Republicans Claim They Have a Healthcare Plan. But They Won't Tell You What's in It

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Republicans appear determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, but what will go in its place? It’s a question the party has struggled to answer since the ACA passed. Remember Trump’s first term promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare that never came to fruition?

Since the government shut down a month ago, the party has refused to publicly discuss a plan, even as ACA subsidies expire at the end of the year, forcing Americans to pay astronomically higher monthly premiums. In New Jersey, some premiums will rise by more than 175 percent. One family’s premiums will spike 300 percent. Across the board, premiums are expected to increase by an average of 26 percent for a typical ACA plan, a recent KFF analysis revealed.

The Republicans’ so-called health care plans are so secret, in fact, they won’t share them with members of their own party. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called out House Speaker Mike Johnson last week for not disclosing the party’s plans during a GOP conference call, said during an appearance on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher: “Mike Johnson, for a month now, cannot give me a single policy idea.”

She said at another point during the show, “I’m waiting for the [healthcare] plan. I haven’t seen it yet.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-claim-healthcare-plan-won-181038057.html

Don't get sick

If you do, die quickly.

[Dave Bowman]

1. They don't have jack shit but they smell like it.

[leftstreet]

2. Trump had 4 yrs to offer a plan

Margy is an opportunist, but good on her for calling the GOP out

I wish she'd get so pissed she'd call for a single payer system

[marble falls]

3. 4 years? he had 9 years.

[tanyev]

4. Ooh, ooh, I know! Tax free medical saving accounts!

Kids, start saving now for that open-heart surgery or chemotherapy you might need one day. And good luck!

[progree]

5. Trump approved this Republican health care plan in 2017 - that failed by only one vote

the AHCA and the BCRA. Problem: they were awful

This Wikipedia articles covers both the AHCA (American Health Care Act) and the BCRA (Better Care Reconciliation Act)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Health_Care_Act_of_2017

H.R. 1628, American Health Care Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 5/24/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52752
would increase the number of people who are uninsured by 23 million in 2026 relative to current law.


H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, Cost Estimate, CBO, 6/26/17
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52849
A little bit better: leaving 22 million uninsured in 2026 relative to current law.

This is the one that Senator John McCain famously turned thumbs down on. Otherwise it would have become law.
Start at 2:45

Both can only be described as acts of American Genocide. We need to call the GOP the American Genocide Party.

And no, emergency rooms are not comprehensive health care -- they do just enough to stabilize you and then give you a fistful of prescriptions that you can't afford to fill, and a bunch of referrals to doctors and specialists that you can't afford to see if you are like most uninsured. And I'm not talking about some aberrant ones that have been in a news, wheeling someone out onto the sidewalk and leaving them there. No, no, no, I'm talking about ALL of them. ALL.

[Sogo]

6. It's a concept of a plan....

nt.

[jmowreader]

7. The GOP plan is Spaghetticare

What is Spaghetticare, you may ask? Allow me to inform and delight you.

Before we had Obamacare, a lot of people who needed expensive healthcare and had no insurance would throw buffet dinners to raise money. Pretty much all these events featured spaghetti because it was cheap and easy to make. Hence, Spaghetticare.

There are two major problems with Spaghetticare: it is exceptionally hard to raise enough money for, say, a heart transplant through spaghetti dinners unless you have them in Chicago and force people to them at gunpoint, and there's only so much spaghetti one person can stand.