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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Is Determined To Do Irreversible Damage To The Country. Somehow We Must Stop Them.
Revival of the ACA repeal that will destroy health care permanently is criminal and eugenic. The GOP will go after Social Security and Medicare if they succeed with ACA repeal and Medicaid demolishment. We can see by the fire in their eyes they want to damage like death.
They have become the vicious enemy like ISIS. Once they stack all the courts the damage will be generational and for decades.
still_one
(92,317 posts)"Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus looked ready to accept a proposal from the Trump administration that would allow states to opt out of key requirements in the Affordable Care Act ― namely, the essential health benefits and community rating provisions. The latter, in particular, ensures that sick people are not charged more than the healthy ― which is a key component of the Obamacare guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions that Republicans promised to retain.
But GOP leadership spent a good part of Tuesday hearing from moderates who said they could not accept such changes. While those rank-and-file moderates were publicly telling reporters theyd be willing to look at the legislative text of the proposal, some of them told The Huffington Post privately that the community rating change would be a non-starter for them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-health-care-bill-moderates-conservatives_us_58e42101e4b0d0b7e165d65b?dx&
That is why 2018 is critical
wishstar
(5,271 posts)We can only hope there are enough moderate Repubs not susceptible to the bribes and blackmailing from leaders, but afraid of wrath of the voters they face next year.
elleng
(131,031 posts)However, they are incompetent in many ways. I don't expect they'll succeed in repealing ACA, and surely not replacing it, hence I doubt they'll go further as you suggest. BUT, IMPORTANT are the 'small' things they do, day to day.
Don't listen to what they say; watch what they do.
jmg257
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(20,986 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Clearly they are drunk with power and too impaired to steer the country safely.