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(52,331 posts)
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 10:23 PM Jun 2017

it's not Obamacare that they're repealing. it's medicaid!

We should call it the Medicaid repeal bill, because that's what they're really destroying.

The whole thing is a major fraud. It's not Obamacare repeal, it's Medicaid repeal.

They've hated that program since its inception and they're using the Obamacare repeal/replace rhetoric as a cover to destroy Medicaid.

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mindem

(1,580 posts)
1. You're right,
Thu Jun 22, 2017, 10:39 PM
Jun 2017

and I still say that if they get away with this and pay no consequences that Social Security will be next. They have an attitude now that screams "try to stop us". Repukes have a genuine sense of disdain for the American people.

leftstreet

(36,116 posts)
20. ...
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 09:08 AM
Jun 2017

Medic'are' rather than Medic'aid'

Trump's avid supporters would be perfectly happy to think 'those people' might lose their Medicaid. Not so much if it was their own Medicare

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
5. #WealthyCare is a big tax cut bill, a TRILLION dollar heist
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 12:22 AM
Jun 2017

and the cuts to health care is just incidental to taking the money away from the vast majority of people to funnel it to the very richest people.

Reinstating slavery has to be an incremental process of people will rebel.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
11. Trumps tax cut is estimated at $21 MILLION, about a dollar for everyone he throws off healthcare.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 01:43 AM
Jun 2017

Members of his cabinet likewise cash in by the multiple millions each.


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And, they are only just getting started!




Moostache

(9,897 posts)
6. They want it all...and they are going to get it because of stupid Americans...
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 12:27 AM
Jun 2017

Today...Medicaid.
Tomorrow...Medicare.
Next up? Social Security...
In the hole? Labor Laws and minimum wages...
The kicker? 40 hour work weeks and weekends...

They want it all, and they are shameless about getting it.
Trump has emboldened them to sink to new lows with no fear...

Thank you, to all those motherfuckers who voted against their interests to "make liburls mad"....you fuckers have blood on your hands that should be used to shame your families for the next 5 generations. I hope the LOLs were worth it you soulless fuckers, may you all rot in hell.

 

lancelyons

(988 posts)
8. i agree.. also the Republicans should have enough courage to do exactly what they want to do.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 01:03 AM
Jun 2017

They want to completely shutdown government entitlement programs like medicaid and welfare and have the government only enact rules and legislation that helps companies, corporations and wealthy pool.

Azathoth

(4,611 posts)
13. Won't make a shred of difference to GOP voters
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 02:44 AM
Jun 2017

They hate Medicaid for the same reason they hate food stamps: it's an elaborate socialist conspiracy to take their hard-earned taxes and give it to the brown people. The fact many of them are on Medicaid and food stamps themselves because they don't make enough to pay taxes in the first place doesn't enter into their thinking.

Vinca

(50,310 posts)
15. If this happens, many of the red states are in for a huge shock. All the blue state money
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 08:03 AM
Jun 2017

in the world won't save them if there's no coverage to provide. The myth is that Medicaid serves inner city people who are too lazy to work and not the right color. WRONG. Trump humpers better start remodeling a room for Grandma because the nursing home isn't going to want her anymore.

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