Former republican House speaker had years dealing with teabaggers and the like:
— February 23, 2017
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has been watching the controversy over health care play out from the sidelines, and he understands better than most how hard it is to forge a compromise within his party, even under the best of circumstances
..pretty much knows a con when he sees one, I’d guess:
Ryan and Trump both vowed to ram their replacement plan through Congress early this year – although it’s not clear now whether the Trump administration will prepare a plan of its own or simply offer advice to Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on what should be in it.
Boehner today dismissed Ryan’s and Trump’s earlier upbeat predictions that their replacement plan would sail through Congress as just “happy talk.”
“I started laughing,” he said. “Republicans never ever agree on health care.”
It’s no mystery why republican politicians all over the country are running & hiding from their constituents they’re supposed to be looking out for and representing. They’re cowards and corporate sycophants
So far it looks to be a double swindle coming from the Trump/GOP regime:
• For the true nut-job republican that wants Obamacare completely gutted — too bad
• For those republicans that now are beginning to realize voting republican may cost them in ways they hadn’t considered.. or worse — too bad. The GOP politicians in order to please their rabid base (that they fear) will waste countless hours, months or more, attempting to worsen the best parts of Obamacare protections (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act) while pretending they have everything under control.
All over America in cities and small rural towns and everywhere in between, people are rising up, both republicans and Dems:
— February 16, 2017
Rachel Maddow surveys that many and growing groups organizing across the country in opposition to Donald Trump's agenda.
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— February 22, 2017
A constituent tells Sen. Tom Cotton: 'Three members of my family, including me, would be dead and homeless if it was not for ACA.'
don’t worry; it’s not Tweety, but Chris Hayes in this next video segment
At some point as more of the rwnj’s realize that, not only have they been conned, but that those republican voters who also voted for Trump, who are not your typical teabag rwnj and are truly concerned about the republican threat to take away health care, discover that the Trump “promise” and the Paul Ryan ‘repeal & replace’ plan(s) is just another a vehicle to give more tax breaks to those already rich elite; increasing the wealth of their only true constituents; the 1%er ‘donor class’:
F. Douglas Stephenson,LCSW,LMFT,BCD February 23, 2017
Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, writes that by repealing ACA an average of $33,000 of tax cuts would be given to the richest 1 percent this year alone, and a whopping $197,000 of tax cuts given to the top 0.1 percent.
The 400 highest-income taxpayers (with incomes averaging more than $300 million each) will each receive an average annual tax cut of about $7 million.
It would also increase the taxes of families earning between $10,000 and $75,000 – including just about all of Trump’s working class voters.
Secretary Reich lists what we end up with when Republicans repeal Obamacare-ACA:
– 32 million people losing their health insurance,
– tens of thousands of Americans dying because they don’t get the medical care they need,
– Medicare in worse shape,
– And the rich becoming far richer.
To maintain corporate control of U.S. health care insurance, our system is privatized and unregulated. Private, Big Insurance companies are in the business of making money, not providing health care, and when they undertake the latter, it is likely not to be in the best interests of patients or to be efficient. Administrative costs (and immense profiteering ) are greater in the private health care insurance system, and even Medicare itself is weakened by having to work through the private system.
..and people (republicans included) will be paying more for healthcare and subsidizing those most wealthy if the GOP has much success.
Every promise made by the GOP over the years is opposite the truth. These basic republican talking points specifically:
- States, not the federal government, should have primary responsibility for health policy;
- Patients and doctors should be in control;
- There should be more competition among health plans to give patients more choices [crossing state lines]; and
- Small business should have more discretion and flexibility to configure health benefits for their employees.
de-bunking all four republican talking points:
1) Ending Medicare as we know it. One of the most successful programs every developed
2) this claim would be laughable if it didn’t cost real lives. The for-profit Insurance cartel controls access with all of Paul Ryan’s plans
3) “competition”. perhaps the longest con of them all. a race to the bottom amounting to junk insurance that often doesn’t pay (pre-conditions covered (?)— not a chance).
4) truly small businesses will not be able to afford the hikes in prices controlled by private insurance. Big Pharma, and Medical device corporations..private special interests etc.
Dr. Geyman explains the above untruths by republican politicians in the first article and more from this next article by Dr. John Geyman:
Dr. Geyman also exposes the ridiculous claim by republicans going back decades that NHI (national health insurance) program like Medicare (even Medicare for all) is not “evil socialized medicine” (August 8th, 2016)
Ran into this yesterday while searching.
The truth behind the Heritage Foundation (besides their racists members or.. maybe because of them — the Richard Spencer types):
“...a Movement That Can Transform America”
Ronald Reagan knew something that no one else knew
In 1980, just as Reagan was beginning his first term in office, The Heritage Foundation developed a 1,100 page detailed policy manual on everything from taxes and regulation to trade and national defense. This “Mandate for Leadership” as it was so titled was described by United Press International back then as:
“a blueprint for grabbing the government by its frayed New Deal lapels and shaking out 48 years of liberal policy.”
President Reagan used “Mandate” to help realize his vision of a world free of communism, an economy that didn’t crush people’s dreams with high taxes and regulations, and an America the world could admire once again. He gave copies to every member of his Cabinet. The result: Nearly two-thirds of “Mandate’s” 2,000 recommendations were adopted or attempted by the Reagan administration.
Now is a time for a new Mandate for Leadership
We have come a long way since Reagan—and not in a good way. The liberal policies of the Obama administration have put a stranglehold on free enterprise.
New entitlements such as Obamacare have led to the largest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. As Reagan once said:
“Government is not the solution to the problem, government is the problem.”
..GOP agenda has near always been to end the New Deal (1st & 2nd).
Here are the New Deal top ten programs specifically designed to help lift up the every day worker and bring prosperity to those who are not a part of the rich elite. That includes Social Security. Something the “conservative” Heritage Foundation aims to “...grab by its frayed New Deal lapel” and gut out of existence
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— Ending Social Security and/or handing their retirement savings over to Wall Street, what took a life time working & paying into; Wonder how many republican voters are keen on that idea
check out the New Deal ‘Top Ten Programs” link. It has programs listed that would really do some good if revitalized today in a modernized version. They’re all good, but I’ve posted these that specifically target job creation:
1. CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps
2. CWA - Civil Works Administration (The CWA ended in 1934 in large part due to opposition to its cost.)
7. PWA - Public Works Administration (It ended in 1941.)
10. WPA - Works Progress Administration (It officially ended in 1943.)
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— In the end it’s looking more & more likely that the GOP will again fail to ‘repeal & replace’ Obamacare; the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. Any “success” they manage to pull-off will accrue as a liability for the GOP and that is a good thing — imo