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still_one

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5. The republicans had eight years to present their plan and they have nothing. The ACA was based on a
Wed Jan 11, 2017, 05:57 AM
Jan 2017

republican idea, and they could have worked to make it better, but with the media's help they decided to demonize it, and rename it Obamacare.

Lamar Alexander has offered his replacement plan which is essentially just catastrophic insurance. The ACA minimum requirements for insurance will be taken away, and you can bet your bottom dollar that for comprehensive coverage the premiums will go up significantly. We will be left the way we were before the ACA. People will lose their health coverage because republicans care more about power than the people.

trump's HHS pick, Tom Price wants to dismantle Medicaid and Medicare, and is one of the advocates for complete repeal of the ACA. He belongs to a controversial anti-vexer group, outside the norm of the medical community

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/tom-price-belongs-to-a-really-scary-medical-organization.html

We are in very serious trouble, and I am not sure we will be able to stop these monsters, because that is what they are.



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