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.
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!
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?
My belief is, the Republican Congress will, in fact be greeted as liberators.
"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.
Oh, here we go
https://consumerist.com/2017/04/21/financial-choi…
Not sure if this is cruel and hatefull enough.
they'll take that as a challenge
"Obamacare for me, and not for thee"
https://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-exempt…
I suggest that this information should be distributed via some sort of mass media . Pamphlets, perhaps.
That's a radical notion. But where shall we find such instruments of information dissemination?
I'll start carving it into woodblocks.
https://xkcd.com/1227/
Why, that's not hypocritical at all!
/FFS
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!
they really do want to fuck over millions of us
Don't worry about Congress, though. They're exempting themselves.
http://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-exempti…
Marrying for citizenship is one thing, but I predict marriages based on insurance…
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?
Impactful.
Pre-drill those holes with a pre-drill bit!
Yes. Will go down to the river bed and grab some clay..
What exactly do Republicans think that preexisting conditions are?
Expensive?
Refudiate
You notice she doesn't talk about assfucking nearly as much in her current gig @NYT.
She found religion, too.
Religion and assfucking make strange bedfellows, to be sure.
Thanks! I can take it to the ATM machine.
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