They "promised" to repeal Obamacare and these women with severely sick children voted
for them, for Whiny Donny and, no doubt, for their local representatives. And now they are marching on Washington to keep their aid?
From a story in TIME
The United Patients of America
Angéla Lorio never thought she would have a friend like Jessica Michot. Lorio is a Republican who once trained to be a nun. Michot is a Democrat who went to school to be a social worker. Lorio watches Fox News; Michot watches MSNBC. Lorio voted for Donald Trump. Michot was for Hillary Clinton all the way.
But the two Louisiana moms, who live just a dozen miles apart, were drawn to each other by a force stronger than politics. They met in 2013, after discovering on Facebook that they had overlapped for months in a Baton Rouge neonatal intensive care unit, praying over tiny beds. Lorio’s son John Paul and Michot’s son Gabriel were born at 27 weeks, which led to severe problems that require them to eat through feeding tubes and breathe through “trachs.” Both boys, now 4, also have developmental delays, and their mothers rely on Medicaid to defray the costs of caring for their sons at home.
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Now, as Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress work to overhaul America’s health care policy, Lorio and Michot find themselves united for another reason: both moms are committed to stopping the Senate Republicans’ health care plan, which they see as a direct threat to their children’s welfare. Of particular concern is a provision in a Senate draft proposal that would allow insurance companies to impose lifetime caps on benefits, which could make seriously ill patients essentially uninsurable in the private market. Lorio and Michot also oppose a projected 35% reduction over two decades in federal funding for Medicaid, which they fear would force states to eliminate the programs that help parents of disabled children care for their kids at home. “They will be cutting off his life support,” Michot, 33, says of Gabriel. “Without Medicaid, he would either be dead or institutionalized.”
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Some parent-advocates have seen the GOP stance on health care as a reason to question their party identity. Alison Chandra, who considered herself a Republican because of the party’s position on abortion, finds it hard to square that value for life with the GOP health care proposals. “I’ve always seen it as very black and white, like the Republicans are pro-life and I’m pro-life, so I guess I’m a Republican,” says Chandra, 33, a former pediatric nurse in New Jersey whose son Ethan, 3, has heterotaxy, a rare condition that caused him to be born with nine congenital heart defects, two left lungs and five spleens. While Chandra and Ethan are covered under her husband’s employer-based insurance, the return of lifetime caps would render Ethan virtually uninsurable. His care has already cost almost $2 million in just three years. “The party that would have crucified me for aborting my child now wants to make it impossible for me to keep him alive,” she says.
http://time.com/4856231/the-united-patients-of-america/
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I really cannot feel sorry for them
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Too bad the rest of us have to go down with the ship also 
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said this weekend that he was nearly ready to unveil a plan to replace President Obama’s Affordable Care Act with “insurance for everybody.”
Mr. Trump, in an interview Saturday evening with The Washington Post, said that health care offered under his plan would come “in a much simplified form — much less expensive and much better.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/us/politics/trump-health-law-replacement.html
and, no doubt for Republican candidates for Congress.
They probably still support him.
Thus, when the Republicans, for seven years, and Trump, promised to repeal Obamacare, what exactly were they expecting?
May I offer you the same advice of your title, but without the smugness?
It's been months since the election and even though I'm a pretty laid back person I can't stop being outraged and sick about the outcome and everything that's happened (and we've found out about) since. What do we need to do with these people? Break bread with them and coddle them because they made some awful voting decisions that they don't appear to regret? I want to feel sorry for them because I'm a compassionate person by nature but I have a hard time forgiving and forgetting people whom were presented with an objectively unqualified candidate who has horrible personal qualities and promoted horrible racist, xenophobic policies during the campaign. And he told everybody- as did every single Republican candidate out there- that he was going to repeal ACA and presented no real alternative for anybody to judge or evaluate and yet these people voted for him- enough to put him over the top in the EC. Add to that the Russian influence- the full extent of which we still don't know yet- and the idiocy of people voting for third parties, leaving the top line blank, doing write-in candidates, or simply not voting and look at what kind of mess we are in now!
If they want to march against repealing ACA, let them in, but they're not going to help much by then going to the polls next time and voting the same crop of people into office so that they can keep trying to repeal it.
