{"id":32748,"date":"2018-06-18T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32748"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:18:39","slug":"republicare-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/republicare-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"RepubliCare is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans have been lying about health care since long before the ACA, affectionately and hatefully known as ObamaCare passed.  Republicans are still lying about health care, but now they have almost finished dismantling ObamaCare.  The handwriting is on the wall.  RepubliCare is coming.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Senate Republicans really want you to believe that they want to keep<\/a> all the popular consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act, like coverage for pre-existing conditions. "Everybody I know in the Senate\u2014everybody\u2014is in favor of maintaining coverage for pre-existing conditions," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says. "There is no difference in opinion about that whatsoever." The chairman of the Health committee, Sen. Lamar Alexander agreed, saying "Congress specifically repealed the individual mandate penalty, but I didn\u2019t hear a single senator say that they also thought they were repealing protections for people with pre-existing conditions."<\/p>\n

So what’s Alexander doing sending a letter<\/a> to the Trump administration, along with 30 other Republican senators, telling Trump to speed up the rules for allowing people to by junk insurance, that doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Alexander and team (look, there’s Nevada’s most endangered Republican, Sen. Dean Heller!) say that allowing association health plans (AHPs) can provide "a lower cost alternative with the same sort of consumer protections and tax breaks that apply to employees who receive health care insurance from large employers." Except as the proposed rule<\/a> is written, the plans would not have to comply with some of Obamacare’s coverage requirements and patient protections. So cheap, skimpy plans that don’t cover actual health issues would be allowed again<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As soon as such plans are allowed, they will become the norm of what will be subsidized for people who cannot afford full converge.  Republicans will take tax money from citizens and give it to greedy insurance companies.  The beneficiaries who cannot pay will still get the free RepubliCare Death Benefit.  They get to die for no additional charge.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n

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Republicans have been lying about health care since long before the ACA, affectionately and hatefully known as ObamaCare passed.  Republicans are still lying about health care, but now they have almost finished dismantling ObamaCare.  The handwriting is on the wall.  RepubliCare is coming. Senate Republicans really want you to believe that they want to keep […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}