Wow.. I'm so glad he wants to kill everyone. At this rate people who live off the governments money because of mental disorders and physical problems including health won't even be able to afford their own rent. So glad we have such a caring and wonderful loser in office.

Sooooooooooooo much fun.

Yup we are one of the luckiest countries in the world. I still don't know how nothing is being done to stop him from screwing the people or this country over. But I know it's hard to do.

Okay, time for an update about health care.

The GOP finally released their plan. I'm still trying to figure it out (thank god I live in Massachusetts where we'll still have health care if this goes through) but it's not good, especially for working class people and people on Medicare.

This article is about the tax credits that would replace health care subsidies and government subsidized health care plans.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... &te=1&_r=0

Here's a quote:

"Obamacare's subsidies were structured to limit how much low- and middle-income Americans could be asked to pay for health insurance. Under the G.O.P. proposal, many of the people whose tax credits would fall sharply would be likely to end up uninsured. For people with few resources, a gap of several thousands of dollars between their tax credit and the cost of coverage would be impossible to make up."

Thanks for the link I will surley read this through. God this is getting ridiculous.

"getting" ridiculous?

Sigh.

I honestly have no idea what to say about the new craptastic shit going on with the health care. There are so many people that will be screwed over. I just hope alot of the elderly have enough money to support their insurance in the high cost areas that article was talking about. I just hope others aren't going to be screwed over. No one should to be honest.

You can take some small comfort in knowing that the current "plan" (more like a poorly thrown together plot that was hastily scribbled on the back of a used bar napkin) is so balls-to-the-wall insane even conservatives are lining up to shoot it down. It's not likely to pass in it's current form, and stands a very good chance of being kicked down in the Senate if not the House.

Ah that sounds amazing. Thank you for telling me that Saokymo. I saw on a newspaper headline that it was set to fail but wasn't too sure if it was truly meant as that. Glad to hear that it's really not being too backed by anyone.

Yeah, but the problem is that what the conservatives in the Senate want to do is get rid of the Medicaid expansion immediately and not do the tax credits. So while I have hope that this plan will never actually pass, I'm worried that in order to get the votes Republican leadership might actually make the plan worse. They need the conservative wing of the party to vote for the plan, which the conservative wing might not do if the plan includes tax credits to help pay for insurance and a continuation of the Medicaid expansion until 2020. So in order to get the conservatives to vote for the plan, they're considering getting rid of the tax credits and moving up the end date for the Medicaid expansion to 2018.

(Under the current proposal, 22 million people could lose health insurance. That number goes up by millions if Medicaid expansion is ended)

So the conservative resistance will either tank the bill, or the GOP leadership will give in and the bill will get a lot scarier. I'm still trying to figure all this out (its complicated and health policy isn't something I'm familiar with) but if those two things are gotten rid of I don't see what we're left with, really.