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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat Jul 25, 2015, 12:25 AM Jul 2015

GOP "Waiting For Godot" Health Care Plan Post Obamacare.

If the GOP were to succeed with ending the Affordable Care Act ala Obamacare, their plans would look like the theater of the absurd play "Waiting For Godot". We constantly hear the meme if everyone gets health care patients will wait forever to get care. Well if all their plans were to come to fruition on health care you would not have to worry about health care or appointments. There simply would not be any for most Americans.

What the GOP promises is as genuine as "fools gold". So I do not understand the lack of outrage. How is any one of these GOPPER presidential candidates ever to stay on a stage without being run off and even out of town. Why do we have so much tolerance of politicians who want to put and end to so much?.

Without Medicare and decent health care insurance I would have been dead or alive broke after my staff infection cost me my left foot with no Medicare or insurance. The bills for care would have been staggering. What would it be like to have to make a decision about whether you will live or die because you could not afford treatment. What would I have done if I had the choice of amputation with bankruptcy or denying care and literally dying. What choice would you make if it was bankrupting your family and surviving or dying.

Even now after all these months I am on a decent prosthetic. But that too costs. Try $10,000 plus for a bionic leg. And I will need a refit in a few months. On average an amputee goes through two or more fits before they stabilize.

Every GOP candidate supports letting a patient die because we cannot afford to take care of our own people. But we will spend trillions for war and weapons.

As far as I am concerned Jebbie should be run off the stage and humiliated and abused in the worst way for being such a God damned lying prick. He and others are talking about ending Medicare for present and future seniors and NOT just reform.

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