So are Republicans really going to fuck us on healthcare?

[Cyrano]

Here we are again. About to get screwed by a new vote designed by Republican monsters.

It's called Graham-Cassidy: Two men ready to fuck up our health care and then kill us.

Why do they keep keep trying to destroy health care for most Americans?

Here's my answer. Because they're dicks. They really don't care if we live of die.

This is the Republican Party.

This is what many people vote for.

And their ignorant votes for death condemn us all.

We can't educate these people. We can't wake them up. We can't change their world view.

If this horrible "healthcare" bill goes through, many of us are fucked. Prepare for the worst.

I often wonder if Republicans (and most of their voters) evolved from the same evolutionary species as the rest of us.

[Autumn]

1. Republicans will fuck us on anything they can. They have already said if they can't repeal the ACA

they will let it collapse and die on it's own, and that they have a lot of ways to do that just that. As long as they have control we are all fucked.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I am so angry these days a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of Xanax

wouldn't be enough to calm me down for more than 30 seconds. I am calling 13 senators a day until Oct. 1st. I call on a rotating basis (ALL of the GOP senators).

[TeamPooka]

3. If they can fuck over us, they will.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Sure, if they can. That's what they do.

The underlying philosophy of the GOP is that everything is a commodity that can be bought and sold on the so-called "free market." Free market economics is like a religion to them; they believe in it, even in the absence of proof, just as devoutly as Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. Of course, there are inconvenient facts:

First, there is no such thing as a truly free market. Rules created by government, with the enthusiastic support of the GOP in many cases, control the market. Without those rules there could be no manageable or profitable commercial transactions. The court system exists in no small part to protect business interests; a huge percentage of cases filed in the federal courts involve disputes between businesses. Without courts applying established rules governing commerce, businesses could not operate because they could not foresee or control risks.

Second, affordable health insurance purchased from private insurers simply can't be provided to everyone in a free market. It doesn't work. Insurance works only if there is a large enough pool of people who are paying premiums into the pool to cover the claims made by a smaller percentage of insured people. That's why the ACA had the mandated coverage the GOP hates so much. But insurance companies don't want to sell insurance to people who are likely to get sick unless there is also a sufficient number of healthy people who are also paying premiums, to cover the payouts to the sick people. In a free market some people will inevitably end up either having to pay huge premiums or be unable to buy coverage at any price. The result, of course, is that the people who need health care the most won't be able to get it. This is not rocket science, but the GOP is so wedded to their free-market "religion" that they keep coming up with increasingly bizarre and impossible schemes by which they try to torture health insurance into a free-market framework. It simply will. not. work. Ever. That's why every other country does it differently.

[Cyrano]

9. Well said, V O. And absolutely true.

[LexVegas]

5. Medicare for all is going to pass, so no worries. nt

[Dave Starsky]

8. You missed the /s tag.

How about we have that locked in first? Kind of like how we have to go in and pay for our gas before we pump it?

[Dave Starsky]

6. They will eventually, regardless.

I wish they'd do it quickly so we can at least ramp up the Payback Machine for November 2018.

[Turbineguy]

7. They are going to fuck us

on everything.

It's what they do.