This is a death sentence for me: Patients react in horror to GOPs late-night Obamacare repeal

[Miles Archer]

‘This is a death sentence for me’: Patients react in horror to GOP’s late-night Obamacare repeal

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/this-is-a-death-sentence-for-me-patients-react-in-horror-to-gops-late-night-obamacare-repeal/

Republicans in the Senate took a major step toward repealing the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday night, while simultaneously voting down proposed amendments to make sure people with preexisting conditions could still get coverage.

On Thursday morning, many people who can only get health care thanks to the ACA took to Twitter to express their horror that the GOP is going full speed ahead with gutting the healthcare legislation without having anything close to an alternative that would keep them covered.

“As a breast cancer survivor, this is a death sentence for me,” one woman tweeted at Rep. Keith Ellison (D -MN) on Thursday.

And she wasn’t alone, as many people who benefit from the ACA used the hashtag #SaveTheACA to tell the world about how they will literally die if they can’t get access to health care once the ACA is gone.

[spanone]

1. there will be no replacement. you don't replace something you spent 6 yrs trying to destroy

[Bettie]

3. Well, to be fair

they consider "Die quickly!" to be a replacement.

Honestly, I also suspect many of them consider it entertainment as well.

[atreides1]

2. I have no sympathy for Republican voters

I wish for all those who voted for Trump and the Republicans, to get what they deserve, and to get it quick...because even they should not have to suffer!!!

[MFM008]

6. I just hope his supporters die first

Before my mom who will die without it.

[bearssoapbox]

4. Murdering bastards!!!

And they'll sit around in a circlejerk and congratulate themselves while Americans are dying because of their actions.

[Rex]

5. If the general public does not know the GOP is anti-humanity by now

then it is all on them. We know it.

BUT hey at least that darn Obamacare was repealed!

[nolabear]

7. Our adult son has a non-life threatening pre-existing that could break us all.

A couple times a year he spends a couple of days in hospital. It's incredibly expensive. He's had it all his life and insurance has saved us. Now, we're not poor. But he is, and can;t be on our insurance any more. We won't let his life be destroyed by this but what do you do? He's our child.

SO many people are going to die and so many more are going to go broke.

[Skittles]

8. this makes me so angry

republicans, they just don't care - their hate and racism TRUMPS all

[nolabear]

10. It's true. They want people to fail. It's mind-boggling.

I used to have faith in people. Now I'm cautious until I know. Incredible.

[Miles Archer]

12. And "pre-existing" is MERCILESSLY defined

It's like "have you ever blown your nose," and if you answer "yes," they rule out anything in the upper respiratory system.

People WILL die, there's no way around it. It's all part of Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand-ian vision that the suffering are best left to suffer.

The good news, though, is that the money will be channeled to the 400 wealthiest families in America.

I'm in a state of disbelief that people are just beginning to react to this. We knew it all during the primaries. We knew what Paul Ryan would go after, immediately, if the Republicans gained control, simply because of the number of times he's gone after it unsuccessfully in the past.

Ryan's a coward who calls 6 security guards and locks his doors when Planned Parenthood shows up with petitions.

He's the Grim Reaper, and the scary part is that he knows it.

[central scrutinizer]

9. There's your death panel

The Klondike Kardashian called it

[souledout2JC]

11. I just got home from the office of a specialist I need to see monthly.

We were discussing how soon my next appointment would be, either one month or two. I said "Doc even one month is a long time and Trump could nuke all of us by then or destroy all of our retirement or sell the country to Russia." He turned and looked hard at me and said "you are absolutely right about that! That man is so mentally sick and it is so obvious to any M.D. or anyone with any mental health training at all." He kept on talking as if he were desperate to say this stuff to anyone who would listen. "That man is so obviously a dangerous narcissistic personality who has life long sexual issues and was most certainly abused by some woman in his childhood and he intends to take it out on every woman, any woman, for the rest of his life, even if it means killing other people to do it."

He told me he has a brother and sister-in-law who think Tweety Bird is going to save the who world. (Like in the anti-Christ???)

That was a lot more information than I expected but he was literally spilling it out. WOW. I think I understand the golden showers and the pussy grabbing now. I still don't get the insurance crap unless it is women he wants to hurt with this and men are in the way. Who knows?

[HipChick]

13. WOW!...my dr literally said the same thing to me yestersday..