And in gutting Medicaid they are also gutting the rest home industry. Better get ready to bring Mother home from Shady Glenn and put her in the guest room.
I don't recall hearing republicans or their voters complain about people (including themselves) using the emergency room as primary care. When people use the ER, and can't afford to pay the bill and thus are bankrupted and the cost gets passed to everyone else, as far as I know, republicans are fine with that. Yes?
Republicans seem to prefer paying extra as long as they get to feel superior to, and delight in the misery and misfortune of others in the process.
Oh, to have a science and factual basis to our governance... what an amazing thing that would be!
Voltaire, Ben Franklin, and so many others would be so proud, that over ~200 years since the Enlightenment, a middle-class man could dream of one day living under a government that relied on fact, research, and actual data to support their governing policies, instead of the irrational, partisan, and religious-based, emotionally-amplifying "moralistic" governance that they themselves experienced all the way back in the 1700s, when Science and Rationality were just cresting the horizon of a culture's cherished values...
@3 Just put a pillow over her head. She's why we're in this situation in the first place. Time to destroy the republican voting block and purge everyone over 70. Yes, we will lose some brilliant minds but they are the extreme minority in that demographic.
I heard some Trump voters in West Virginia interviewed on the BBC over the weekend. They weren't too fussed about losing coverage if the ACA is repealed, because once the mine is re-opened and they get their jobs back, they'll have company-provided health insurance.
@ 12, I listen to Canada's excellent CBC news everyday, and it's like receiving signals from an alternate reality run by sane, intelligent, decent people rather than bug-eyed, tongue-talking, lying, neo-fascist lunatics.
PBS News Hour analysis of the CBO report reported that even those who have great insurance through their employer may see rate increases, reduction in coverage, HSA plans in lieu of what they have now, and even no coverage.
@1 - Yes, it was about fucking with his legacy (now) and trying not to give him any wins (back when it passed and was implemented). But also, an even bigger reason that GOP members of Congress want to repeal it is because it includes the first tax on the 1% in decades. And for some, it's an excuse to attack Medicaid as well. They really want to repeal the tax but everything else is a pretext. I suspect that if they could get rid of the tax on the wealthiest and leave everything the same, they would -- but they can't because they spent the last seven years demonizing everything about the ACA *except* the tax.
we need the money for the secret welfare state - the DoD.
Republicans seem to prefer paying extra as long as they get to feel superior to, and delight in the misery and misfortune of others in the process.
My math is off, right? Right?
Next the RepubliKKKan's will take on Big Snakehandling--the serpent kind, not the backroom kind.
Voltaire, Ben Franklin, and so many others would be so proud, that over ~200 years since the Enlightenment, a middle-class man could dream of one day living under a government that relied on fact, research, and actual data to support their governing policies, instead of the irrational, partisan, and religious-based, emotionally-amplifying "moralistic" governance that they themselves experienced all the way back in the 1700s, when Science and Rationality were just cresting the horizon of a culture's cherished values...
#sigh
Wonder if there's any buyer's remorse there......
What do you expect?
Being poor is not something you should choose