Trumpcare

The Republican Party won control of government promising: Help for the unemployed, help for the uninsured; help for the struggling, help for the anxious. But help isn't on its agenda. The plan, instead, is cruelty.

It’s how we get the Affordable Health Care Act, a profoundly nasty bill whose callousness is just barely matched by its shoddy, haphazard construction. Here is what the AHCA, deemed “Trumpcare,” would do if signed into law: Allow states to waive coverage for “essential health benefits” like hospitalization, maternity care, and mental health coverage; allow discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions like asthma, cancer, and other ailments without a safety net for Americans priced out of the individual market; allow employers to hollow out health benefits for their employees, threatening health insurance for the millions of Americans who receive it through their jobs; remove funding that helps give care to children in special education classes.

Under the original AHCA, 24 million people would lose insurance. House Republicans have ignored the Congressional Budget Office and kept the text of the bill from public view. But when you’ve ended protections for pre-existing conditions and destabilized individual and group markets, it’s a virtual guarantee that even more Americans will lose health insurance on top of those 24 million.

That’s millions of low-income Americans, unable to pay for basic—but often life-saving—care. That’s millions of American women, ineligible for health insurance because they were once pregnant, or abused, or raped. That’s addicts, many in communities that voted for Donald Trump and back Republican lawmakers, who can’t purchase or afford insurance because of their addiction. That’s someone struggling with mental health issues, now deemed a high risk for insurers. That’s countless Americans who, through chance or fate, live with injuries and disorders and diseases that will leave them uninsurable without the protections of the Affordable Care Act.

All of this is being done not to improve the American health care system or deliver better (or cheaper) care—as House Speaker Paul Ryan continuously and falsely insists—but to cut taxes on the richest taxpayers. The AHCA, in other words, isn’t a health care bill as much as it is a vehicle for upward redistribution, taking from the bottom to give to the very top.

...you really don't have a life if you have the time to write this, do you?

Can you dispute the FACTS???

Yet you're just here complaining.

Complaining? No.... informing. I'm 60 years old and have had health insurance all of my adult life.
I don't worship rich people and vote to make them richer.

You're not 60, you're just an idiot. You have no proof, you're just whining on a site that won't help you,

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Who else would vote to give massive tax cuts to the wealthy?

I don't really care much about this site other than making the meme's to post on other sites and give you guys a hard time.

Then why are you whining here? Stop complaining on this site. You are something we like to call, whiner

Don't like them? Then dont read them. It's just that simple.

Kys

If I were 60 years old and never had insurance through an employer, I'd be worried about my government issued insurance too. Hey, newsflash. No more hand outs!

Not what I said

"I'm 60 years old and HAVE had health insurance all of my adult life. "

I'm divorced. I'm on a single plan. Under ACA it was 25.00 a week, through my employer. I've paid much higher premiums in the past, before ACA. As soon as Trump started messing things up, it doubled. When I asked human resources why there was such a jump in premium, I was told, the insurance companies are worried about what this administration is going to do to them.
I'm a trucker going into my 35th year now. You can look up any trucking company, and read their benefits package. All include healthcare. I've never had my insurance refused. Doctors and hospitals don't care where the money comes from, as long as they are getting paid. Whether it comes out of your bank or from an insurance company, doesn't really matter to them. I don't know anyone that has had a doctor refuse a guaranteed payment from a health insurance company.

I insure my house and my vehicles. Why would I not insure my health?

In December of 2013, I spent 4 days in ICU with a punctured lung. The bill was close to 19,000.00. I paid the 3000.00 deductible and walked away with my bill paid in full.

The only hand outs in health insurance is from the people that go to the hospital, but never pay their bill. People with insurance, before ACA, paid higher premiums to cover losers that don't pay their bill.