Republicans being dicks -- again -- still

[dalton99a]

1. Yep. Krugman is a must read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/opinion/health-care-graham-cassidy.html
Complacency Could Kill Health Care
Paul Krugman SEPT. 18, 2017

Graham-Cassidy is the opposite of moderate. It contains, in exaggerated and almost caricature form, all the elements that made previous Republican proposals so cruel and destructive. It would eliminate the individual mandate, undermine if not effectively eliminate protection for people with pre-existing conditions, and slash funding for subsidies and Medicaid. There are a few additional twists, but they’re all bad — notably, a funding formula that would penalize states that are actually successful in reducing the number of uninsured.

Yet there is a real chance that Graham-Cassidy, which is similar to but even worse than previous Republican proposals, will nonetheless become law, because not enough people are taking it seriously.