The Republican Party has an increasing number of skeptics about the Paul Ryan alternative bill to ObamaCare, which has now been scored on its effect on the budget by the Congressional Budget Office, and it is a total disaster.
All of the following are unhappy with the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, as it is, but warn against the House sponsored plan:
Governor John Kasich of Ohio
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas
Congressman Darrell Issa of California
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado
Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Senator Susan Collins of Maine
Senator Dean Heller
But also there are the right wing extremists, the Freedom Caucus House Republicans who oppose the Ryan bill, as do the following groups:
Freedom Works
Club For Growth
Heritage Action
And the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Association Of Retired Persons, and many other groups are also totally against the legislation.
So in the midst of control of both Houses and the White House, the Republican Party is in a crisis as to how to appeal to their base, as they work to deny them health care–elderly, sick, disabled, and poor.
Professor, Between his greatest health plan ever and his spokespersons Orwellian “wire tapping is not wiretapping” and microwaves can be turned into cameras, I think we need to call the spirit of Dr. Seuss to comment:
I do not like his health plan scare
I do not like his lack of care
I do not like his constant “no”
I do not like his orange glow
I do not like his Cabinet choices
I do not like his changing voices
I do not like his hate of science
I do not like his global warming deniance
I do not like the power he craves
I do not like he wants us slaves
I do not like his plans one bit
I do not like this Trumpy twit
Paul, I love it, love it, love it! LOL
One of the highlights of the Ryan/Trump proposed plan are that once you die from no preventative health care, the federal deficit goes down by $337 billion over 10 years. The plan empowers sick people to take one for the team. Talk about patriotism…
I just came across this video, “24 Million Will Lose Health Insurance With Trumpcare.†It tells more than I will what I will say here. But, I will mention this: the Republicans don’t have meaningful plan unless they go for single payer.
http://youtu.be/1_voDmdD0Ww
Precisely, D, but to imagine the Republicans ever to accept single payer is to believe in the tooth fairy, as single payer to them is SOCIALISM, a dirty word!
As the Horizons blog Tweeted recently: What Republicans always knew and too many liberals missed: Medicaid expansion was always the true public option in Obamacare.
https://twitter.com/Smartypants60/status/841696015535243265
From “The Young Turks” is this interesting video.
http://youtu.be/ftLqOHitn6w
“The Young Turks” video has most interesting comments from reporter David Sirota.
In this next report, something that should have happened a long time ago were the actions of thousands of citizens.
Over 350,000 Back Call for Lawmakers To Give Up Their Subsidized Healthcare
By Nika Knight | March 15, 2017
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/over-350000-back-call-lawmakers-give-their-subsidized-healthcare
“Highlighting the hypocrisy of members of Congress who benefit from large healthcare subsidies at the same time that they work to kick millions of Americans off of their health coverage, a man who lost his father to cancer because he was uninsured has created a petition demanding an end to those subsidies for lawmakers.”