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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53834/cbo-report-republican-healthcare/This Is Not a Healthcare Bill
It's a tax cut.
By Charles P. Pierce
Mar 13, 2017
Good evening, suckers.
Obviously, we'll have more to say about the political effects of the "scoring" of the Republican proposal to change the way that Americans obtain the peace of mind that comes with actually having health insurance. But the Congressional Budget Officeabout which the president* is of two minds, and both of them ignorantreport that came out late Monday made a few things eminently clear.
2) This bill is not concerned with providing affordable health insurance to the most people. It is a designed to give a massive tax cut to the wealthiest Americans.
3) This bill has nothing to do with what people need when they get sick. They are a secondary consideration to the tax cut and, amazingly, to The Deficit, in direct contravention of the Blog's First Law of Economics: Fck The Deficit. People Got No jobs. People Got No Money. As a result of this, Medicaid also will be led to the slaughter pen.
You heard the drums beating all weekend. The Republicans do not care that fewer people will be covered than are covered now. Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, was quite plain that he's going to hang his vestigial humanity on the concept of "access," which is a bogus metric on many levels. (Right now, as I sit here, I have "access" to a Cabriolet. Don't have the money to buy it, though.) I just heard a conservative pundit on MSNBC say that coverage is "not a Republican priority" in the healthcare debate, which at least is honest.
And now that the numbers are out, it seems they have been very true to their words. There will be 14 million more uninsured Americans in 2018 and 24 million a decade from now. That's a lot of preventable illness and death right there. The "savings" in the CBO report rely on the notion that the government will save $30 million a year by throwing people off Medicaid. A lot of people are going to lose health insurance, and a lot of people are going to get sick and die who would have done neither if we'd just left everything passed in 2009 alone.
But that's not the point of this bill. This bill is a tax cut in sheep's clothing, and the sheep's clothing doesn't even fit very well over the fangs.
Botany
(70,539 posts)Why the fuck does anybody vote republican if they are not really rich?
babylonsister
(171,076 posts)their pea brains for years to hate Hillary. So natch, they couldn't vote for her. And he stirred up his supporters with all that hate; for them, what wasn't to like?
Botany
(70,539 posts)I have seen "it" (the Hillary hatred) 1st hand and these people don't have a pot
to pee in but that gun grabbing b***h d**e didn't win because "we stopped Hillary."
Fox, Rush, and lately the Russians have been stimulating the dumb ass poor white reptilian
brain for years.
I wonder how they will feel when they lose their health care?
AJT
(5,240 posts)They're the real bad guys.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)while screwing the poor and the middle class to pay for it.
Surprise, surprise. NOT.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)400 families in the US.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)like sh(t. But,what can we expect from a Fake Apprentice loser.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Next up is getting rid of the estate tax so the rich can remain so forever.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)other things. My take is this,if you make less than 75k per year,get ready for one hell of a Income Tax smack in the face. First,your standard deductions will exclude Mortgage Interest,out of pocket Medical,most likely any Further Educational Costs. Appears this will produce and average of fifteen hundred to more than several thousands.
Remember most of us are those pesky 47% identified by the GOP during the Romney/Ryan Campaign.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Judging from Trumpcare, 200K seems to be the lower target for their 'winners'. And just wait until the deficit skyrockets and they 'just have to' cut social security and medicare to pay for it all....
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)understand the Tax Brackets will change supporting a small increase for Households above the 70+k,this is how the Plan covers off sets. Remember,it is all about the Middle Class voters in the Red States in order to protect the GOP . Watched a couple of Trumps so called Economic Advisors on Bloombeg,and their thing is to shift the Tax Burden from Families with income above 75k-200k to the lower percentile population with their theory this group gets more public assistance and there for it will not be a big burden.
Almost fell off my chair when these slugs said this. Only the beginning.
underpants
(182,848 posts)That's almost nothing compared to the loss of coverage.
Botany
(70,539 posts)n/t
underpants
(182,848 posts)That's just horrific
Th y aren't saving anything. As noted below; social costs, employers, and emergency room/indigent care.
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)underpants
(182,848 posts)and a lot of these people are going to go back to the emergency room at the last minute
babylonsister
(171,076 posts)cancer patients. Seriously??
VMA131Marine
(4,141 posts)Beartracks
(12,820 posts)====================
mcar
(42,356 posts)They are all about tax cuts for the rich.
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)As an older woman with a disability, I foresee what little I get from medicaid either diminishing or disappearing at a steady pace. It's discouraging, and scary and rage provoking all at the same time. I feel like I am undergoing death by a thousand cuts.
kerry-is-my-prez
(8,133 posts)When I was a student, I made about $8,000/yr and one year was really sick, where a huge chunk of my salary went towards medical bills. I couldn't deduct it because it wasn't over a certain amount. Totally insane!
pansypoo53219
(20,984 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Simple as that really.
TrumpCare. RyanCare. Don.T.Care.
Seems like the best business I could start now is a prepaid funeral business. More people are going to die.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)If they can afford it, someone will sell it to them. If they don't have the money, then please step away from the vehicle.
Posting Anonymously
(32 posts)The U.S. has ZERO legitimacy, morally speaking. If people had half a brain, they'd be pouring into the streets to TAKE BACK their government. The fact that people are not pouring into the streets and taking back THEIR government is PROOF that people do not have half a brain. This is not rocket science...does anybody know how to move their mouth and continuously articulate RESISTANCE??? People are stupid and because they're stupid you see EXACTLY the outcome that you see. This is not rocket science!!! We have full blown fascism and, of late, we now have an avowed government sponsored goal of exterminating the poor by literally denying healthcare to the poor. This country is nuts. Resist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spanone
(135,855 posts)they have no desire to sign on to an 'ENTITLEMENT' program.....this is how they see healthcare
Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)bdamomma
(63,913 posts)in the face to all Americans. The repigs want to line their own pockets, it's all about the 1% and to hell with everyone else.
People voted for this POS. Give him chance they said??? why did they think this POS was going to do anything for them. Ha you were BS'ed 45 supporters. I hate Paul Ryan how can he sleep at night??? Karma will get them all.
People are going to die sadly this is Bannon's plan of weeding out people. The repigs are our homegrown terrorists.
babylonsister
(171,076 posts)They are now; I agree.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Mid-term elections will be suspended or fixed. They do not plan on ever relinquishing power and clearly have no fear of losing. If that were not part of their plan, they would not be openly planning to hurt 24 million Americans and create a permanent underclass.
Nobody is so politically stupid as to do this if they wanted to retain power (unless they were Louis Gohmert).
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)but................if they keep pushing.....................I will stop there. You DU'ers are smart enough to come up with a conclusion. But I am angry. All I keep on seeing is how proud Putin must be.
We need to REMOVE this fascist, oligarch regime.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Paul Ryan isn't even trying to deny it. If millions just quit being Fox News Zombies we wouldn't be in this mess. They are going to quickly find out they have once again been conned.
Progressive folks really need to show up in the next mid term....to stop this fascist plutocratic takeover before it is too late. This is as scary as I have seen, our democracy is hanging by a thread.