Now that we know the republicans intend to segregate the sick and weak among us in to “High Risk Pools” to deliver “reform”/price breaks to those Americans who do not have the misfortune of serious disease, I propose we rip off the Tea Party and refer to them as “Death Pools.”
The use of this pejorative description should commence immediately and be repeated ceaselessly, so as to ingrain that concept in to the heads of all Americans before they ever have a chance to consider the republican’s replacement of the ACA.
Also, poison pills that sound perfectly reasonable and unobjectionable need to abound.
All state Death Pools, for example, must guarantee, as a matter of federal law, a defined level of coverage regardless of state funding. If the state fails to properly fund their Death Pool, the feds would guarantee the funding and reduce all other federal funding to make up the shortfall.
Limits on the % of non-payment of benefits spending an insurance company engage in.
Etc….
I have a son with a life shortening disease. This is a fight we can, and must, win, but we must fight hard, effectively and on multiple fronts.
What other strategies are there to combat DEATH POOLS in the court of public opinion?