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Proud Liberal Dem

(24,426 posts)
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 05:32 PM Jun 2017

What is the point (mostly rhetorical) of this AHCA exercise?

They spent 7 years railing against ACA and the best they could come up with was a mishmash of half-baked ideas and, basically, a "re-wiring" of the ACA that plunges our healthcare system pretty much back into the same abyss that ACA was helping people get out of and makes our system stingier and meaner to poor and working-class individuals and is actually going to going to create real victims out of this horrific government policy proposal (as opposed to the phony "Obamacare victims" touted by Trump/GOP). They don't have the slightest humanity just to accept the ACA as it has been for the last 7 years and be glad that more people are being responsible for their health and paying into our "free market" health care system and being better taken care of?

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What is the point (mostly rhetorical) of this AHCA exercise? (Original Post) Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2017 OP
If you're going to be a Republican, you've REALLY got to hate Obama gratuitous Jun 2017 #1
The point is the near $100B/yr. tax cut exboyfil Jun 2017 #2

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)
2. The point is the near $100B/yr. tax cut
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 05:39 PM
Jun 2017

They will get that come hell or high water.

A $100B/yr. taken out of the healthcare system, 20+ M people not covered by healthcare, and a loss of one million jobs.

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