He will get the boot and all GOP sins are on his head come 2018.

But, it's not the voters concerns that matter...it's the concerns of the big money donors that most Republicans are thinking about!

Let's face a simple fact, Republicans both politicians and those that vote for them would sell their souls to watch "those people", suffer!!!

and Putin axes Health Care.


Republicans and Trump may be using the Putin/Russian model for Health care. I guess oligarchs don't like high taxes either.



https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-health-care-is-dying-a-slow-death-45839


Changes to the Russian national health care system have proceeded according to an obscure logic and led to very mixed results for medical personnel — and sometimes to lethal results for patients.

The authorities wanted to optimize and modernize the system by boosting the quality of medical care and making it more accessible. Instead, medical care has become inaccessible for a large part of the population, especially in rural areas: doctors labor under increased workloads, thereby compromising patient care; mortality in hospitals has increased; general morbidity is on the rise; and doctors are inundated with paperwork.

According to the State Statistics Service, from 2005 to 2013 the number of health facilities in rural areas fell by 75 percent, from 8,249 to 2,085. That number includes a 95 percent drop in the number of district hospitals, from 2,631 to only 124, and a 65 percent decline in the number of local health clinics, from 7,404 to 2,561.

According to Audit Chamber official Alexander Filipenko, 17,500 towns and villages now have no medical infrastructure whatsoever. Regional administrations originally planned to slash the number of rural health facilities and then convert them into offices staffed with general practitioners. They have already taken the first step, but even in many cities the second stage of the plan remains unfulfilled.

In place of small clinics and hospitals with ancient medical equipment, residents of the provinces were supposed to have gained access to treatment in hospitals with modern facilities. Instead, they were simply cut off from medical services entirely.

Now the residents of 11,000 population centers must travel more than 20 kilometers to reach the nearest doctor, but 35 percent of those towns and villages have no public transportation and almost 900 of them have no affiliation with any rural clinic or doctor's office at all.

The Audit Chamber reports that some regions even lack mobile medical teams to provide care in remote areas. When local train service was canceled to many smaller towns in the winter of 2013-14, residents of tiny Novosokolniki, Nevel and Opochka in the southern Pskov region literally lay down on the railroad tracks to force passing trains to stop and carry them to cities with hospitals.

In the cold logic of the accountant, the number of hospitals and clinics is "optimized" in order to cut costs. With all attention focused on the bottom line, nobody worries about the increased mortality, longer periods of illness, shorter healthy life spans and rise in disabilities that have resulted.

This seems like an exact replay of the previous bill that never came up for a vote.
Nothing has improved on the "new" bill, it stinks even worse than the other one did.

They're just wasting time, getting nothing done as usual, and meanwhile the ACA has to be fixed.
It's not going to last forever - there must be changes made on the ACA this year if anybody wants to save it.
(Fun fact: They don't)

Maybe the Democrat Senators can get an amendment added on some other bill that will "save" the ACA at least temporarily. Once we get a majority in the House or Senate we can go to work on a permanent fix.