Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say (Fearful Trump voters)

[workinclasszero]

Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say
By ABBY GOODNOUGH and REED ABELSONMARCH 7, 2017

Martha Brawley of Monroe, N.C., said she voted for President Trump in the hope he could make insurance more affordable. But on Tuesday, Ms. Brawley, 55, was feeling increasingly nervous based on what she had heard about the new plan from television news reports. She pays about $260 per month for a Blue Cross plan and receives a subsidy of $724 per month to cover the rest of her premium. Under the House plan, she would receive $3,500 a year in tax credits — $5,188 less than she gets under the Affordable Care Act.

“I’m scared, I’ll tell you that right now, to think about not having insurance at my age,” said Ms. Brawley, who underwent a liver biopsy on Monday after her doctor found that she has an autoimmune liver disease. “If I didn’t have insurance, these doctors wouldn’t see me.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/health/risk-of-losing-health-insurance-in-republican-plan.html

[SharonAnn]

1. It's hard to know what to say. With the terrific subsidies she was getting, she wanted more?

And she thought Trump would give it to her? He couldn't care less about people like her.

[workinclasszero]

4. And she was willing to look the other way on Trump's lies, racism and hate

because she thought the con man was gonna give her a good deal.

Piss on her.

Her stupidity and hateful attitude towards humanity will not only ruin her life but mine and my family as well.

[atreides1]

30. I have to agree with you!

Her own greed and stupidity, put her in this spot, but it also put other people in a jam...and she didn't give two shits about them!

[HAB911]

62. Piss on her.

[ProudLib72]

2. Maybe, just maybe

she will turn off Faux News and stop believing the repukes. Either that or she'll just die. Great way to purge the people who don't support Li'l Donnie.

[Kimchijeon]

19. true enough they have no use for poor/disabled/working class

[KittyWampus]

3. idiots. IDIOTS.

[workinclasszero]

5. When I read these stories about people living paycheck to paycheck

actually thinking a rich POS, draft dodging, lying sack of shit, racist, pussy grabbing REPUBLICAN was going to help them out....it just blows my mind!

How do these people live being that ridiculously stupid????

[Dustlawyer]

15. Because the propaganda they listen to tells them that the "others" are getting

more and that is why she is getting less.

We have the Plutocrats who own the media and the politicians who are able to manipulate the ignorant into serving the ends of the Plutocrats. We can be mad at idiots like this woman but it doesn't get us anywhere!

We need to all join together to get the money out of our politics. It needs to be the goal of every Progressive to cut off the ability of corporations and the extremely wealthy to buy our politicians. That means taking back control of both houses of Congress, the WH, and the state houses. Donald Trump may give us the opportunity to do just that if we all focus together on the root cause of most of our problems.

When we do take back control wee need to bust up the media and banking oligarchies and require the truth in the news! No more, "It's Entertainment" bull sh*t. We must eliminate their propaganda so they cannot use the ignorant against us!

[LenaBaby61]

40. When I read these stories about people living paycheck to paycheck.

Come on now, you're not being fair here. tRumputin cares for the lady in NC.

Because NOTHING says "I'm for the middle-class, the working poor, single Moms and for making SURE that everyone has health quality health care/insurance" like this picture below dripping with nothing BUT love & compassion:

[workinclasszero]

41. IKR?

It way to easy to be a con man in America. SMH

[HAB911]

63. Watch ONLY Faux News

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I just wish

that only those who voted for Trump would be subject to his new health care.

And Ms Brawley deserves what she gets. She clearly wasn't paying any attention to anything to have voted for Trump. With all due respect, if she dies in the street that's what she voted for.

I am so freaking tired of people like her saying "Oh, gosh! I had NO idea!!" Well, fucking pay attention when you vote.

[KingBob]

14. Ditto

Golly gee! I had no idea! Damn right. She is clueless. Bet you a dollar to a day old doughnut that not only did she not vote, she isn't even registered to vote.

[tblue37]

29. She voted for Trump. She said so. nt

[Blue_true]

45. She heard the racist, anti female, anti LGBTQ, anti Immigrant, anti Muslim,

anti Education dog whistles and decided none of it applied to her, so she got all registered up and voted for Trump. She said screw everyone else, now she could well die because of her views. She could be looking at a liver transplant, not an inexpensive procedure.

[Charles Bukowski]

7. What persuaded you that Trump would offer a better deal?

That one time he spewed incoherent gibberish related to healthcare, or that other time he spewed incoherent gibberish related to healthcare?

You voted for bigotry and hate, ma'am, and now you're getting it. Make America White Again!

Good healthcare? That wasn't part of the deal.

[Kimchijeon]

20. I know right? There was never any promise, ever, from Dumpster.

Maybe like you said, he probably spewed some incoherent gibberish related to healthcare a couple times. That's the extent of it.

And now we all get to suffer the consequences.

[standingtall]

8. Geez are these people friggin stupid?

She said she couldn't afford insurance before the ACA,but she can barely afford it now,but she thought Trump would make it better? Seriously did these people actually listen to anything Trump said about this besides sound bites of him saying he would cover everybody. Pretty sure he was promoting health saving accounts,buying insurance across state lines. Getting rid of mandates etc. Anyone with half a brain could of told you you cannot do what he was proposing and cover everybody or make it better.

[Still In Wisconsin]

13. Yes. n/t

[workinclasszero]

25. They are to stupid to realize that when the orange republican con man said

everybody would be covered, cheaper than "Obamacare" it would require a massive govt program to benefit the public.

You know, the very thing the republicans hate to do! How many times did the republicans in Congress try to gut the ACA when Obama was prez? More than once that's for sure and yet these stupid racist rubes actually thought Trump, the leader of the republican party, was going to help them out!

[not fooled]

50. It was even worse

He spewed platitudes about how he would have a great plan that would cover everyone for less. No specifics. You had to be extremely stupid to fall for it. Oh wait, his voters ARE...

Throw in years of demonizing and lying about the ACA on the part of Faux and the 'pukes and this is what you get.

I just hope dumpcare is in fact DOA in Congress.

[davsand]

9. They screwed us all when they voted for that orange anus.

I wish I could muster even a tiny shred of sympathy for her, but I'm just not that good of a person. F**k her and every other voter that voted for him. We'll all die together, but you beeter know I intend to outlive you and I may even manage to laugh while you all die.

Buyer's remorse is kinda painful ain't it...

[liquid diamond]

16. Brutal.

And I agree 100% 😃

[Firebrand Gary]

10. No sympathy.

She's the recipient of her own karma.

[workinclasszero]

28. That's exactly right

She was willing to see the "others" oppressed, discriminated against, victimized by hate crimes etc because Adolf Trump promised her better health care.

She deserves the shit sandwich the damn republicans are going to serve her.

[Doreen]

11. Lets think about this.

She could not afford insurance when the Repukes were in then a Democrat comes in and she can afford insurance. Now, what in the hell made her think another Repuke would give her insurance? She voted to not have insurance.

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. But, e-mails!!!! n/t

[Doreen]

24. Oh yeah, those, nasty woman.

[tcbrola]

17. She should take Rep. Jason Chaffetz's advice...

and sell her iPhone.

[reflection]

18. Straight dumbass.

You shot yourself, and the rest of us, in the foot. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and piss off.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Don't be scared Mrs Brawley. The Donald will fix it for you.

Don't be scared Mrs Brawley.

The Donald will fix it for you.

He said it would.

That's what you wanted; Trumpcare.

[More_Cowbell]

22. Not just Trump, but the whole GOP said they wanted to gut it

I have no sympathy. I feel sorry for the people who paid attention, didn't vote GOP and are getting screwed.

I also feel like if this ACA repeal doesn't happen quickly (if the GOP succeeds in making most of the harm visible AFTER the 2018 election) these uninformed voters will continue to elect Republicans.

[Blue_true]

46. One concern that I have also.

Republican leadership know that ACA repeal and replacement will hurt their voters the most and are trying to delay until after 2020 elections, when Democrats may have to face the shitstorm republicans caused. Their dumb voters will stay with them in 2018 and 2020 unless they get punched up side the head really, really hard. Brilliant and vilely evil doing the delay.

[Solly Mack]

23. She didn't just vote her needed lifeline away. Her vote, and the others, took away

the needed lifeline of people who didn't vote for Trump.

She hurt herself and a whole lot of other people. I want for her to understand that.

I do feel bad that ignorance can kill. I do feel bad that people vote against their own interests. I find it mind-boggling that anyone thought a billionaire real estate developer would know anything about the lives of regular Americans. With everything Trump said on the campaign trail, they knew this would happen. He told them.

For years the GOP has done little else besides repeatedly voting to repeal the ACA. Weren't they paying attention? People are now supposed to feel sorry for them because they couldn't stop hating long enough to realize that Obamacare and the ACA were the exact same thing?

No one should have to die from lack of healthcare, not even those I disagree with (and it goes well beyond mere disagreement) - but mostly I feel bad for the people that they have hurt with their ignorance, with their hate, and with their vote.

What I feel for the Trump voter is mainly anger. Trump lied to them. The GOP lied to them. They lied to themselves. But in the end, they will find a way to blame Democrats and Liberals, immigrants, African-Americans, LGBT, and women. They'll blame the "liberal media", but never once will they blame themselves.


Martha Brawley put her hope in a man who said he would repeal Obamacare. She put her hope in a political party that made it plain as day they would repeal Obamacare. She betted her life on it.

Worse, she betted the lives of others on it.

[WinkyDink]

26. This is one small part of her voting picture. Did she also cry, "Lock her up!"? Is she anti-choice?

FEH to her and her kind.

Fifty-five is old enough to know what the two Parties are about.

[TNLib]

27. I feel bad for these people

But at the same time pissed they threw us under the bus because of their own hatred and ignorance.

[Ohioblue22]

31. If I didnt have insurance, these doctors wouldnt see me.

this is what you voted for. you thought trump would go after "those" people and bullsht on your more affordable insurance you were paying only 260 a month..

well you get what you vote for or youre stuck with what you didnt vote for

how often did she yell lock her up or call our potus a n'er. how often did yell maga in some "libtard's " face. lady i think the term youre looking for is screwed unless the dems save your ass or maybe it's maga. either way youre screwed

[Blue_true]

47. Sort a kick in the face, isn't it? That Brawley woman likely despise Democrats.

Yet, Democrats are the only ones that can save what could be her life, given her liver issues.

[Ohioblue22]

52. it's what makes me want to tear my hair out

[JenniferJuniper]

32. I want to have sympathy but

I do not have an infinite reserve these days and and non-Trump supporters take priority.

[meadowlark5]

33. All of these republicans are *finally* going to get what they've been voting for all of their lives

Up until now, there have been Dem presidents, dem controlled senates since the early 2000s. Those dems have buffered the republican voters from the real republican agenda. Now there is no buffer, there is no one to stop the republican agenda freight train bearing down on all of us.

They have safely voted for republicans for many years because someone (dems) protected them from themselves. Now they are finally going to get to see what they've been voting for all of these years.

I just feel sorry for all of the voters who knew better who will suffer because of so many voters stupidity and gullibility.

[workinclasszero]

34. Yes the assholes are finally going to see how much the republicans love them!

I just wish we didn't have to pay the price along with these hateful republican voters.

[LenaBaby61]

42. All of these republicans are *finally* going to get what they've been voting for all of their lives

"I just feel sorry for all of the voters who knew better who will suffer because of so many voters stupidity and gullibility."

I so agree with you. Those stuck in red states who knew what time is WAS and who didn't vote for tRumputin will be suffering.

In fact, nothing but love & compassion for ALL of us in Red & Blue states which tRumputin wants to "punish" for various reasons.

[Blue_true]

48. Given splits among republican politicians, I am not so unsure that Democrats

won't end up saving those republican voting assholes once again, only to be bitten as a reward.

[raccoon]

65. Yep, trump voters: you asked for it, you got it.

Great post.

[Johonny]

35. And she will vote for Trump again in 2020

because you can't fix stupid

[workinclasszero]

36. If she doesn't die in a ditch somewhere with a curable disease, penniless with her Trumpcare

voucher clutched in her dying hands first.

[AgadorSparticus]

37. I am at a point where I just don't feel sorry for these assholes anymore.

Because what she did not only affected herself but millions of other people too.

SHE did this. SHE has blood on her hands too. Millions will suffer greatly because of her and people like her. Yeaa, No sympathy.

There is only so much ignorance 1 person can claim.

You know who I feel sorry for? People that voted against this pathological liar in chief. They will be suffering. My heart breaks for them.

[progree]

38. Yeah but she can save up with a Health Savings Account :) :) :)

[sarcasmo]

39. USA, USA, we're #19, we're #19.

[March 4th]

43. I have ZERO pity for Trump Voters

This is what they get for being stupid.

[TheOther95Percent]

44. My premium for employer-provided healthcare is more than $260 per month.

My husband's plan didn't cover my specialist so I get my health insurance through my employer. My pre-tax contribution is $300 per month. I think that's a great deal. My medical costs last year ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. All covered.

[Blue_true]

49. So far, I have been lucky. My worst year may have cost $1000.

So far, I have been an Insurer's wet dream, not young anymore, but healthy with no inherited disease and not one broken bone.

[TheOther95Percent]

67. You are lucky.

Until last year, I hadn't been in a hospital for nearly 50 years. Healthy as a horse until I wasn't.

[MontanaMama]

51. Unfortunatley this has to get VERY painful

for tens of millions of us before the deplorables will understand what they've done to themselves and to our country. Many will never get it before they die for lack of quality care. Many of us who do understand will die too.

[DFW]

53. I guess we are supposed to feel pity for these people

But I have trouble feeling pity for people whose willful, proud ignorance put the USA in this awful mess we're in.

Many will have to die slow deaths before they figure out that the shoe drop to "America First" was "Americans Last."

My answer to Martha Brawley and her kind is, "You did this to yourself. You did this to me. You did this to our country, and in all likelihood, you would do it again, given the chance. Do your doctors have to throw you out into the street before you would consider changing your mind?"

[Akamai]

54. I blame the frigging media for this debacle, for not calling out Trump and the Republicans loudly

and repeatedly. They were pretty damned silent on Trump's lies, used "both sides do it" logic, used Republican swamp-fever logic to castigate Hillary, etc.

And if the media don't correct themselves, it will happen again and again.

[tallahasseedem]

55. Sorry, but I have NO sympathy for these fools...

the writing was on the wall with Trump. He has done everything he said he would.

[Jim Beard]

56. There was another one on CNN's Erin Burnet a few minutes ago about a

Republican vote r who voted for Trump but even ran for public office and lost but got cancer and her ass was saved.

[The Sand Reckoner]

57. "Fearful Trump voters" can go fuck themselves

They are getting exactly what they wanted and exactly what was promised them.

No more sympathy for stupid and bigoted.

[Cadfael]

58. If you read to the very end, the kicker is:

This is the very first time she voted!

[yardwork]

61. I saw that. The most interesting sentence in the article:

She and her husband voted for Mr. Trump — the first time she had voted in her life — she said, because “I thought he would make it better.”

[cstanleytech]

59. I feel no sympathy for Martha or those like her if this bites them in the ass, the ones that get my

sympathy are the ones that had common sense and voted for Hillary.

[Cha]

60. As trump sits on his toilet ready to tweet some more Fake news.

[Mr. Ected]

64. This is what happens when ignorance collides with civic duty

You cast votes that end up hurting you, and you only have yourself to blame.

Or for those who voted for HRC, you only have the ignorant to blame.

Damn do we have a lot of ignorant people in this country.

[Vinca]

66. I don't feel sorry for this lady, but I do feel sorry for the innocent people who will suffer and

die because of her ignorant vote.

[Dopers_Greed]

68. Don't feel sorry at all for them

They voted for this.

They shat the bed, now they have to lay in it.