{"id":36051,"date":"2019-03-27T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36051"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:34:26","slug":"here-comes-republicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/here-comes-republicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes RepubliCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

RepubliCare is the Republican Plan for health care, if Trump and his Republican Reich are successful in destroying the Affordable Care Act.  Its sole feature is the RepubliCare Death Benefit.  If you can afford to pay enough for health care to mike a profit for Big Insurance and Big Pharma, you get health care.  If not, you get to die almost free.  (the Reich charges only 100% of your remaining assets as a modest disposal fee.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Late Monday night the Trump administration issued an eye-catching legal filing, essentially advocating for the elimination of the entire Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. This was a reversal from the White House\u2019s previous position, which only sought to invalidate certain, often popular, provisions of the law. If the administration gets its way, there would be widespread chaos as the health care system would drastically revert to its pre-ACA era existence overnight\u2014with impacts ranging from millions of people losing Medicaid to insurers being able to refuse people because of preexisting conditions and to charge people for birth control<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s filing Monday asks a federal court to approve a ruling from earlier this year in a federal court in Texas that said Obamacare was \u201cunconstitutional<\/a>\u201d and struck down the entirety of the health care law. <\/p>\n

The plethora of Democrats currently running to unseat Donald Trump in 2020 eagerly pounced<\/a> on the news as a major development, making it even more clear that health policy will be keyed up as a prime topic during the next presidential election, just as it was in last year\u2019s midterms. \u201cIf it\u2019s a fight for healthcare this administration wants, it\u2019s a fight they\u2019ll get\u2014and we will win,\u201d Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted<\/a> Monday night. But while Trump\u2019s opposition to health care reforms received plenty of attention Tuesday morning, the legal filing was not actually a major break in policy goals; Trump and his officials have spent the past two years latching onto any<\/a> and every<\/a> possible<\/a> method<\/a> to undermine<\/a> Obamacare\u2014both broadly and by slowly whittling away key provisions. What it is, though, is basically a major political gift to Democrats…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is horrid.  Both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell weighed in.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel’s Video<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n