I want to throw up at this beer party! This is a VERY ugly picture!
LBJ foretold how Tweety would betray Americans, specifically his supporters, but Tweety did it a little differently by making Americans afraid of Mexicans, Muslims, and, sadly, women. Now angry white men will give up all their money to get someone elected who can help them look down on these classes of people; it makes the angry white men feel empowered.
Look it up it you care about what LBJ said.
Vote in 2018. Fire the people who take away and screw up your health care RIGHT. health care is a FUNDAMENTAL right of ALL, not just rich people.
Yes, yes, Americans, I accept and acknowledge (I did it twice for you - said "Yes" twice - lol) that the Affordable Care Act, negatively termed "Obama Care" so foolish people would think of it negatively, that there were flaws.
Now, do Tweety supporters recall Tweety saying who knew it was so complex?
Do Tweety supporters recall Tweety saying getting health care for Americans is a hard thing?
OK, so the Affordable Care Act, a law of America, (I added that point so you recognize the ACA is the LAW - and you are all law abiding, right?), wasnot perfect. BUT Americans now know that health care is best treated in Americas "SOCIAL CONTRACT" as a RIGHT! Health care is a RIGHT! Health CARE is an American right!
Can we start with health care being a RIGHT, NOT a COMMODITY OR A PRODUCT TO SELL FOR A PROFIT! How can health care be a commodity for sale to the highest bidder?
Understand health care insurance:
"Insurance 101 For Paul Ryan: The Healthy Are Supposed To Help Pay For The Sick"
Obamacare is in a “death spiral” because the insured are sharing the risk, explains congressman.
By Mary Papenfuss, March 10, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-insurance-twitter_us_58c210b5e4b0ed71826b85e7
"Paul Ryan is aghast that healthy individuals are paying into an insurance pot that’s used when people are sick. But ... that’s exactly the way insurance works.
Twitter positively erupted Thursday to school Mr. Health Insurance on the concept.
Everyone pays into the pot and draws on it when they’re sick. Younger people, who tend to be healthier than older people, pay for health insurance like everyone else. They’ll rely on it when when they need it, probably more when they’re older and there are younger, healthier people filing in behind them. It’s the same with car insurance. Some people pay for decades and never get into an accident and never collect on their coverage (though the likelihood of anyone never using health insurance is unlikely).
That’s what actuarial figures are all about, so an insurance system can assess the risks of segments of customers to determine what everyone needs to put into the pot so there’s enough to pay out when someone needs the money."
Or is there some fault in the "shared risk" notion we regular people cannot see? How does it work Charlie? See his words below.
"No, 'Shared Risk' Is Not How Insurance Works"
By Charlie Martin March 16, 2017
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/03/16/no-shared-risk-is-not-how-insurance-works/
"One of the most persistent -- and pernicious -- myths about insurance, health insurance in particular, is the notion that insurance works by sharing risk: that any combination of proposed benefits is perfectly reasonable since everyone is sharing the risk and that's all happy-happy Kumbaya.
This is one of those myths that's almost true. It's subtly wrong, but all the more pernicious because of that.
To explain this, we're going to have to appeal to the risk equation R=P×H again. I've hit this a lot, so I won't explain it in detail (you can go here, here, and here for more details). The basic idea is that if you're afraid of an event that costs H dollars, but is unlikely, instead of saving H dollars against that unlikely rainy day, you can make a bet with another party against the chance that unlikely rainy day will happen. To make that bet, you put up a little more than R dollars as your side of the bet. If the rainy day does happen, you "win" the bet, and the other side pays you H dollars."
OK, I give you Charlie and his formula. But yu don't talk about who pays for the high risk people. YOu conveniently overlook the FACT someone HAS TO PAY. The GOP proposed setting aside a huge amount of money, but it is not going to be enough.
This math explanation is way over the top, which, in my opinion, clarifies nothing. Why can't old and young do "sharing risk" if we all put some amount into an account? The, when one of us gets sick, we can use that account for funds to pay for our health care?
Why do you want us to buy your argument Charlie as it makes no logical sense, math or not, complex or not, formula, etc. Do you by any coincidence also work for an insurance company?
What is truly pernicious is your attempt to think we are so stupid as to not see the simple answer versus your complex bull shit. And, Charlie, you are the fool for buying the insurance company explanation about sharing risk. You are selling the insurance crap. I hope they paid you well.
"McAuliffe blasts GOP for celebrating health care bill"
By Eugene Scott, CNN
Updated 9:05 AM ET, Fri May 5, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/politics/terry-mcauliffe-health-care-bill-republicans/
"(CNN)The Democratic governor of Virginia tore into Republicans Friday for "celebrating" the passage of a health care bill, saying sick Americans will die if it becomes law. "They're having a big beer party celebrating what they did," Gov. Terry McAuliffe told CNN's Chris Cuomo Friday on "New Day." "People are going to lose lives. People are going to lose health coverage and they think this is a party? They think this is fun?"
"These are real people and real numbers and unfortunately the rhetoric of political campaigning has come in and it will do grave danger to the country," he said."
"High-risk pools, a centerpiece of GOP health care bill, have a history in Colorado"
State’s former insurance commissioner says Colorado needed lots of money
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/05/high-risk-pools-ahca-history-colorado/
"In the GOP health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives this week, there is an echo from Colorado’s health-policy past.
As part of the bill’s controversial provision that could allow insurers not to cover customers’ pre-existing conditions, there is also a requirement: In order to trigger the provision, states must first set up high-risk insurance pools.
What are high-risk pools? They’re something Colorado and numerous other states have already tried — with mixed results that are still being debated today.
In theory, the idea is simple. Because a small percentage of people make up an enormous share of health care spending, high-risk pools group all those people in one place, on the same insurance plan. That makes the remaining mainstream insurance pool relatively healthier, meaning premiums for people in that group should go down. The people in the high-risk pool pay more for coverage, but they aren’t shut out entirely.
In practice in Colorado?
“It certainly was a challenge,” said Marcy Morrison, who, as the state’s insurance commissioner during Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration, oversaw Colorado’s high-risk pool, called CoverColorado. The pool ran from 1991 until 2014, when the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition on insurers excluding people with pre-existing conditions made the program obsolete.
The problems, Morrison said, came down to money."
The fact is risk pools are not the solution! They solve nothing! They merely segregate unfortunate sick people as targets for those who do not want them to live any longer than they "should." It is an ugly solution, a "Soylent Green" solution in my opinion. Look it up - "Soylent Green." Sad! Sick! Uninformed!
Did the $$$billions Republicans stated they would set aside for risk pools amount to enough? And can they EVER pass a budget with that promised money? I doubt the billions will ever show up, especially after Republicans give huge tax cuts for the rich people of America.
"These 24 Republicans Were Already Vulnerable—and Now They Just Voted to Repeal Obamacare"
They all represent districts where Donald Trump got a minority of the vote.
Tim MurphyMay 4, 2017 2:51 PM
"The bill picked up support from 14 Republicans whose districts were carried by Hillary Clinton in November:
Carlos Curbelo (Fla.): Clinton 56.7–Trump 40.6
David Valadao (Calif.): Clinton 55.2–Trump 39.7
Ed Royce (Calif.): Clinton 51.5–Trump 42.9
Erik Paulsen (Minn.): Clinton 50.8–Trump 41.4
Darrell Issa (Calif.): Clinton 50.7–Trump 43.2
Steve Knight (Calif.): Clinton 50.3–Trump 43.6
Peter Roskam (Ill.): Clinton 50.2–Trump 43.2
Mimi Walters (Calif.): Clinton 49.8–44.4
Martha McSally (Ariz.): Clinton 49.6–Trump 44.7
Jeff Denham (Calif.): Clinton 48.5–Trump 45.5
Pete Sessions (Texas): Clinton 48.5–Trump 46.6
John Culberson (Texas): Clinton 48.5–Trump 47.1
Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.): Clinton 47.9–Trump 46.2
Kevin Yoder (Kans.): Clinton 47.2–Trump 46.0
The bill picked up an additional 10 votes from Republicans in districts where Trump received less than 50 percent of the vote:
Jason Lewis (Minn.): Trump 46.5–Clinton 45.3
Don Bacon (Neb.): Trump 48.2–Clinton 46
David Young (Iowa): Trump 48.5–Clinton 45
Rod Blum (Iowa) Trump 48.7–Clinton 45.2
Randy Hultgren (Ill.): Trump 48.7–Clinton 44.8
Rodney Frelinghuysen (N.J.): Trump 48.8–Clinton 47.9
Scott Taylor (Va.): Trump 48.8–Clinton 45.4
Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.): Trump 49.6–Clinton 47.9
Dave Trott (Mich.): Trump 49.7–Clinton 45.4
Rodney Davis (Ill.) Trump 49.7–Clinton 44.2"
"These 24 Republicans Were Already Vulnerable—and Now They Just Voted to Repeal Obamacare"
They all represent districts where Donald Trump got a minority of the vote.
Tim MurphyMay 4, 2017 2:51 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/democrats-republicans-targets-obamacare-repeal
