{"id":27408,"date":"2017-05-04T13:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27408"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:49:34","slug":"house-reich-passed-cruel-republicare-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/house-reich-passed-cruel-republicare-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Reich Passed Cruel RepubliCare Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes called TrumpCare, RepubliCare is infamous for the RepubliCare Death Benefit. If you can pay, you get care.  If you can’t pay, you get to die.  In that respect RepubliCare remains unchanged from Alan Grayson’s classic "Die Quickly".  The latest iteration passed the House this morning.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RepubliCare\"After years of promises and months of delays, House Republicans passed their version of an Obamacare repeal and replacement Thursday, muscling the far-right legislation through their chamber by feverishly pressuring moderates in the closing days.<\/p>\n

Republicans passed the bill 217-213, with 20 Republicans voting \u201cno\u201d and not a single Democrat voting in support.<\/p>\n

But what seems like a victory for House Republicans may ultimately be their downfall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats were of two minds about Republicans advancing the bill, which would gut some of Obamacare\u2019s most popular provisions (including protections for people with pre-existing conditions as well as the Medicaid expansion). <\/p>\n

On one hand, Democrats desperately wanted to protect President Barack Obama\u2019s signature law. On the other hand, Democrats believe \u2015 perhaps correctly \u2015 that this extremely conservative bill can\u2019t pass the Senate, and that House Republicans may have just hung a profoundly unpopular legislation around the necks of some of their most vulnerable members<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Republicans during her floor speech before the vote, Democrats plan to tattoo every provision of this bill to the foreheads of Republicans. \u201cYou will glow in the dark<\/strong>,\u201d Pelosi said… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Huffington Post<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> covered some of the key features of this hateful horror.<\/font><\/p>\n