Even though these
'Clowns' are losing in every poll,
they are still trying to squeezing every
penny that they can
from the poor and middle class to 'sell to the rich'!
House Republicans,
led by Speaker Paul Ryan,
have yet another
plan to “repeal and replace” Obamacare.
As of February of
this year,
they had already
held at
least 62 votes to get rid of the Affordable Care Act
in one way or
another
all of which failed.
As November
approaches, this appears to be Ryan’s last-ditch attempt
to make it look as
though the GOP has an actual agenda
and
not just a list of things they would
like to get rid of.
The Republicans’
plan includes many of their perennial favorite ideas,
“such as allowing
consumers to
buy health insurance across state lines,
expanding health
savings accounts,
reforming medical
liability rules
and giving block
grants to states
to run Medicaid programs for the poor.”
But the real sucker
punch comes in their plan
to raise the
Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67,
a move that
potentially represents
tens of thousands of dollars of additional healthcare
spending
for everyday
Americans just reaching retirement age.
Oh,
and as always,
they
threw in tort reform for good measure,
to make sure that
Americans hurt by medical malpractice
cannot obtain appropriate justice through
the courts.
Republican efforts
to dump President Obama’s signature achievement
have gotten more complicated,
however, now that
the healthcare law has been in place for six years
and its effects are being
broadly felt
by the American health care system.
This might explain
why they’ve maintained some of the most popular parts of the act,
including coverage
for pre-existing conditions
and
letting younger people stay on their parents’
plans until age 26.
For starters,
the uninsured rate
has plummeted,
meaning that a full repeal of the ACA would be tantamount
to
taking coverage away from millions of Americans
But that’s not all.
According to a
report from the Urban Institute
and
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
“The United States
is spending trillions — yes, trillions —
less on health care than government
forecasters expected when
Obamacare passed in 2010.”
If uninsured rates
were falling
and
costs were rising,
that chart wouldn’t be very compelling,
especially for Republicans.
Fortunately for
Obamacare,
updated cost projections show that we’re spending about
$2.6
trillion less on healthcare than expected.
So goahead,
vote for your
"CLOWNS!"