26 thoughts on “GOP Comes Up With Plan to Fuck Me Out Of Healthcare

    1. "We're dealing with patients that could finance their own reconstruction."

      -Paul Wolfowitz

      ETA actually if they simultaneously roll back restrictions on usurious payday loans, that might be exactly their plan.

    1. House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

      The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

      Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations.

      Why, that's not hypocritical at all!

      /FFS

  1. I'll be kissing my health care good bye as well if this shit passes. Here's hoping the divided Republicans (divided between the moderately evil ones and the Satan incarnate ones) ensure that the Dems can defeat it again!

  2. I have some type 1 diabetic friends who are feeling this. Also, all cancer patients, asthmatics, lupus/lyme/Crohn/celiacs. What exactly do Republicans think that preexisting conditions are?

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