The Lord of the Ramp and his malignant
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) responded to the brief by saying there is “no moral excuse for the Trump Administration’s disastrous efforts to take away Americans’ health care." Dismantling the ACA would leave more than 23 million people without healthcare plans, according to a recent analysis by the liberal-leaning think tank Center for American Progress.
“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” Pelosi, who on Wednesday filed a bill to expand the ACA, said in a statement.
The Trump brief is about what you'd expect -- pure chewy, malicious wingnut. But don't just take our word for it:The administration’s brief was filed in support of a challenge to the ACA by a coalition of Republican attorneys general, following through on Trump’s pledge last month to overturn President Obama’s landmark healthcare legislation.
Here’s the DOJ plea just filed in SCOTUS urging immediate invalidation of the entire ACA. It’s legally crazy, morally indefensible, and politically bizarre. In other words, pure Trumpian BS.https://t.co/UcJsvwPLnm— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 26, 2020
While failing in his response to the pandemic, the Trump is fighting to take away people's health insurance. When he says there are no cases of COVID-19 if you don't test for the virus, it's not a figure of speech. It's his Supreme Court brief. https://t.co/wcBYXKdsFa— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 26, 2020
The Trump administration just filed a brief with the Supreme Court calling for the ACA to be overturned. The president has not proposed a replacement plan. Trying to repeal the ACA, along with the response to COVID-19, will define President Trump on health care in the election.— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) June 26, 2020
The Supreme Court won't hear the case challenging the existence of the health law until next term (probably before the election but there's no date yet) Here's what the case is about: https://t.co/t2lI4ObfvG 2/— julie rovner (@jrovner) June 26, 2020
Regardless of when and however the Court eventually decides, this will be the main issue for the November election, much as it was in 2018. The lines have been drawn and this issue alone is enough to make clear which party is trying to protect the general health and welfare of our country, and which one is not.
Their evil knows no bounds. And that's what it is... pure evil.
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing: why do it now? Politically it's a hot potato because eliminating it leaves the Republicans standing there with their faces hanging out. They have zero plans of their own for a new healthcare structure, so they wouldn't have a replacement ready to go immediately. Just dumping the ACA without a replacement ready to go would be a disaster.
ReplyDeleteWho is behind this? Trump would be the first guess since his goal as president was to remove all traces of Obama's terms in office, and he's been helped by Mitch the Bitch to power through that agenda. But it's a no-win proposition at this point. The election is coming right up and the pandemic is raging across the country like wildfire. Dumping healthcare would enrage the population now and cost the Republicans a lot of support and possibly some of their seats.
A final “ fuck you” to Obama? Seems pretty stupid to me.
bluzdude -- it's their brand.
ReplyDeletedonnah -- if it's stupid, it probably came from DJT, a.k.a. Lord of the Ramp, where Obama lives rent-free in his "brain." A GOP Senate aide was quoted in today's WaPo as saying, “In a sea of stupid decisions this administration makes on a daily basis, this one stands out.”
Folks have no idea how good the ACA has been to them. The bill includes little things that have big impact, like greatly reduced returns to the hospital after surgery. Both my daughter's benefited from the ACA between college and age 26 when their employers' did not offer health care. My wife and I benefited directly when I was fired when over 60. COBRA was over $14,000/year; ACA with subsidies was a little over $3,000. Not having a replacement is a feature, not a bug. Folks again having to buy shit policies with limits to liability and tons of preexisting condition exclusions is a crooked insurance company dream.
ReplyDeleteMart -- "Shit policies with limits to liability and tons of preexisting condition exclusions" -- also known as Trumpcare!
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