Speaker of the US House of representatives, Paul Ryan (R), along with senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R) and the elite republican “leadership” look and sound desperate now. The “Death Spiral” lie is back as the leading remark in their campaign to claw back healthcare for millions of people. And to re-establish Insurance corporations as the primary authority of who gets what and for what price.
For the better part of eight years and over 50 attempts to repeal PPACA H.R.3590 (Obamacare - which regulated insurance giants and protected people from corporate abuse including price gouging) the republican’s most virulent scare tactic was the claim that the Healthcare law passed was in a perpetual, unavoidable “death spiral’ and that Grandmothers all over the country would soon be facing a “death panel”.
It wasn’t true then, and it’s isn’t true now. It was a lie made by the CEO of Aetna Insurance giant when the Dept of Justice blocked an attempt by Aetna to merge with Humana. This attempt by Aetna violated anti-trust laws designed to prohibit monopolies.
— All In with Chris Hayes | March 9, 2017
Find out the real reason the Aetna CEO said Obamacare was in a death spiral, when in fact, it is not in a death spiral.
Healthcare, the republicans and pretty much all one needs to know about it has been covered here for years by Joan McCarter, but this latest series of bald faced lies coming from republican politicians with speaker of the US House of Congress Paul Ryan taking center stage, is so egregious, farcical and cruel a package of propaganda that it needs to be exposed for the craven swindle it really is.
For years now we’ve heard republican politicians promise lower costs via more “competition” with their “cross state lines” (aka race to the bottom) lie...; when in fact the “death spiral” lie began as an attempt by one of the largest Insurance corporations to form a monopoly — Aetna — iow’s, exactly the opposite of the truth
Paul Ryan’s latest swindle, his so-called Healthcare plan which is literally endangering the lives of millions of people, hitting older folks (yes grandmothers an fathers too), middle & lower income people and even Trump voters and rural voters hardest, is being sold as — “An Act of Mercy” — arrrgh ..
“If we did nothing the law would collapse, and leave everybody without affordable healthcare,”
Ryan said at a press conference with other House GOP leaders.
“We are doing an act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient-centered healthcare reforms.”
No.
If the republican politician like Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell did nothing...
If they all, let’s say for argument sake,..didn’t have healthcare and were too sick to make it to “work”.
Too sick to waste years trying to stop 25 million people from having needed medical care for perhaps the first time in their lives;
..too sick to put together plan after plan to privatize-for-profit: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid...
..too sick to show up at tax payer expense with a plan that guts healthcare for millions of people while securing tax cuts for those most wealthy…
..too sick to hide from every person what, for last few years has been one of their favorite false claims of Dems “ramming Healthcare down our throats” and what pure hubris and actual hypocrisy on steroids really looks like...
...to sick to stand there and continue to deceive the American people and the world watching that their only agenda is to finally End the New Deal and secure tax cuts for those most wealthy; that in reality when Paul Ryan claims: “This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing Obamacare,” without allowing time for the CBO (congressional budget office) to ‘score’ their latest healthcare fraud,..
... we’d all be better off.
what this is about:
A desperate move by Paul Ryan and his cohort of coin operated republican politicians feverishly trying to “ram this agenda down America’s collective throat”
— A corporate only agenda requiring all social programs to end using disguises like “block grants” and putting Insurance giants like Aetna “between you and you doctor” — or whether a person deserves to even see a doctor
This series of pronouncements by Paul Ryan, Trump, and republicans politicians are nothing but dirty rotten lies.
“It really comes down to a binary choice,” Ryan said
Lies and false choices that will cost lives. Lives that these coin operated republican politicians are actually putting up in trade.
Lives to be bartered off to secure more tax cuts for the wealthy and to end the New Deal social programs entirely
Over the years witnessing the depth of cravenness, cruelty and and dishonestly, I thought I’d heard the worst from the so-called “conservative movement”, but when Ryan squealed that this was “an act of mercy”..that did it. This really is “the biggest lie” — Deliberately causing death and calling it “an act of mercy”
No, this is not “freedom” or “liberty” as republicans love to claim they honor — this is vengeance against all Americans. This is punishment, and a call for absolute obedience to our corporate “betters” — imo — a compliant, obedient, silenced populace that knows and keeps to their designated station in life — if there is life for those whose healthcare will disappear if republicans like Paul Ryan have their way
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I’ve got to finish tinkering with a leaky sink & make a supply run — be back in awhile — okay I changed plans and pulled the diary ‘til the sink was fixed — it’s all good now :)
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— though i’m still seething at this fucking republican “act of mercy” trash talk, but done with this rant .. for now — that is