GOP busted again with no plan to replace Obamacare -- and Paul Krugman rips them apart in only 6 word

[turbinetree]

TOM BOGGIONI
18 DEC 2018 AT 13:31 ET

Responding to report that President Donald Trump is now open to working with Democrats on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blasted Republicans for continuing to lead the fight against it without having a replacement plan in hand.

With a conservative federal judge in Texas casting doubt on the future Obamacare in a ruling late last week, the Nobel Prize-winning economist called out the GOP in exceedingly blunt terms on Twitter.

‘If there’s one thing that is absolutely clear after the past 2 years on health care, it is that Rs have no alternative to the ACA, and never will. Their plan is for people to get sick, go bankrupt, and die,” he wrote.

Responding to a comment from HuffPo health care correspondent Jonathan Cohn, who observed, “Seems pretty clear that GOP policy towards the ACA over the last 8 1/2 years has been about revving up the base as much as it’s been about fixing health care,” Krugman tersely responded.

“Half wrong. It was never about fixing health care. Not even slightly,” he wrote.

You can see the tweets below:

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/gop-busted-no-plan-replace-obamacare-paul-krugman-rips-apart-6-words/

[dalton99a]

1. Republicans are hell-bent on killing Americans - by the millions.

[turbinetree]

2. They are trying with all of there corruption to do this ...................hurt people

[barbtries]

3. sometimes it seems as if

they're hellbent on killing the entire planet. i can't figure out their back up plan.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. They don't believe in Climate Change

Or at least they're paid well enough not to care about it. I assume that they feel like they- and their benefactors- will either be dead before, or somehow be spared by, the apocalypse

[barbtries]

6. which kinda points to an unavoidable conclusion

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they're stupid.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. avoidable?

or unavoidable?

[barbtries]

9. un, thanks

aargh

[Midnightwalk]

5. Wealth transfer

A big part of republican policy is cruelty, but wealth accumulation is always there.

Medical bankruptcies is only a part if it. Draining the inheritance of middle class families is the other. They whine about inheritance taxes but after assisted living expenses, end of life care, etc what is left for an average family to leave?

Even when bankrupt medicaid kicks in and money is tranferred from tax payers to the wealthy.

Fixing health care has to mean fixing cost. I’m for single payer but we also have to attack the cost. Single payer makes that easier but not inevitable

[bigbrother05]

7. Part B of their plan: If you're already sick (pre-existing), die quickly