Say you hate everyone but the super rich and wish to redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars from working class people to the Koch brothers, the Trump clan and the founders of Facebook and Google. Say you have no problem with literally killing thousands of people to do so, as long as they are poor. If you are a Republican who loves this idea your dream just came true.
The “American Health Care Act” (AHCA)—does just that: squanders lives to fund the Trump clan’s tax breaks to themselves and to their rich cronies. And the irony is that evangelicals who say they follow Jesus, made it all possible.
I use the word irony because white “pro-life” evangelicals were the people who got Trump elected. They did this because he said he’d be save the babies. Turns out he is literally pro-death (for babies too) and so are the GOP ideologues who rammed this “bill” through the House. For a start they just stripped poor women of prenatal care for their unborn babies.
On Thursday the House passed, the American Health Care Act. This despite President Trump’s pledge not to cut Medicaid.
It cuts Medicaid by more than $800 billion. This “savings” will be used to offset hundreds of billions in tax cuts for the wealthy. Trump/Ryan cut special ed, prenatal care for the impoverished, coverage for the disabled and substance-abuse treatments for the working class, among other worthy purposes that countries that boast a sense of moral self “usually believe is a moral imperative to fund.
The historic destruction of Medicaid that rescinds Trump’s promise to leave it intact was just the start.
The bill guts caps on annual and lifetime out-of-pocket spending, not just for plans on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, but also for employer-sponsored plans, which would likely send more Americans with high medical bills into bankruptcy.
This is a “plan” opposed by nearly every stakeholder imaginable, including doctors, hospitals, AARP, the March of Dimes and patient-advocacy groups.
The Republicans told cancer survivors, parents of sick infants, and people desperately in need of mental-health care to quite literally get lost.
Trump and his party possess a deep disdain for sick people, the poor and other vulnerable members of American society and wish to do them harm. For example, several days ago Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said this during an interview on CNN:
My understanding is that [the new proposal] will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool. That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people — who’ve done things the right way — that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.
Brooks believes that babies and children with serious illnesses deserve their fate, or that those who have “done the things to keep their bodies healthy” and still develop chronic diseases like cancer have done things the “wrong way”. The Republican Party’s war on the American people and the common good should be condemned by all decent human beings, even by white evangelicals. Any Republicans who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act should be publicly shamed and voted out of office.
The negative impact on ordinary Americans will be incalculable…
The GOP didn’t even bother to wait for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score this new bill before voting. They wanted to rush it out to avoid just that possibility. The bill risks the integrity of even employer-based health-care plans in every state, apparently by accident!
Modern medicine saves lives. It is thus authentically pro-life.
Stripping healthcare coverage from millions to fund tax breaks for millionaires kills.
So much for the pro-life evangelical vote.
So much for love your neighbor.
Ayn Rand wins. Jesus loses.
As for the idiot in chief himself he’s mired so deep in the contradictions of the shadow land of his broken brain it beggars belief.
Having just trashed the closest we ever got to compassionate universal health care the day after claiming victory Trump did an about face, by praising a country with government-run, universal health care.
Sitting next to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at an event in New York, Trump “reflected” on what the House had just done. He took the occasion to bash Obamacare — again — as being just so, so terrible, and then he turned to Turnbull and said, “We have a failing health care — I shouldn’t say this to our great gentleman and my friend from Australia,” Trump said, as The Post’s Abby Phillip reports, “because you have better health care than we do.”
Australia’s health-care system is run by the government. It’s a single-payer, Medicare-for-all system that is available to everyone, with private insurance also available. They even call it “Medicare.”
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Posted by Frank Schaeffer on Friday, May 5, 2017
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First, the Republi/Fascist congress are MURDERERS.
Second, they are not legislators–they are fascist party ideologues trying to convince their oligarch masters of their sincerity and hard work.
Third, they are traitors.
Fourth, they are cowards play-acting another phony “mission accomplished” obscenity while dumping the whole thing on the Senate–which is complicit in this travesty. The Republi/Fascist Senate is as murderous as the House.
The Senate comments in ProPublica today comprise (as usual) an encyclopedia of doubletalk intended to blabber so much bullshit the people will be too confused to have any idea what they’re up to; and depend on the proven ignorance of their supporters to garner enthusiasm for anything they do.
This isn’t hard to rely on since all they have to do is say that Jesus would also murder irresponsible poor people; produce some celebrity “wardrobe malfunctions” or a couple of flashy (beautiful) missile attacks somewhere, or a nice scary Reichstag fire and their electorate will forget everything else and they can, as they well know from experience, do anything they like–which will be to murder sick people.
(Or, most predictable and the line of least resistance, they could blame Obama for everything, or the Clintons, or some captured Vietnam veterans–who, according to their cult leader in the White House, are also irresponsible and undeserving.)
Spot on.
Working-class White Evangelical voters…..Thanks for betraying the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ and your fellow Americans.
Below is the letter to my editor of my hometown newspaper. Readers are free to copy and paste it into their own letters to their editors or on Facebook. All one has to do is read the oldest book in the Bible —- Deuteronomy — and watch Tel Aviv U. archaeologist’s documentary, The Bible Unearthed —- to confirm that I’m telling the truth. Yahwist religions began as political movements and that is why they still are in fundamentalist/dominionist circles.
Representative Paul Ryan was correct when he declared that Trumpcare shows who the GOP is! “This is who we are!” MOST voters have been waking up and don’t really need for Ryan to confirm that the current GOP is literally psychopathic. ANY group of people who would put the wealthiest elite ahead of the most vulnerable in our society: children born with birth defects, the aged in nursing homes, children with special needs in our public schools, the mentally ill and mentally handicapped, those who through no fault of their own have pre-existing conditions, those who through no fault of their own are unemployed or underemployed, poor children, et al on Medicaid and Obamacare, have NO CONSCIENCE! That is the truth of it! Ryan and his lemming followers have just proven what psychiatrists and psychologists have been saying: “This administration is psychopathic!” Fortunately, voters will get to vote out the GOP and their psychopathic agendas but how much damage will history record this GOP invented and created and then celebrated? The magnitude of harm is breath-taking!
What is most perplexing is this. Those who have pushed for a more draconian healthcare bill are the religious right; those who claim to follow a loving God!! How can this be? A brief reading of the Old Testament —- which they claim is the revealed word of God for all people in all places and times — reveals that Yahweh was a tribal war god! In short, a psychopath that instructed his warrior followers to demonize their neighbors to justify killing them all —- including infants and children —- while showing “no mercy.” Their reward? They got to take their neighbors’ land, cisterns, harvests, homes, and the only humans they were to spare: the virgins!
The sane among us must speak up and fight back by telling the truth. Yahweh was a psychopathic war god! Silence is collusion!