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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:46 PM Jun 2017

Guess who else is against Trumpcare? Patriotic Millionaires

From PoliticsUSA: Patriotic Millionaire Says Legislators Who Vote For Trumpcare Are Mercenary Murderers:

"Gutting coverage, as this bill does, will lead to deaths due to lack of coverage, and the legislators who vote this in are mercenary murderers, contracted and paid for by the insurance companies and ultra rich," said Patriotic Millionaire Blaine Garst.

The Patriotic Millionaires were not impressed, following the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) which revealed that a stunning 22 million more people would be without healthcare.

“America needs healthy workers, and to be healthy, they need health care for themselves and their families. Gutting coverage, as this bill does, will lead to deaths due to lack of coverage, and the legislators who vote this in are mercenary murderers, contracted and paid for by the insurance companies and ultra rich,” said Patriotic Millionaire Blaine Garst.
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Patriotic Millionaire Joel Kanter said he could not imagine a more heartless way of governing and called out Republicans for selling this tax cut and repeal of rights and benefits as “health care”, “Leaving aside that passage of this bill might be the first time in American History that a significant ‘right’ and ‘benefit’ conveyed to the American People was then revoked, and leaving aside that doing so violates President Trump’s own campaign pledge to ‘provide affordable health insurance to all Americans’, the real travesty of this legislation is that it will leave millions and millions of needy Americans without coverage so that Republicans can pay for a tax cut that will benefit the most wealthy Americans who need it least.”

“I cannot imagine a more heartless way of governing, which is only made worse by the conscious attempt to obfuscate what is really being done and try to sell this to the American people as health care reform,” Joel Kanter added.

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Guess who else is against Trumpcare? Patriotic Millionaires (Original Post) LongTomH Jun 2017 OP
and nothing in either bill solves the true cost problems Rene Jun 2017 #1
Here is a message that I will always remember. Wellstone ruled Jun 2017 #2

Rene

(1,183 posts)
1. and nothing in either bill solves the true cost problems
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:40 PM
Jun 2017

neither version of new health care bill solves the high insurance/medical procedure/expensive drugs problem.

Need to get a handle on those.......and then ensure everyone.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Here is a message that I will always remember.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:03 PM
Jun 2017

While a member of a Local Union Contract Negotiation Committee,this statement coming from the High Powered Lawyers representing the Employer Group we were negotiating with,none of our Members want to live in a society of Poor People. We,the Employers Group need people with disposable income to keep us in Business,and that is why we are here today.

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