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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 01:44 AM Sep 2017

New GOP Health Care Bill Worse Than All The Others. Will Destroy All Health Care.

Just sending money to the states will throw all health care into chaos. Insurance companies will have to extremely raise rates even for people NOT on the ACA. Their premiums will go stratospheric. Sick people will flood the ER's and rural hospitals and clinics will end up closing.

This new bill ia an atomic bomb to the whole health care system. It is like torpedoing the Titanic and shooting all the survivors.

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New GOP Health Care Bill Worse Than All The Others. Will Destroy All Health Care. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Sep 2017 OP
That's the plan, Stan. Repubs nirvana. n/m bagelsforbreakfast Sep 2017 #1
Insurance Companies Would Have To Skyrocket Regular Premiums To Stay Solvent. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2017 #2
I've always seen Single Payer happening on a state by state basis Warpy Sep 2017 #4
Republican party terrorism at it's finest workinclasszero Sep 2017 #3
"Like torpedoing the Titanic..." JohnnyRingo Sep 2017 #5
 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
2. Insurance Companies Would Have To Skyrocket Regular Premiums To Stay Solvent.
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 01:56 AM
Sep 2017

The over all revenue losses with repeal and diminished block grants could not offset those losses. States would bankrupt in the end. ER services would be overwhelmed by the uninsured with medical emergencies and drop in with no coverage.

The damage to the system might be permanent. Could resolve in massive layoffs of caregivers and mass closings of rural hospitals.

Warpy

(111,141 posts)
4. I've always seen Single Payer happening on a state by state basis
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 02:08 AM
Sep 2017

and this Paul Ryan/Ayn Rand wet dream might light a fire under the asses of quite a few legislatures, my own included.

It won't happen until 2020, that's the main problem. Republican shitheads will go about their business thinking nothing has changed, the brick wall dropping on them when Dump is out.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
3. Republican party terrorism at it's finest
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 02:03 AM
Sep 2017

Trump and his fellow republicans will kill us all long before any foreign terrorist group ever gets a chance.

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