If we can choose not to have healthcare, why can't we choose single payer or Medicare for All?
The new angle the Republicans are trying to play is that of those 22 million that will be losing healthcare under tRumpcare, most of these people are choosing to not have healthcare. Since these people are so concerned about our "choices", why won't they allow us the choices we really want ... single payer (or a public option) or Medicare at an earlier age?
You’re Not Losing Your Health Care, Senate GOPers Say. You’re Choosing!
As Senate Republicans lurch towards repealing the Affordable Care Act, party leaders and the Trump administration are pushing a new line about the projection that their bill would strip 22 million people of their health insurance over the next decade: that many or most of those people would be exercising their freedoms and dropping coverage by choice.
“If you’re not going to force people to buy something they don’t want, then they won’t buy it,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Fox News. “So it’s not that people are getting pushed off a plan. It’s that people will choose not to buy something they don’t like or want.”
Ryan’s GOP colleagues in the Senate are doubling down on this argument even as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and outside health care experts say it is largely the bill’s gutting of Medicaid, reduction of subsidies and increase in out-of-pocket costs that would price tens of millions of people out of the health care marketplace entirely.
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