The House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act last night which… actually doesn’t do whole lot, much less repeal Obamacare. Even if some version gets through the Democrat-Run/Republican Majority senate, it’s not going to fundamentally change the idea that the Government should run health care (into the ground).
Nevertheless; the Democrat Left is reacting as though their trust funds had just been taken over by Bernie Madoff:
DailyKos:House Republicans vote to sentence millions of Americans to death
Slate: The GOP’s passage of Trumpcare is one of the cruelest things the party has ever done.
Professional Hillary fanboy Peter Daou says that the AHCA “Literally saves money by having people die sooner. Diabolical.” Um… that’s exactly how your revered single payer systems in Britain and Canada work.
Democrat Media Operative Tavis Smiley seems to think the bill eliminates Medicare and Medicaid. “When health insurance is a commodity that only the rich can buy, poor people suffer and the elderly just die.”
Another member of Democrat leadership said passing the AHCA was an “act of terrorism.” I am not making this up.
All these histrionics (and more at the link) over a bill that barely touches the basic premise of Obamacare: the Government should run health care and force healthy people to pay for sick people who didn’t plan for getting sick.
After the election I (and others no doubt) predicted that Repubs will go behind closed doors with lawyers, lobbyists, etc, and bring forth another bill we have to pass to find out what’s in it. I hate being right.
Is this the new standard? Each time there is a transfer of power in DC will there be a new healthcare system?
This is what happens when government goes where it doesn’t belong.
the ahca “literally saves money by having people die sooner. diabolical.” where was old pete in 2009? that was exactly how Obamacare,bka the kill off the senior citizens act was supposed to work.
with this new ahca paul ryan just made trump a one term president. all those republicans voted in and those democrat voted out in the last 8 years were mainly because the of the horrible mess Obamacare made of people’s medical insurance. now with this lousy law ryan has shifted the blame for people’s lousy medical insurance from Obama to trump.
It appears the establishment R’s plan to hand over the House, the Senate and the White House to Democrats.
Maybe that’s the plan. If enough people can be desensitized to the hysteria, it’ll matter much less.
The “comedy” show hosts are all indignant over this (that seems to be their default state, rather than, say, jocular), but if the shoe was on the other foot, they would be trumpeting this as a triumph of Democratic ingenuity.
If/when the Dems assume a majority in Congress, it will be interesting to see how they do with a populace conditioned to respond to every issue with hysterics.
I’ve long thought that the Dems are training a tiger they won’t be able to ride.