Poor Care

Low income and sick? Don't worry. You too can get the new Republican health plan: Poor Care. We will guarantee that every low income American will receive Poor Care at a doctor's office or Poor Care at a hospital emergency room. Pregnant? Don't worry. You can get Poor Care anywhere but Planned Parenthood. Already have kids? Don't worry. They will also receive Poor Care. Poor Care for everyone who is not rich is our motto! Poor Care will available in every rural area in America, urban centers, suburbs. Under the Republican plan, Poor Care will be the new normal. "Believe me," said J. Lord Dampnut, "if you are of lower income under my Administration, you will receive Poor Care, very Poor Care." * * * * * * * * * * * Speaker of the House Republican Paul Ryan, discussing health insurance in a power point presentation before Congress, doesn't think it is right that people in good health help pay for people in not so good health. Dude. That's what health insurance is. * * ** * * * * * * * * So far everybody likes the Republican plan to replace the ACA (the plan takes health insurance away from 10 million Americans increases costs to almost everyone covered to give $600 billion in tax cuts to people earning over $250,000 a year) except the AARP, the AMA, the association of hospitals, nurses, conservative Republicans, moderate Republicans, all Democrats, and 20 million Americans who now have health insurance who would not otherwise have it. * * * * * * * * * * A full 10% of the Republican no health care bill has to do with lottery winners who receive medicaid. And strangely enough, I have no problem with someone who wins $10 million being disqualified from medicaid. Nevertheless, it can't be that large a problem. Republicans seem to regularly use the "outlier" situation as the common denominator. So because someone somewhere won a bundle and used a technicality to get medicaid, 10 to 20 million Americans must therefore have their health insurance taken away? Seems like a bad idea to me.* * * * * * * * * * * The removal of the word "Affordable" from the bill's title pretty much covers it. * * * * * * * * * After seeing parts of Ben Carson's speech to employees of HUD, the only job I can see Ben Carson actually doing well is creepy televangelist. * * * * * * * * * * People who don't understand health insurance are writing the ACA replacement bill, people who don't see a connection between carbon dioxide and global temperature are in charge of environmental protection, people who don't understand education are in charge of the Dept. of Education, oil industry executives connected to Russia are in charge of the State Department, religious ideologues in charge of scientific research, Rick Perry is in charge of our nuclear arsenal.....and so on.......people who undermined democracy are in charge of our government. Ask yourself: What could possibly go wrong?"