Paul Ryan's American carnage

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The American Health Care Act is an absolute moral abomination.

House Republicans voted Thursday to pass this monstrosity by the narrowest of margins, 217-213. Not a single Democrat voted for it, and 20 Republicans broke with Speaker Paul Ryan and voted against the bill. It now goes to the Senate, which will also have to pass it (no small feat!) before it can be sent to President Trump to be signed into law.

In the meantime, Republicans are celebrating with a bunch of Bud Light.

But let's not get lost in the hypocrisy or the politics. The substance of this bill is awful, and demands examination.

As Sarah Kliff explains, this bill is quite similar to the previous one that failed to pass the House — only the new version is much, much worse. It would get rid of the individual mandate and replace it with a more punishing rule that wouldn't work as well, phase out the Medicaid expansion in ObamaCare, and slash the rest of Medicaid by putting it through a welfare-reform style meat grinder (total cuts: $880 billion over 10 years). ObamaCare subsidies would be calculated based on age rather than income, leading some elderly people to have tremendously increased premiums.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/paul-ryans-american-carnage/ar-BBAKw5a?li=BBnb7Kz

[BigmanPigman]

1. I just called Blue Shield of CA

and broke out into tears. She said she's been getting calls like mine for 24 hours!