When I reported on the passage of RepubliCare yesterday, I could only guess at the Ramifications. A day later we’re learning what is actually in there. The more we learn, the more horrific it becomes, and few people are better at digging out the dirt than Rachel Maddow.
Rachel Maddow could not hold back about the catastrophe that is Trumpcare; the AHCA just passed by the Republicans House of Representatives. Maddow spent the time to detail the pain that the AHCA will inflict on Americans if it ever became the law of the land.
Maddow explained with numbers the increased in premiums caused by various preexisting conditions… The premiums would be unaffordable and as such tantamount to not having insurance at all.
Rachel Maddow details the AHCA’s carnage
Maddow then went on to enumerate some of the major draconian features of the bill.
- States can get waivers which will allow insurance companies to charge more for preexisting conditions.
- States can opt out of rules that require insurance companies from providing some basic services.
- Mental health coverage and drug coverage and other similar services will wither away.
- Insurance companies can charge old people five times more for insurance than they do young people.
- Big companies no longer have to provide health insurance to their employees.
- Hospitals will suffer as they lose revenue from both less insured customers and at the same time they do not recover the reduced fees agreed upon when Obamacare was passed.
- If you are poor and dependent on Medicaid, brace yourself, it will be cut substantially.
Maddow did find one sweet spot in the new bill. If you are rich and you make over $200,000 a year, you will partake of a $300 billion tax cut… [emphasis original]
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Here are two clips from Rachel’s Show. In the first, she looks at key consequences.
In the second she examines RepubliCare as a plan to shift wealth.
That’s right. $900 MILLION from Medicaid.
With the caveat that many Republican legislators are too incompetent to have read the bill, there can be no doubt that the intent of those, who actually know what it contains, is to kill poor seniors and the sickest poor Americans.
RESIST!!
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Well, the law is certainly very well described by Rachel, and her guest backs that up in spades. I think I have found the Republican attitude in response, though:
Bloodsucking coldblooded B's! #4: I'm older, so will get charged 5x as much as they charge younger people for the same health insurance. #7: Medicaid cuts, we're screwed big time.
On the same note, schools will lose Medicaid for the Sp.Ed. kids, where most of those students with disabilities, get care under this program, (Medicaid), and it will be nixed. What will happen to those children??! And those that assist these children?
*List of 20 Republicans who voted AGAINST the bill:
https://www.axios.com/republican-no-votes-on-ahca-2392731982.html
Mike Coffman is in a swing district which went for Hillary. He is legitimately scared. No other Colorado Republican voted no.
NO, I must disagree with your interpretation about the intent of the bill. I believe the intent of the bill is no more, nor less, than that "Redistribution" of the billions. Period! This is a process thatNixon kind of started, but thatRonald ("You can have it all!)Reagan, put into very high gear! What they do, as the Republicans have done for so long, at least back to Reaganhole, is take from those who have the least perceived political clout…particularly the poor! A possible seondary intent might be to CONTINUE to wear away anything that remotely smells of the New Deal, a process that generations, now, of conservatives have assiduously worked for. Recall that some of the money they can funnel up the ladder, they can expect to get back in election donations, and, with Citizens United in their pockets, these can be huge donations!
RESIST, RESIST, RESIST!!!!!
Redistribution is only part of the intent, which includes it as thye end and death as the means to that end.
They are despicable!
It's even worse than I thought, even though my expectations were extremely low. It's shocking and Draconian, there are no other words for it and instead of just voting for it the Republicans who voted "yes", without even having read it, should have been made to sign the damn bill in their own blood, so posterity will remember them for what they did.
I won't go into all of the points Rachel put forward, just the one that nearly broke the jaw of this European: #5 Big companies no longer have to provide health insurance to their employees. In the EU it is strictly forbidden for a government to subsidize or favor any of their companies so that they have an unfair advantage over others in that country or in the EU. And here the Republicans have voted for a bill that allows some companies, the LARGE companies who have their lobbyist's hands up the backs of their Republican puppets, to do away with health care insurance for their employees, giving them an even greater cost-advantage over the the little companies than they already had, at the cost of their own employees. Dare I ask if such a provision is even constitutional?
Not only does this Trumpcare bill give the 1% individuals disgustingly high tax breaks, it also gives (only) large companies a break from healthcare costs and a way to maximize their profits, and thereby another unfair advantage over smaller companies. Is there anyone still not convinced America is a plutocracy?
RESIST & PERSIST!
Lona, small companies are already exempt under the ACA.
Oooops, my bad. Thanks for setting me straight on that one, TomCat.
No Biggie! Just an FYI.
Your analysis is still correct. Whether they were specifically giving an advantage to big, or simply equalizing a previous advantage to small, the tilt is toward the big. If that makes any sense.
What a piece of crap legislation!!!
Politicians are elected to SERVE the people. Republicans are clearly only $ERVING themselves!
Every last Republican needs to be kicked to the curb at the soonest possible time.
Resist and Persist!!!
Rachel has become mandatory viewing in our house – she is the one who keeps the focus on trump and Russia and is not afraid to point out everything we need to know. She can say a lot with a look, an eyebrow raise, or a laugh and I'm sure trump hates her.
This bill is a war against women, the poor, the old, the sick…but hey, erectile disfunction is covered. The ray of hope is that anti-trump groups got HUGE donations within an hour after the vote. And people are getting very creative in finding ways to reach their representatives – billboards, newspaper ads, even milk cartons with "have you seen my congressman?" Anyone who doesn't respond to the people they work for needs to become unemployed….
Thanks all! Hugs!