Republicans voted over 70 times to repeal Obamacare...

[spanone]

and now we suddenly trust them?

[Silent Type]

1. Don't appear to have much choice. Hope we have a promotional campaign to get subsidies.

[herding cats]

2. I don't.

I'm in the direct line of fire of this concession, not that that seems to matter to those deciding to cave in and just let me die.

It's not just the repercussions from me, and those like me, no longer being able to afford insurance for my cancer care. There's all those Democrats who love people like me who are going to be betrayed, too. We may not be legion in the Democratic Party, but I swear I'll spend the last of my life screaming from the rooftops how I spent my entire life working for, supporting and believing in the Democratic Party until this moment. The moment when they abandoned me to die because it was too hard dealing with these mean Republicans under Trump.

[gab13by13]

3. Yup, voting yes

Will kill 50,000 Americans per year, so says the Kaiser Family Foundation. Other insurance plans and Medicare and Medicaid, the Va are all being gutted.

AI will replace us, Project 2025 wants to cull the herd.

Republicans finally killed Obamacare with help from 8 Senators and Schumer. Schumer enabled the CR back in March.

[herding cats]

5. I cannot believe I have an aggressive form of cancer I'm battling right now.

The hell I've been through this past year battling my current ACA policy to fund my Lynparza (I paid 8k in copays and another 7k in premiums and then they decided not to approve it anymore) and i finally get the next two months of my meds!! Which now may be my last.

My meds are working. My CA 125 is 11. I've fought so hard to be here right now to have it ripped from my hands like this because Trump is being a bully. Fuck that shit! People like me ARE worth fighting for!

[jfz9580m]

10. "Which now may be my last"

I really hope not..that sucks..

People like me ARE worth fighting for!

Absolutely..that’s how I felt about my mom. I was devastated when dad and I lost her..

[spanone]

4. Nor do I.

I also think many of the gains we saw on Tuesday were in part because we were standing up to these heartless thugs.
We threw that all away.

[herding cats]

6. I agree

This one will not be an easy one to pretend was necessary. At least not if I have anything to say about it.

[jfz9580m]

7. ..

no longer being able to afford insurance for my cancer care

All the best to you..I lost my mom to cancer.
I do feel for you and others like you. I really hope..something changes and soon.

(Fortunately, we are not American and she had a decent pension and healthcare as a public sector retiree even here in the global south. I hope we don’t copy you guys overmuch..)

[herding cats]

8. Thank you for your kind words.

I'm so sorry about your mother. My heart goes out to you.

Cancer is so cruel without being fearful of if you can afford to continue fighting for your life.

I've been doing so well battling this and I had my oncologist thinking I might just become one of her longer term success stories for my form of cancer.

I feel like the rug has just been pulled out from under me. I am devastated.

[jfz9580m]

9. I am very sad to hear that

It was hard enough to file compensation claims when I was my mom’s caregiver with insurance. Even if you get everything right, insurance companies make it as effortful as possible for you to get a refund.

I remember thinking bitterly at the time that it is probably built into their profit model that a subset of cancer patients or their caregivers would just give up. And she had very good healthcare. The mere effort of filing the claim was difficult enough.

I really hope things turn around for you herding_cats. I am so sorry to hear this.

(Instead of the kind of garbage human interest they sell, maybe non-tabloid journalism should do more by way of putting human faces like yours on to issues that are being reduced to statistics.)

[Nanjeanne]

11. Trust them? We just gave them what they couldn't do themselves. We killed the ACA.

[B.See]

12. Precisely.