Health Care Reform Dead

[lisarea]

I hope their dicks fall off.

[erimir]

To be gender-neutral for the female Republicans, I hope their assholes fall out.

Also - expressing your anger to House members is still worthwhile. Lets them know that you're paying attention. That includes Republicans who voted no, particularly if they cravenly waited until the last minute to come against the bill. Tell them they don't get credit for not voting for the bill unless they actually tried to STOP IT.

[The Man]

At this point, I’m not particularly certain I’m capable of writing anything that expresses my emotions adequately. I can’t simply put a scream of rage onto the page. It’s not possible to convey that. Charlie Pierce sums things up much more adequately than I feel I can right now:

Republicans Had a Party to Celebrate Obamacare Repeal Vote in House

Without this bill, there is a possibility that I will, at some point, be able to achieve self-sufficiency. This is not an easy task for persons on the autism spectrum, and most estimates suggest that few of us ever manage it. If this bill passes, self-sufficiency will be all but impossible for me to attain. I will have far too many “pre-existing conditions” ever to be able to afford insurance unless I somehow manage to (a) move to a state where that won’t be a problem, or (b) luck into a particularly lucrative writing career.

At this point, Republicans are just as much a threat to the country as Osama bin Laden was. They want to kill thousands of Americans for a fucking tax cut.

Assorted other notes:

If you think you may want an IUD, get one now. It will probably increase in cost from $0 to $1,000 or more soon.

None of them read the fucking bill.

“I don’t think any individual has read the whole bill,” Garrett said. “That’s why we have staff.”

Every accusation is a confession.

Your 2018 Voting Guide – Balloon Juice

At this point I think I’m too enraged to continue writing for now. Fuck the Republicans and fuck every single asshole who voted for them, enabled them, apologised for them, trashed Clinton at any point after the primary, voted third party, or sat the election out (victims of voter suppression excluded). This is on all of you.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Under New Health-Care Bill, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition

Rape kit or insurance? What'll it be, ladies?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by The Man

Your 2018 Voting Guide – Balloon Juice

Fave line:

THAT’S GLIBERTARIAN PARADISE REASON MAGAZINE POINTING THAT OUT.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There's this:

House Health Care Repeal Is Already Dead In The Senate | HuffPost

I did no verify diligence as I am tired and lazy and nowhere near as meticulous as The Man, for whom I hope this lead is of use.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Random bonus:

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy - Consumer Reports

Imagine if it had been single payor.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by erimir

To be gender-neutral for the female Republicans, I hope their assholes fall out.

If the asshole falls out of a Republican ... is there anything left?

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Random bonus:

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy - Consumer Reports

Imagine if it had been single payor.

I sent that to all my Senators and my Congresswoman when I saw that, but they're all Democrats, and they all were probably going to vote no anyway.

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Random bonus:

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy - Consumer Reports

Imagine if it had been single payor.

Doctors and for-profit hospitals have been major GOP donors for decades, but the Republicans give not a single, solitary fuck that their cash cows get stiffed every time someone who can't pay his medical bills seeks bankruptcy protection.

The answer, of course, is doing away with Chapters 7 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Chapter 11 can stay cuz Trump.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Idaho GOP Congressjerk: "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care"

[Jerome]

How about not taxing health care?

This first step will free up billions to provide service.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Trump White House Says Diabetics Don't Deserve Health Care

He seems nice. What's this then. 29 million diabetics, 86 million prediabetics. Dude just said 115 million deserve to die. Godwin is laughing.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Dude just said 115 million deserve to die.

He did, and your article points out the majority of those people live in states that voted for Trump, so Trump is trying to kill off the people that voted for him!!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[The Man]

Got my hands on a *private* letter Republicans sent to *select* stakeholders seeking comments on Trumpcare. pic.twitter.com/HaRUlNY9WE

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) May 19, 2017

It would certainly be a shame if healthreform@finance.senate.gov were to be flooded with emails from angry constituents who didn't receive this letter before the deadline of May 23.

Additionally:

House May Need to Vote Again on GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill - Bloomberg

The incompetence of the modern Republican Party is too staggering for words.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by The Man

The incompetence of the modern Republican Party is too staggering for words.

But of course. They have no experience of government. Dump has literally no experience of governing, of course, but the rest are worse: they've been in government for years but their only experience is of obstructing government.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Random bonus:

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy - Consumer Reports

Imagine if it had been single payor.

Heh, just like the AGW fallacy, you have cherry picked a high point and ascribed a cause with no evidence. Even your article admits such.

[Kyuss Apollo]

[Stephen Maturin]

The dumbass who heads the Hobbesian state of nature fanboys collectively known as the Freedom Caucus has no idea what's in the Trumpcare bill or what's in the recent CBO report:

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), — who played a pivotal role in including state waiver options in AHCA — hadn't read the full report yet, but initially said he saw it as “good news.”

When reporters pointed out the portion of the CBO report saying individuals with preexisting conditions in waiver states would be charged higher premiums and could even be priced out of the insurance market — destabilizing markets in those states — under AHCA, Meadows seemed surprised.

“Well, that’s not what I read,” Meadows said, putting on his reading glasses and peering at the paragraph on the phone of a nearby reporter.

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[Jerome]

All Obamacare did was give a huge payout to big health care corp, just like Bush gave big drug corp a payout.

You fools have been taught to argue over which way the government corporation team screws over the worker.

You are fascists and don't know it. This makes you retarded.

Trumpcare will have some form of payout to some big corp off the backs of the workers, and you idiots will say BAD, and the next guy of the other colored flag will payout some other big corp off the backs of the workers, and you idiots will say GOOD.

Tools, not even the level of prostitute you are, cause you arnt getting paid.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Former health provider exec and Trump critic speaks:

The Affordable Care Act isn't raising your premiums. Republicans are

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Former health provider exec and Trump critic speaks:

Stock price for Molina Health care went from $15.47 in 2010 to a high of $80.75 in 2015.

Obamacare sure did make the author of your article a lot of money...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Keep flopping like a fish on the dock, Jerome!

[Jerome]

You do soo love being on your knees servicing the elite.