Analysis by two Washington think tanks reveals the Senate “health care” bill (put in quotes because it’s really a disguised tax cut from the rich) is indeed skewed to the rich; it would benefit only households with income exceeding $75,000 a year, with most of the benefit going to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘health care’
May 8th, 2017 - 10:54 am § in Donald Trump
Comment by SMS: TRUMPCARE
TRUMPCARE will 1. restore funding to Medicaid. 2. restore funding for prescriptions, likely with some option for insurance companies to negotiate prices. 3. eliminate mandatory enrollment, Replace this with some subterfuge that looks like it is different. 4. provide real funding for high risk poo[...]
May 4th, 2017 - 11:52 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP GLEE: When the GOP is giving you $5 per person per year to cover pre-existing conditions:
“A liberal think tank says hundreds of thousands of Americans [will] be left without coverage under the so-called Upton amendment, the Republican plan to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions under the health care overhaul passed on Thursday. GOP Reps. Fred Upton and Billy Long proposed[...]
January 17th, 2017 - 10:52 pm § in Politics
Meet the GOP health care plan
Take a chicken or goat to your doctor, and ask him how much health care you can get in exchange. This might not be the official GOP Obamacare replacement plan, but when Sue Lowden ran against Harry Reid in 2010, it was the plan she came up with. So far, it’s the only solid, fleshed-out, [&he[...]
March 22nd, 2016 - 12:16 pm § in Misc.
A Paen to German Healthcare
Terry Miles FACEBOOK This country is so F up! I am unemployed, but have health insurance through my significant other’s company. However, I can’t afford to go to the doctors! I seriously miss living in Germany, where I paid a little bit more in taxes, but I could go to the doctors an[...]
January 27th, 2016 - 10:17 am § in Misc.
US Health Care Sustem Threatens Diabetics … Your Life or Your Money
Diabetics have no choice; if we can not obtain insulin, we die. YES, I AM A DIABETIC. My drug store costs, despite having very good insurance, is hundreds of dollars each month. If I were living on Social Security and Medicare, I would not be able to treat my disease and would die. Insulin [...]
July 24th, 2015 - 6:21 pm § in Misc.
BUSH III WANTS TO END MEDICARE!
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush: “We … need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system that allows them to have something, because they’re not going to have anything.” Bush proposed to give seniors medical vouchers instead [...]
June 25th, 2015 - 8:02 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS OBAMACARE UPHELD: Call it SCOTUSCARE!
Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia is not happy about the Supreme Court’s decision to save President Obama’s signature healthcare law. In a fiery dissent Scalia lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts for his key vote to save a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allowed the fede[...]
June 20th, 2015 - 9:19 am § in Politics
Why Obamacare will win again in the Supreme Court
When the Supreme Court issues its much-awaited King v. Burwell decision this month, possibly as soon as Monday, conservatives hoping to kill off Obamacare will lose again because Chief Justice Roberts, who holds the swing vote, is staunchly pro-business, and huge business interests are at stake in t[...]
Why the GOP proposal for healthcare is nonsense .. and why no one will do anything about it.
The real issue in REPEAL AND REPLACE is that the meme is pure nonsense. All the fixes either party could build will fail until they address the real issue … the superinflation of healthcare costs in the US. For example, some GOP types want a national insurance exchange. The most obvious re[...]