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Pierce:Our Nation Is Not Healthy
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53694/republican-healthcare-plan/...And here is something else that it is not. It is not TrumpCare. It is RepubliCare. The bill that dropped like a dead fish in a sanctuary late Monday evening is the culmination of nearly 25 years of Republican policy thinking since Bill Clinton put health care reform at the top of the agenda in the 1992 campaign. All of the greatest hits are in there, and they're all just as cruel and stupid and unworkable as they ever were. This is why it's RepubliCare:
.Health Savings Accounts! Start saving when you're three and if you spend the rest of your life living atop a flagpole, you might be able to afford half-a-round of chemo when you're 60.
.Health Insurance Across State Lines! Let's apply the always consumer-friendly business model of the credit card industry to something people literally need to stay alive.
.Block Grants! Also known as the Scott Walker Cronies Supplemental Income Act of 2017....
Consider also that the only viable political opposition to this bill within the Republican Party does not come from frightened senators, or from the disappointed alleged wonks of the conservative bright-boy set. It comes from the Heritage Foundation, and the Club For Growth, and the House Freedom Caucus, and from the konztitooshunal skolars in the Senate, including Mike Lee of Utah, Tailgunner Ted Cruz of Texas, and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
In other words, the only substantial enemies of any political power whatsoever that this bill has within the party that's proposing it comes from people who think it's…too…damn…generous. Think about that for a moment. Think about what it must be like to get up in the morning and think that this concocted dog's breakfast gives too much of a helping hand to your fellow citizens. How does your heart not turn black and leap out of your chest at the very thought of that? How do all your mirrors not crack? How does your blood not run even colder than it usually does?
.Health Savings Accounts! Start saving when you're three and if you spend the rest of your life living atop a flagpole, you might be able to afford half-a-round of chemo when you're 60.
.Health Insurance Across State Lines! Let's apply the always consumer-friendly business model of the credit card industry to something people literally need to stay alive.
.Block Grants! Also known as the Scott Walker Cronies Supplemental Income Act of 2017....
Consider also that the only viable political opposition to this bill within the Republican Party does not come from frightened senators, or from the disappointed alleged wonks of the conservative bright-boy set. It comes from the Heritage Foundation, and the Club For Growth, and the House Freedom Caucus, and from the konztitooshunal skolars in the Senate, including Mike Lee of Utah, Tailgunner Ted Cruz of Texas, and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
In other words, the only substantial enemies of any political power whatsoever that this bill has within the party that's proposing it comes from people who think it's…too…damn…generous. Think about that for a moment. Think about what it must be like to get up in the morning and think that this concocted dog's breakfast gives too much of a helping hand to your fellow citizens. How does your heart not turn black and leap out of your chest at the very thought of that? How do all your mirrors not crack? How does your blood not run even colder than it usually does?