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.
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’s 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—with 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.
The administration’s filing Monday asks a federal court to approve a ruling from earlier this year in a federal court in Texas that said Obamacare was “unconstitutional” and struck down the entirety of the health care law.
The plethora of Democrats currently running to unseat Donald Trump in 2020 eagerly pounced 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’s midterms. “If it’s a fight for healthcare this administration wants, it’s a fight they’ll get—and we will win,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tweeted Monday night. But while Trump’s 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 and every possible method to undermine Obamacare—both broadly and by slowly whittling away key provisions. What it is, though, is basically a major political gift to Democrats…
Inserted from <Mother Jones>
This is horrid. Both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell weighed in.
Underwood’s plan does not go far enough.
I have to agree. Whether or not we beat this, and I pray we can, the Republican Reich could not have provided a better gift for the 2020 campaign.
RESIST!!
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Good videos. This news makes me ill. 21 Million people. Millions of folks and children need this health care. Gawd, this is awful !!! How will we survive??? if this goes through?
Look around. What is Orange Judas trying to distract us from?
Of course, he MAY be thinking that if he can kill off enough Democrats with this move, he can win in 2020 with what remains. If so, I fear he will be disappointed.
Underwood’s plan may not go far enough, but neither does Obamacare. I’m concerned, though, that this is not 1934 and it is not 1966, and the climate to pass what we need may not be there. I will take any improvement we can get, with the caveat that we must not lose sight of the real goal.
Update – I’m going to do a “This just in” – “Trump–putting the Hell in Healthcare.” – TheGrandWazoo2
Thanks, Joanne.
I just saw this, and I’m kinda, sorta relieved at this: shhhh! don’t tell anyone. lol
From Rachel:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/03/26/maddow-trump-two-moves-doom-2020.html
This is what Bernie is saying on Twitter;
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders An ex-lobbyist for a drug company that charged $1,000 for one pill is behind Trump’s new plan to destroy the Affordable Care Act. This is”draining the swamp”?
We will defend the ACA and finally put people before profits by moving to Medicare For All.
Before the NRA bought the GOP, the insurance industry owned it. Maybe in the sales contract there was a clause allowing the latter to claim priority, if, and when, they felt they might be stopped from raking in money obscenely. I’m sure they would be happy to help Drumph’s efforts to erase the Obama presidency, and profit at the same time.
Sure get me the way tRump jumps from one subject back onto another one that I’m sure the house wasn’t expecting.
He loves setting his fires but my understanding is that some of his buddy, repugs, aren’t all for it either.
I hope that the Democrats stand up to tRump and keep people covered.
tRump certainly isn’t going to come up with a better plan.
He has you graphic, TC in mind and is ready to cause people to be uninsured.
Like I have been saying, he;s a heartless bas*ard.
RESOURCE: House has voted 54 Times to Repeal ObamaCare – AND FAILED:
GOP FAIL
And most of those were with a Republican majority House, too.
My goodness, it’s far worse than I read about yesterday. Not hundreds of thousand affected, but 20-21 million will be left without insurance at all if Drumpf & the GOP get their way, and a 130 million will have far less essential coverage than they have now. And all without even a trace of a replacement plan. If Obamacare is unconstitutional, what would we call handing millions a possible death sentence?
I hope with all my heart that this will take around two years to come to fruition so that this monstrous plan will be at its worst right before the 2020 election to have it revoked before the first fall victim to it. There really couldn’t be a better gift to Democrats than this madness, besides Drumpf taking the following to heart:
Thanks and rushed hugs.