ll threaten and bluster and make promises to their campaign-funding corporate puppetmasters, but they won’t actually do it. I could be wrong, of course. But I hope I’m not wrong.
What I’ve been wondering: what happens if the GOP moves to repeal it, but only with enough votes that Senate Democrats can save it with a filibuster?
So the Republicans can say they voted as they said they would, and the Democrats can say they saved the ACA – and if there’s any bad economic news, at any point over the next four years, then Trump goes out to do some shouty call-and-response with cheering crowds about how everything is the fault of those obstructionist Dems who thwarted the will of the public and screwed the working class and, wow, they should all be locked up, huh? “Lock Them Up, Lock Them Up,” that’s right.
House Republicans, responding to criticism that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, said on Thursday that their goal in replacing President Obama’s health law was to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone actually has insurance.
What does that even mean? Coverage just magically appears out of the aether?
Republicans have an “ironclad commitment” to repeal the law, the aide said, as lawmakers moved to discredit predictions that many people would lose coverage.
“We can reassure the American public that the plan they are in right now, the Obamacare plans, will not end on Jan. 20,” the day Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated.
So, thery’re going to repeal it, but not repeal it. They make as much sense as the people quoted in the OP.
Remember Kelly-Anne Cuntface discussing the possibility of holding a special session in Congress on Inauguration day to repeal Obamacare? Not that they had some brilliant plan to replace it, because that would involve thinking and figuring and stuff, but rather to let the American people know that job one was destroying healthcare for millions. Like ISIS and Al-Queda, the republicans are bloody great at destroying things…and utterly useless at building anything.
Now, now. You can’t go blaming these people, they didn’t vote to have the ACA repealed, they just wanted to get rid of Obamacare, and have the government keep its hands off their Medicare. Nobody helped them when they were on welfare and food stamps, after all.
The “ironclad commitment” was made before they actually thought that they would have the ability to follow through with it. It’s much easier to be ironclad in your commitment when you don’t actually believe you’ll ever have to do it, and suffer the consequences.
Good. I have absolutely no fucking sympathy for these people. If this is what’s going to happen to good, honest people who didn’t vote to fuck everyone in the ass:
Then I have absolutely no fucking sympathy, and I honestly have to hope, for the sake of the people I am willing to give a shit about, that they either don’t live to see the next election or stop being such fucking morons. In the words of Bill Hicks: “He’s a moron, he’s dead—good, we lost a moron, fuckin’ celebrate. Wow, I just felt the world get lighter. We lost a moron!”
My prediction is that the ACA will remain essentially the same, with some non-substantive window dressing thrown on. There will be a bill to re-name it “Trumpcare”.
And the idiot Republican voters will cheer and cheer at this wonderful invention, that is exactly the same as “Obamacare”. Because they are gullible fools.