Healthcare Battle Exposes Republican Bigotry

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Healthcare Battle Exposes Republican Bigotry

In the one-sided battle to pass a supposed healthcare bill, Republicans have proven their bigotry and lack of concern for 99% of the US population. GOP members if both houses of Congress have claimed “repeal & replace” is why they were elected. The problem is that the voters who elected them weren't choosing based on any actual facts.

Many who sing the R&R chorus say Obamacare must be replaced but when asked about the Affordable Care Act, say it’s fine—has problems, but they’re all for it. Partisan bigotry along with the racism surrounding much of the opposition to our last president.

Mitch McConnell’s whip, John Cornyn, was on Meet the Press and kept pushing the idea that Democrats refused to work with GOP to structure the bill, ignoring the fact that they not only weren't consulted, but were kept out of Senate's secretive discussions. He also claimed, as have others, that Democrats haven’t offered any suggestions. Blatant falsehood — all Democratic amendments in the House were summarily shot down and they were shut out of Senate confabs.

The simple fact is that Republicans are using their admitted animosity to anything Barak Obama did to further their agenda of abrogating federal responsibilities to “promote the general welfare." They have long sought to increase presidential power while seeking to supposedly return sovereignty to the states. The actual goal is to gut federal control of regulations that prevent corporations from bilking the people and befouling the environment all in the name of the almighty dollar —unfettered avaricious capitalism. Financial inequality, much increased since Reagan began the renewed attack on capitalist restraints, is apparently of no concern. And the inability of working & middle classes to afford things like health insurance and basic medical care seems to follow, for Republicans, the Scrooge mandate: let them die and decrease the surplus population.

The tax-cut-for-the-rich House bill and the let-em-die Senate bill wouldn't be necessary if the bigotry against something named after Obama wasn't a driving force. It would be more in line with actually representing constituents’ interests to explain to them that the ACA most agree has helped is actually the dreaded Obamacare and that fixing it is of far more importance than pushing their bigoted partisan attack on our last president by pushing a failed meme of repeal-&-replace.