Cory Booker: Republican healthcare plan will cost American lives It will mean death
Source: Share Blue
Republicans in the House of Representatives are preparing for a morning vote on the latest, more cruel version of their healthcare plan, one which strips away protections for preexisting conditions, yet exempts themselves from their own bill. While they may just squeak through with a razor-thin margin, this is an awfully big risk for them to take on an unpopular bill that has little chance of passing the U.S. Senate.
In fact, according to MSNBCs Chris Hayes, some Democrats see this House vote as something of a political gift that will, at best, hang a poisonous vote around Republicans necks for no reason. But when Hayes asked Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) about that political calculus, Booker delivered a moving and sobering reminder of the stakes involved:
BOOKER: So screw the politics. This is about people. This is about whats morally right. This is about what we stand for. This is a president who has lied to people, folks in red states, red counties who passionately want to keep their health care, who were promised better health care, more access, something better than the Affordable Care Act. Well, this is clearly not just worse. Its a death knell. I dont mean to be melodramatic about this, but Ive seen where people have to wait to get their health care til the emergency room. This will cost American lives if it ever becomes law. This will mean death, pain, and suffering to peoples families. So Im not interested in the politics. This is something that my colleagues, people I respect across the aisle, they just cant support. For Gods sake, for the sake of our country and what we stand for, they cannot pass this piece of legislation.
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YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)I still don't believe they have the votes until I see it. But it would not get through the Senate anyway unless they undermine democracy even more.
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George II
(67,782 posts)...you can find out from the FEC website.
NO "health-related corporations help fund him" - that would be illegal and anyone around here should know that!
I'm so tired of these continued attacks on DEMOCRATS. If not Booker, who would you want as the Senator from New Jersey?
gone
bucolic_frolic
(43,163 posts)The GOP ought to love the 'morally right' angle
msongs
(67,406 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Matthew 25:42-44
42 For I was hungry, and ye fed me not; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.