conservatives hate ultraconservative healthcare program they created because money is more important than human beings
the 'pro life' party, folks.
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These motherfuckers sure hate people having healthcare
Take away their health insurance paid by taxpayers ez. Also ban them from buying any private insurance
Congress should be enrolled in the base tier Medicare program and barred from buying any private insurance on top. Health insurance reform would follow within 6mo.
Congress was actually mandated to use the exchanges created by the ACA. It was an amendment proposed by a Republican, who bought the narrative that Democrats were forcing bad insurance on the American people, and would never subject themselves to it. Democrats actually thought that was a great idea and went for it.
Republicans have since railed against the amendment they proposed, claiming Democrats opted themselves out of Obamacare.
No, no, MAKE them buy private insurance. Force them to understand how completely fucked up that industry is. Regularly audit their intersections with those companies as part of their regular financial disclosures to make sure they aren’t getting a deal from their carriers for favorable legislative results.
The problem is that there are some relatively good private insurance plans out there, of you can afford them. It isn't all fucked up, just what the bottom 75% can afford.
True, but those plans are not cheap, and congresspeople, while not at all poor, don’t make all that much.
They make money somehow (probably insider trading and "lobbying"). 50% of Congress are millionaires compared to 1% or less of the general population.
They most likely have private insurance on top of their govt plan. The top tier shit where the doctor comes to you
So they're complaining about fraud perpetrated by unscrupulous private insurers and calling for more government oversight? Watch out, boys, you're dangerously close to getting it!
Too bad their proposed "solutions" are ass-backwards victim-blaming.
Grassley is turning 91 in a month. Probably mad he’s gonna die soon so he wants others to join him by not having healthcare.
That kind of evil never dies. He's a very calm, insidious type of evil. Not the rage-filled kind like trump. Hell outlive your kids, while a painting gets older and older.
What possible relevance could this 90 year old person’s opinions have on, well, anything?
The Paragon Health Institute report estimates that the number of people who enrolled in ACA coverage for this year who projected they would earn between 100% of the federal poverty level and 150% — amounts that qualify them for zero-premium plans and smaller deductibles — likely exceeds the number of people with that level of income, particularly in nine states.
It recommends several changes to the ACA, including letting the enhanced subsidies expire, increasing repayment amounts for people who fail to project their incomes correctly, and ending the Biden-backed initiative that allows very low-income people to [enroll in ACA coverage year-round] rather than having to wait for the once-a-year general open enrollment period.
The Paragon report was cited by both Grassley and the House GOP lawmakers in their letters to government overseers. It also notes what they consider a related concern: ongoing problems of unscrupulous, commission-seeking agents enrolling people in ACA coverage or switching their plans without their permission, often into highly subsidized plans.
Some critics, though, question how the Paragon analysis was done.
For instance, Paragon’s findings rely on two unrelated data sets from different years. Combining them makes many people who are eligible for subsidies appear to be ineligible, said Gideon Lukens, a senior fellow and director of research at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The analytic approach is not careful or sophisticated enough to provide accurate or even meaningful results.”
15 years ago I fucked his granddaughter in the ass while she was dressed as "pokeahotass". I would love to tell him that story to his face. Fuck that guy. What kind of psychopath is so hell bent on screwing the country that he refuses to retire and relax?
TOO OLD TO GOVERN ANYTHING
Too old to govern his own house. Let alone anybody else. I will die a happy man knowing I put my 6.5" in his granddaughters ass.
Same, tbh
Eskimo bros?
I met Grassley a a fundraiser 50 years ago. He was an idiot then.
Oh, are they already done approving the fiscal budget for October 1st? Everything is appropriated? We have time for other bullshit?
Given how opposed to healthcare conservatives are, we should expand Medicare to all Americans, call it "Lib-Care" and allow the conservative shitbags to opt the fuck out. Let conservatives figure out their own health situation.
Conservatives are a deadly cancer of inhumanity, oppression and death. May their cure come swiftly.