TrumpCare. RyanCare. The American Health Care Act. The repeal of ObamaCare at all costs, no matter the consequences.
That's the GOP way. Take care of your cronies and benefactors and screw your constituents. Like the pack of wolves they are, they will go after the weak- the sick, the poor, the elderly, robbing them to give to those who already have plenty, and want for nothing.
But plenty is never enough for those people. No matter how much they have- they always want more. And they don't like to share...
At least wolves kill because they're hungry. Right wing thugs kill for money and power.
If TrumpCare passes, it will basically gut Medicaid. States will be given block grants, and spending caps will be instituted. The Medicaid expansion will effectively be rolled back. No doubt it will debut to much fanfare from the Lunatic-in-Chief, who will crow about how it is "bringing families back together".
This, coming from a rich entitled prick who probably never had to change a diaper in his life- not on a baby, let alone on an elderly adult. The rich have nannies and nurses for those unpleasant tasks. The rest of us have to live in the real world...
Will the elderly be turned out of nursing homes into the streets? Or will families be forced to take them in? In many cases, the "children" of nursing home patients may themselves be in their 60's and 70's, and facing their own decreasing mobility, health issues, and reduced incomes.
To impose caring for an elderly parent 24/7 on an aged "child" is unconscionable. It's the old, being forced to care for the even older, and it has no place in a society that calls itself civilized, in the richest country on earth.
Some states such as Pennsylvania have draconian filial responsibility laws which will force the adult children of nursing home patients to pick up the tab if Medicaid isn't there to pay. Nursing home costs can run upwards of$100,000 a year, and I don't know any average person who can afford that.
Families who are unable to care for their relatives and must choose a skilled nursing facility will likely be bankrupted by those long term care costs, costs which this bill does nothing to address.
If states receive block grants, and caps are imposed, those states will have to make Solomon's choice. Who gets those precious dollars- the young, or the old and sick? Who lives? Who dies? And who makes that decision?
People work all their lives. They pay taxes. They are productive members of society. Most of them ask little in return from a government that takes half of every dollar earned in the form of one tax or another.
It is not unreasonable for one to expect something back in their hour of need, especially at the end of their lives when they can no longer care for themselves.
I foresee cases in which the children of the elderly will choose to end their own lives, absolving their spouses and families of the financial burden of paying for nursing home care for a parent. They will do this rather than seeing their families bankrupted and put on the street.
In the richest country on earth, people may have to choose suicide because of healthcare costs. It boggles the mind.
No other citizen in the developed world will have to make a decision like this. The rest of the developed world considers health care a right- not a privilege.
Oh yes, the GOP loves LIFE- just not YOUR life. Or your grandmother or grandfather or mom or dad's life.
I have never been so ashamed and sickened by this country and government as I am now.
I am ashamed that an insane clown has been elected to the highest office in the land. I am ashamed that nearly half of my fellow citizens voted for this evil bastard.
I didn't vote for him, but if you did- guess what? You're going to get screwed along with the rest of us. Congratulations.
I am sickened by his aberrant behavior, incompetence, paranoia, untrustworthiness, and unsuitability for the office.
I am outraged by his flagrant violations of the Constitution, and his actions, some of which border on treason.
Yet he and his monstrous policies and actions are vigorously defended by the billionaire right wing thugs and theocrats of the GOP.
He is a useful idiot. Russia will use him to get what they want, as will the GOP.
The GOP has a hit list. Social programs, environmental programs, science, education, clean water and air, safe foods and drugs, consumer protection, infrastructure- they are all on it.
The money saved would go to better use waging wars (for corporate profit) and to further line the pockets of billionaires. Screw the citizens.
Make no mistake about what this is. This is a thinning of the herd.
The right wing zealots and billionaires may start with the weakest members of our society, but they will get around to all of us eventually.
And they'll wave their flags and talk about freedom and God and the sanctity of life while they're doing it...
It makes me want to vomit.
