Might As Well Start Shooting Sick People If Pre Existing Conditions Denial Restored.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Trump and the GOP are determined to create a hell on earth in the US. Ending health care for sick people is pretty much pre meditated murder. Many people who need life saving care will be SOL.

[beachbum bob]

1. If you have no money, you don't deserve to live...been GOP doctrine

For a long time

[Demsrule86]

2. I think this cost them the house and maybe even the Senate.

[Matthew28]

3. If there was a god in heaven

it should

[Demsrule86]

6. Yes...the GOP and Trump are monsters.

[Demsrule86]

15. Yes...The GOP have reneged on their deal...and Trump too of course. They are liars. There is no

reason for the Dems to make deals when the GOP liars in the White House and the Congress won't keep them. And to target children for death in order send more taxpayer money to the rich which includes most if not all Republicans in the Senate is evil.

[beachbum bob]

14. what is amazing, the number of issues democrats can campaign on which can ignore the red meat issues

like abortion and gun control altogether. This is almost divine intervention of the meltdown of republicans and trump in dishing up issue after issue that affects real working american familes..

EVERY democratic campaign can focus on TRUST....how can you trust republicans with healthcare? How can you trust republicans with tax policies? How can you trust republicans with safeguarding taxpayer's money? How can you trust republicans with preventing corruption? How can you trust republicans to protect our national parks? How can you trust republicans to find solutions to student loan crisis? How do you trust republicans on economy? On trade?

Each one can be turned into a simple 30 second TV add, a 30 second radio ad....We can completely overrun every election with this tactic.

So many other issues that don't near the red meat issues that republicans want to use.

[Demsrule86]

16. Absolutely and we should all take to twitter and other forms of social media and write editorials.

You go to red states and find the news is not the real news. I discovered that when I live in Georgia. My sis calls me up and asks about what is going on (she still lives there) and watches MSNBC at night.

[Ms. Toad]

4. We have money

We were blessed with simple tastes, parents who taught us early how to save, good educations, and a fair amount of luck so that any out of work times were relatively brief.

That won't save us. All the money we have saved over 40-45 years will vanish in a few short years if insurance companies are again allowed to bar people with pre-existing conditions.

I have been saying my daughter had $60-100,000 in billed expenses each and every year. Through insurance miscommunication with her care providers, I have learned that it is over to $200,000. (A single treatment - which is reqiured every 8 weeks is $20,000 for administration and $8,000 for medicine.) On top of that, she has extensive cancer screening (including a costly MRI every year, a colonoscopy, and less costly additional screening, and a second relatively costly medication)).

She currently has $40,000 in outstanding bills (because the second treatment occurred before the miscommunication was discovered).

Her own income is under $20,000 (less than the cost of one treatment). At her burn rate, our savings - and the inheritance we anticipate from my parents, will vanish in less than a decade.

Killing people with pre-existing conditions has nothing to do with them having access to money.

[Hoyt]

5. That and subsidies were best aspect of ACA. White wingers believe each person should provide/pay for

their own healthcare, rather than collectively pooling the risk, until they get sick.

I don’t know how we overcome white wing ignorance, or why people the ACA or a Public Option would help, don’t vote.

[Shrike47]

7. They claim to be pro life, but they clearly are not. This is vile.

[Hortensis]

8. :) WE LIKE THIS! 150 days to midterms, guys.

Seriously, the Repubs are frantic to hold onto the senate so the next SCOTUS appointment would almost certainly be theirs. And with another Gorsuch on the court they might be able to rule all these big programs unconstitutional. Or just something even more crippling than the current effort to get mandatory coverages declared unconstitutional, such as how to fund them.

We must get control of congress on November 6, and Trump is helping us.

[Snotcicles]

9. That would be the humane thing to do. I was just thinking the same thing.

It is going to be horrific for low income retried people.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I think people who have life saving treatment denied should start taking out a few

republicans with them. Sorry, but they only way they will ever change is if their hateful policies come back to affect them personally.

[ProudLib72]

13. +1

Except I'm not sorry.

[Westcoast52]

11. We've Heard The Same Thing Before

. .when GOPers said Obamacare would have death panels. If hospitals/providers are left holding the bag because insurers slide out from under people with pre-existing, the whole system will die off locally, then regionally, then nationally. Providers can't survive either because the whole health system is an irrational exercise in survival of the financially fittest.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. I keep on wanting to write a very dark story in which

at some point in the future health care is "reformed" so that the cheapest insurance pays for a person to be taken out to the north 40 and shot. It will pay for the bullet.

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Meanwhile health insurance CEOs are paid 10s of thousands of$$$

a day in salaries for denying health care coverage.