TrumpCare or RyanCare or WeDon'tCare?

[JackLuis]

Who Hates TrumpCare More Than Democrats? Other Republicans, Of Course.

Mind you, the RyanCare/Trumpcare/WeDon’tCare plan released Monday only addresses parts of the ACA that can be passed through the filibuster-proof budget resolution process, so assuming the R’s find 51 votes in the Senate to pass it and eliminate the ACA, they may or may not actually pass anything else at all, ever, because why would they go and do that? HHS Secretary Tom Price explained in a presser Tuesday that the whole thing is a “work in progress,” a starting point for further work in Congress. Who knows what final form it’ll take? Maybe single payer, maybe Death Panels for all. He also had this very reassuring answer to a question about whether people would lose coverage under TrumpCare:


And then there are the four really evil Senate RINOs who are against the House proposal because they have this crazy idea that it might be politically risky for Republicans to push millions of people off Medicaid, which seems almost progressive by comparison. What’s up with those guys?

On Monday, four Republican senators — Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — signed a letter saying a House draft that they had reviewed did not adequately protect people in states like theirs that have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

 

[JackLuis]

The agency that could derail Paul Ryan’s Obamacare repeal

The prospects for House Republicans’ proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare, unveiled Monday night, may well hinge on one small federal agency. The biggest unanswered questions that dog the new bills drafted by two House committees—and Republicans’ repeal effort, more generally—are how much their plan will cost and how many people will lose insurance. And it’s up to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a nonpartisan agency that analyzes the impact of proposed legislation for Congress, to estimate what those figures are likely to be.

The CBO is not known for Voodoo Economics so will Rethuglicans 'Ram It Down Our Throats!" or Will more rational Republicans bring the wingnuts to heel? Tune In next weak on Trump TV!

 

[JackLuis]

‘You can’t wait one week?’: Shep Smith hammers GOP rep for pushing healthcare bill without knowing costs

Fox News host Shep Smith on Tuesday hammered Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) over the House Republican healthcare plan, demanding to know how many people will lose insurance as a result of the bill.

The bill was released Monday without any score from the Congressional Budget Office, which is expected to reflect that the new bill will not cover more people than the Affordable Care Act—despite assurances to the contrary made previously by Republican leaders.

Well at least Buddy didn't stammer. However he never answered the question but spouted bullshit fake news headlines. He's from Georgia.

 

[JackLuis]

Dem rep. trolls GOP with amendment requiring health bill to meet Trump’s ‘insurance for all’ promise

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) on Tuesday tried to force the Republican Party to uphold President Donald Trump’s promise of “insurance for everybody.”

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Republican plan to replace President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, Blumenauer became the first lawmaker to offer an amendment to the GOP bill.

Blumenauer’s amendment would prevent any of the provisions in the American Health Care Act to take effect until the Congressional Budget Office could verify that the law would provide “coverage for all tax payers.”

 

[JackLuis]

‘It is an act of malice’: Dem lawmaker cites the Bible to take Trumpcare to the woodshed

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) absolutely torched the House Republicans’ health care plan on Wednesday, and he did it by throwing House Speaker Paul Ryan’s words back in his face.

Noting that Ryan called the House GOP health care plan an “act of mercy,” Kennedy noted that there’s nothing at all in the New Testament that would justify stripping health insurance from millions of people.

“With all due respect to our speaker, he and I must have read different Scripture,” said Kennedy. “The one I read calls on us to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, and to comfort the sick.”

TrumpCare, restructured CEO bonus and fuck the poor!

 

[JackLuis]

Not So Happy With TrumpDontCare? How About John Conyers’s ‘Medicare For All’ Instead?

From an intuitive perspective, the Trump administration might seem the absolutely wrong political time to be calling for single-payer health care. The sensible thing is for liberals to hunker down, hedge our bets, shore up our defenses, gird our loins, unmix our metaphors, and do everything we can to defend the Affordable Care Act, right? Well OF COURSE we’re going to do that. But while we’re at it, since Congress, the media, and a good chunk of the voting public are actually spending a few minutes focusing on America’s ungodly mess of a health care “system” again, why don’t we also make a hell of a lot of noise about single-payer while we’ve got their attention? And the appropriate vehicle is Michigan Rep. John Conyers’s perennial House bill to extend Medicare to all Americans. As L.A Times business columnist David Lazarus says, even if it has no chance of passing in a Republican-controlled Congress, the bill, HR 676,
would build on the successful single-payer insurance program that already covers more than 55 million people and bring the United States in line with almost all other developed nations in providing taxpayer-funded health coverage for

 

[needit700]

anything better than

Obummer care that's for sure.

 

[JackLuis]

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[Carnal_Flower]

Yeah but I'm not crying for Trumpsters about to get screwed.

‘It is an act of malice’: Dem lawmaker cites the Bible to take Trumpcare to the woodshed



TrumpCare, restructured CEO bonus and fuck the poor!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Great little editorial on Trumpcare by Paul Krugman:

A Bill So Bad It's Awesome

 

[JackLuis]

HHS head Tom Price calls scathing CBO health care report ‘not believable’ while admitting he hasn’t read it

Health and Human Services Secretary Price criticized a U.S. Congressional Budget Office report that stated that millions will lose insurance with the GOP replacement plan for Obamacare — after admitting that he hadn’t read it yet.

Speaking with the press after the report was issued, stating 14 million more people would be uninsured in 2018 and 24 million more in 2026 if the plan being considered in the House of Representatives were adopted, Price dismissed it.

“We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and their family, not that the government forces them to buy,” Price stated after calling it “not believable.”

Asked by a reporter if the CBO was wrong in their estimates, Price responded that he had yet to read it but its estimates were “virtually impossible.”

So it's like Trumps tweets then?

 

[JackLuis]

‘Thousands of Americans will die’: Bernie Sanders uses CBO report to slam GOP’s ‘immoral’ health care plan

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ripped into the proposed GOP health care plan, citing a U.S. Congressional Budget Office report that stated millions will lose coverage under the replacement to Affordable Care Act.

According to The Hill, Sanders said the replacement plan would be responsible for unnecessary deaths.

“If this legislation is passed and millions of people are thrown off health insurance, thousands of Americans will die,” Sanbdeers told reporters.

“I think that legislation is disgusting. It is immoral,” Sanders added. “It must defeated and I hope there is enough sense amongst some of the Republicans.”

Sanders has long been a proponent of single-payer health insurance for all Americans.

But Bernie, Health Care CEO's will get a raise! Why are you against people making a few extra shekels?

 

[JackLuis]

Fox host stunned as Paul Ryan calls CBO report ‘encouraging’: ‘What would you be discouraged by?’

Fox News host Bret Baier was left stunned by House Speaker Paul Ryan’s continued pushing of the American Health Care Act—despite an abysmal score by the Congressional Budget Office.

During Baier’s “Special Report” on Monday, Ryan said the CBO report—which revealed 14 million Americans could lose insurance under the House plan—exceeded his expectations.

“Well, actually, I think, if you read this entire report, I’m pretty encouraged by it,” Ryan said. “And it actually exceeded my expectations.”

Baier was a tad flummoxed by Ryan’s assertion. “If you’re encouraged by this CBO report, what’s a CBO report you’re discouraged by?” Baier asked.

The Representative of Insurance. com was afraid that too many 10%ers wouldn't get their tax break, I guess?

 

[JackLuis]

Keith calls out Trump over Health care.

The numbers people are bandying about claim ~300,000 Americans will die each year under "Trump Don't Care!"

 

[phrodeau]

Obama lied when he said you could keep your doctor and your plan, and an average family would save $2,000 a year.

How many lies have we heard, or will we be hearing from Trump, Ryan and Price?

 

[JackLuis]

‘It’s a disaster’: Chase Bank chief economist tears Trumpcare to pieces on CNN

Chan then went on to note that the projected cost savings in the plan come from slashing funding for programs that benefit low-income Americans.

“We’re going to save more than $800 billion through this plan, and how are we going to do that?” he asked rhetorically. “By reducing our expenditures through Medicaid! That is not the way to increase the number of people enrolled.”

Chan also suggested that the projected $300 billion saved through the passage of Trumpcare could be used to spend more money on helping people get coverage, instead of funding tax cuts for rich people.

Trump Don't Care (TDC) is an abomination of a Tax Gift to the Rich and has nothing to do with "Choice or Freedom or Health Care."

 

[JackLuis]

Conservatives React To TrumpCare, Call For … Wait, Single Payer?
https://wonkette.com/614224/conservatives-react-to-trumpcare-call-for-wait-single-payer

Now that the Congressional Budget Office has released its analysis of the effects of the Republican plan to kill the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a cardboard standee of a doctor, the Republican consensus is in: After repealing the ACA, they need to kill the CBO, too. Or at the very least, Republicans simply don’t believe the CBO’s estimate that repealing the ACA will cause 24 million people to lose health insurance by 2026, although they’re pretty sure the same report’s estimate of deficit reduction is perfectly accurate. Let’s start right at the top, from Tom Price, the secretary of Dismantling Health and Human Services, who said it was a load of hooey:

Or heck, you could simplify the whole thing and make Medicare available to all Americans.

Strangely, that’s almost what the free-market loons at NewsMax endorsed in response to the CBO report; Newsmax editor (and real life close Trump pal) Christopher Ruddy has decided that since states regulate insurance companies, then private insurance isn’t REALLY a market-based system, so for all Americans who can’t afford insurance he wants Medicaid (not Medicare) for all, at least until the free market finds a way to make cheap, full-coverage insurance available to everyone. It is actually an insane piece of writing that insists on single-payer coverage as a stopgap until the market figures out how to make insurance much cheaper. We actually sort of support that, if only because no truly free market approach to healthcare exists anywhere or is able to provide universal coverage. So if Ruddy wants single payer until Free Market Jesus comes, we’re willing to take the single-payer part and wait right along with him.

We might snicker at him quietly, though.

 

[JackLuis]

TrumpCare Is Devastating Republicans as Trump’s Approval Rating Tanks to 39%

President Trump's approval rating on the Gallup Daily Tracking poll tanked to 39% from 45% on the 11th. This coincides with the disastrous rollout of TrumpCare.

Keep digging Donald! There is gold under all that bullshit!

Poor Donald, only 39% will say they like him.

Maybe he shouldn't be such a shallow asshole?

 

[Legatus]

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Here's to hoping ;-)

 

[phrodeau]

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[Carnal_Flower]

Good one.

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[phrodeau]

Good one.

Thanks.

 

[JackLuis]

‘This isn’t freedom’: Chris Wallace grills Paul Ryan for plan to crush seniors with health care costs

Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday that his plan to reform the health care system would crush older Americans by forcing them to either drop insurance coverage or pay thousands more.

During a Sunday interview, Wallace said that 24 million fewer Americans overall would have insurance under the Ryan plan in 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

“You said that part of that is that this is what freedom looks like,” Wallace recalled. “But is the major decrease in the number of people — according to the CBO — who will have health insurance, is it freedom or is it that some people will no longer be able to afford health insurance under your plan?”

Wallace noted a CBO estimate which said that a 64 year old making less than $27,000 a year will pay $14,600 a year for health insurance instead of the $1,700 they pay now under President Barack Obama’s law.

Ryan had no answer but "Choice" bullshit. Seniors can choose to not eat to have health Insurance, or they can choose to die early, it's their choice that Rethuglicans give them. Choose wisely!

 

[JackLuis]

‘Get those people off of Medicaid’: Tom Cotton says ‘able-bodied’ poor people don’t deserve ‘welfare’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday called on “able-bodied” poor people to be removed from Medicaid.

CNN host Jake Tapper noted during an interview on State of the Union that Republican governors had criticized House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan to repeal Obamacare because it would reduce funds for Medicaid, leaving millions without medical coverage.

“They are saying, by removing the Medicaid expansion that happened during Obamacare, that helped provide insurance to 250,000 Arkansans, this replacement is going to take it away,” Tapper explained. “Does that concern you?”

Cotton declared that many people on Medicaid should be purchasing their own insurance instead.

“Medicaid is a welfare program,” he said. “It’s primarily designed for the indigent, elderly, the disabled, the blind and children.”

“It’s not designed for able-bodied adults,” Cotton continued. “We want to get those people off of Medicaid, into a job and into market-based insurance.”

SO I guess Cotton is introducing a Jobs Bill to get the able bodied back to work in a good paying job? Oh right, finding a job is an individuals responsibility in Trump's 'Merica.

 

[JackLuis]

‘It will simply devastate lives’: Jan Brewer paints damning picture of GOP health care plan

According to an analysis of the state’s current Medicaid plan, keeping residents insured would cost Arizona close to $500 million a year by 2023 in a conservative state where tax increases are nearly impossible to pass.

Of concern to Brewer is the loss of coverage by Arizonans, who were able to take advantage of Medicaid after the former governor expanded coverage before she left office. The move added about 400,000 Arizonans out of the 1.9 million covered by Medicaid in the state.

Speaking on the Ryan proposal that would replace the Affordable Care Act, Brewer harshly denounced it.