Has this been posted yet?
Paul Ryan: ‘We’re not going to give up on destroying the health care system’
Finally a moment of honesty from the republicans.
Yeah, but as long as that trillion-dollar tax cut is at the heart of the bill, it’s redistribution to the rich.
Seriously, do you think they’re going to take that out? As far as the GOP is concerned, the tax cut is the steak; everything else is the sizzle.
My Medicaid plan is paying for my spouse’s cancer treatment and multiple hospitalizations with zero co-pay or deductible for us (we still have to keep up with premiums). How would your Blue Cross plan do in comparison?
Are their downsides to the plan? Yes, there certainly can be.
The point is, though, that at least some Medicaid plans are as good or better than some Blue Cross plans.
Should I point out that this is from the state that Pence was governor over for the past four years? Hardly a bastion of bleeding-heart liberalism.
The right always wants to turn the country back to the Good Old Days ™ of Eisenhower and the fifties. Except for that 90% tax rate.
Japan is a big one. You have to kick in some of your own dough but it’s a universal health insurance system for most costs, and it’s not optional. Italy, Sweden, Spain and Norway are all single-payer.
Oh man, this is golden. The White House has walked back Trump’s “insurance for everybody” promise.
I swear, the walk-back of that promise is going to make Obama’s “keep your plan” fiasco look like child’s play.
Eh, nobody who wasn’t already drinking the Kool-Aid should be surprised by that. And the rest will find some delusional way to blame it on Obama.
This.
Really, the only parts of the “plan” that are important to Republicans are:
- Get massive tax breaks to the wealthy
- Figure out how to blame the resultant deaths on Obama.
Anything other than that is just window dressing, as far as they’re concerned.
Ryan is already talking changes to Trumpcare.
This actually surprises me. I thought Ryan was one of the authors of the bill. Is it possible he didn’t realize it was going to skyrocket premiums for older Americans? If he did realize that (and, really, how could he not?) did the guy who is supposed to be such a consummate politician not foresee that the AARP was going to be all over his ass for it?
Really – what the hell is going on here?
Ryan didn’t realize anybody would notice. He hoped that Trump’s tweets about the latest on Celebrity Apprentice, or what some Hollywood person was wearing would keep everyone focused on other things…
PSA: The House is planning to vote this Thursday on the AHCA. Contact your congressman and let him/her know where you stand. (http://www.house.gov/ > Find Your Representative (upper right) ).
Latest copy of the AHCA is here: https://housegop.leadpages.co/healthcare/#download-bill
I do write to my ‘Representative’ and I visit his office with specific questions. The only result is that he’s added me to his emailed newsletter. He’s a wealthy rancher who is afraid to hold town hall meetings. Must be Democracy in action.
Crane
Can someone explain something to me, please.
The far-right House members (“Freedom Caucus”) are threatening to vote “no” on Ryan/Trumpcare tomorrow because they say their constituents want them to REPEAL Obamacare and nothing short of that will do. <Said while stomping their feet and tossing their heads righteously.>
Ryan/Trumpcare eviscerates, emasculates and all but decapitates O’care, so what more SPECIFICALLY do these guys want to happen to it so they can claim with straight faces that they got it repealed?
From what I understand, the ACA is so big and complicated and web-like that it can’t simply be repealed in one swell foop, the way you might change the speed limit or raise/lower the legal age to buy alcohol.
So WTF do they want? What will satisfy them?
P.S. I don’t believe they give a rat’s ass about the law or health care one way or the other but only about satisfying their small-minded constituents.
P.P.S. I wonder if all of their constituents still feel this way about the ACA now that people are finding out the real potential downside.
They want to get rid of the laws that cannot be changed via reconciliation. The ACA did a lot, both in and out of the insurance market.
For example:
They want to get rid of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and other sub agencies created by the ACA.
They want to eliminate the rules about guaranteed issue and preexisting conditions and essential health benefits.
They want to eliminate the Medicare free preventive services.
They probably want to reinstate the doughnut hole for Part D.
They want to eliminate the refundable tax credits. At most, they want tax deductions (deductions are less powerful for low-income people).
They want to eliminate the expansion of Medicaid (they actually get very close to this, but not completely).
Those are just examples.
Thanks for that jsgoddess. I just read in the Washington Post:
What role (if any) does the Freedom Caucus believe the federal or any government should play in the well-being of the poor, disabled, and/or elderly in our country?
I think Republicans want to strip as much out of it as possible so that insurance companies can charge reasonable premiums while not providing any sort of service whatsoever in return. Gotta look out for those shareholder, ya know.
None.
Zero.
Zip.
Got it. :mad:
- Tax deductions for the people who send their party money.
- People who can afford it can pay for their own health care insurance
- No health care at all for “undesireables” (defined as those who do not send their party money)