If ObamaCare is a trainwreck, TrumpCare’s a nightmare.
It’s one of the most cynical legislative schemes ever devised. It’s no health-care plan at all; it’s a massive giveaway to the rich disguised as health reform; it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing; it’s Robin Hood in reverse; it’s lipstick on a pig (sorry, pigs).
Fortunately, 88 percent of Americans think the proposal stinks.
The 13 smug senators who drafted that bill in secret (no women senators among them) ought to be ashamed of themselves. But they’re not. No conscience, no shame.
What’s worse, those who support the bill crow proudly as if they are the Founding Fathers of a new and wonderful health system for all. They are so stupid as to think most of us are dumb enough to buy their snake oil.
Their rotten proposal is a joke on them, and it proves the following:
- For seven years Republicans huffed and puffed against ObamaCare, but in all that time they didn’t once work out a sane, rational, humane proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act. Then they gained control of Congress at which time (oops!), they discovered health care is “really complicated.” But because of seven years of constant repeal-replace threats/promises, they had to come up – quick! – with something, anything.
- Most Republicans were so obstructionist during Obama’s two terms they refused to help fix the Affordable Care Act. Not only that, they cooked up nefarious schemes to make sure the flaws in the ACA would grow worse. Out of sheer spite, they were out to kill it from Day One. They poisoned the wells. They lied constantly and loudly about ObamaCare, so much so that many Americans began to buy into the kneejerk lies. And those lies were parroted over and over again. Still are.
- The prime motivator of the drafters of this garbage proposal was not concern for the health of fellow Americans but the usual fixation on giving more and more – and bigger – tax breaks to the rich. The proposal is not inspired by any sort of kindness; it’s fueled by tax-cut mania.
- This vicious bill is larded with the long-time hatreds of extremists against Planned Parenthood, against so-called “Big Government,” against social safety-net programs, against the social contract with its long-established cornerstones of decency, kindness and fairness. The bill is yet another effort by selfish reactionaries to eradicate progressive achievements of the past century.
- This grotesque plan, doomed to fail (even if it passes) is predicated upon a dumb-but-persistent assumption – that free-market forces, if left alone, will lower health-care costs. Vigorous competition and the health-care industry are like oil and water; they don’t mix. With its insurance base and its cahoots with Big Pharm, health care American style has long been a virtual monopoly.
The verdict is in: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined this pathetic excuse for a “fix” will cause 22 million people to lose health insurance, those who need Medicaid services will be left in the dust sooner or later, premiums will increase, medical costs will not decrease and, people in their 50s and early 60s will have to pay up to five times more for their insurance premiums.
How dare they trumpet this obscenity?
But let’s hasten to mention the legislation’s real (and only) success – the nearly $1 trillion in tax cuts, about half of it going to the richest of the rich. As the saying goes, “The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.” This bill’s motto should be this: The rich get even richer, the poor get poorer – and sicker.”
Remember Trump’s campaign promise? Health care will be the best, best quality ever, affordable for all. Yet another lie.
This disgraceful health-care proposal (so-called!) is a kick in the teeth to millions of good Americans struggling to survive. To many, it’s a death sentence. And this from those who railed against the ObamaCare “death panels.”
If you boil down this legislative scam, at the very bottom of it, among the oily dregs, you will find a slimy message: “Sick? No coverage? Tough luck.”
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