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    Obama's statement on the Senate TrumpCare Bill is good

    Our politics are divided. They have been for a long time. And while I know that division makes it difficult to listen to Americans with whom we disagree, that’s what we need to do today.

    I recognize that repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has become a core tenet of the Republican Party. Still, I hope that our Senators, many of whom I know well, step back and measure what’s really at stake, and consider that the rationale for action, on health care or any other issue, must be something more than simply undoing something that Democrats did.

    We didn’t fight for the Affordable Care Act for more than a year in the public square for any personal or political gain – we fought for it because we knew it would save lives, prevent financial misery, and ultimately set this country we love on a better, healthier course.

    Nor did we fight for it alone. Thousands upon thousands of Americans, including Republicans, threw themselves into that collective effort, not for political reasons, but for intensely personal ones – a sick child, a parent lost to cancer, the memory of medical bills that threatened to derail their dreams.

    And you made a difference. For the first time, more than ninety percent of Americans know the security of health insurance. Health care costs, while still rising, have been rising at the slowest pace in fifty years. Women can’t be charged more for their insurance, young adults can stay on their parents’ plan until they turn 26, contraceptive care and preventive care are now free. Paying more, or being denied insurance altogether due to a preexisting condition – we made that a thing of the past.

    We did these things together. So many of you made that change possible.

    At the same time, I was careful to say again and again that while the Affordable Care Act represented a significant step forward for America, it was not perfect, nor could it be the end of our efforts – and that if Republicans could put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we made to our health care system, that covers as many people at less cost, I would gladly and publicly support it.
    That remains true. So I still hope that there are enough Republicans in Congress who remember that public service is not about sport or notching a political win, that there’s a reason we all chose to serve in the first place, and that hopefully, it’s to make people’s lives better, not worse.

    But right now, after eight years, the legislation rushed through the House and the Senate without public hearings or debate would do the opposite. It would raise costs, reduce coverage, roll back protections, and ruin Medicaid as we know it. That’s not my opinion, but rather the conclusion of all objective analyses, from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which found that 23 million Americans would lose insurance, to America’s doctors, nurses, and hospitals on the front lines of our health care system.

    The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill. It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America. It hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else. Those with private insurance will experience higher premiums and higher deductibles, with lower tax credits to help working families cover the costs, even as their plans might no longer cover pregnancy, mental health care, or expensive prescriptions. Discrimination based on pre-existing conditions could become the norm again. Millions of families will lose coverage entirely.

    Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family – this bill will do you harm. And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation.

    I hope our Senators ask themselves – what will happen to the Americans grappling with opioid addiction who suddenly lose their coverage? What will happen to pregnant mothers, children with disabilities, poor adults and seniors who need long-term care once they can no longer count on Medicaid? What will happen if you have a medical emergency when insurance companies are once again allowed to exclude the benefits you need, send you unlimited bills, or set unaffordable deductibles? What impossible choices will working parents be forced to make if their child’s cancer treatment costs them more than their life savings?

    To put the American people through that pain – while giving billionaires and corporations a massive tax cut in return – that’s tough to fathom. But it’s what’s at stake right now. So it remains my fervent hope that we step back and try to deliver on what the American people need.

    That might take some time and compromise between Democrats and Republicans. But I believe that’s what people want to see. I believe it would demonstrate the kind of leadership that appeals to Americans across party lines. And I believe that it’s possible – if you are willing to make a difference again. If you’re willing to call your members of Congress. If you are willing to visit their offices. If you are willing to speak out, let them and the country know, in very real terms, what this means for you and your family.

    After all, this debate has always been about something bigger than politics. It’s about the character of our country – who we are, and who we aspire to be. And that’s always worth fighting for.
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      Plan to introduce single payer health insurance in California is shot down by California Democrats.

      According to the top California Democrats, the current priority must be stopping Trump taking ACA away.

      California Democrats must think that people are thick as shit.

      edit: California Democratic House speaker Anthony Rendon gets money from the pharmaceutical industry.
      Last edited by anton pulisov; 25-06-2017, 09:41.

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        Fuckin Democrats man.

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          Supreme Court shows first sign of caving on Muslim ban. Not good.

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            We're going to miss having Scalia around, aren't we?

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              Like missing a pus-filled boil.

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                Not to discount how bad this is, but at least Kennedy didn't retire.

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                  Originally posted by antoine polus View Post
                  Plan to introduce single payer health insurance in California is shot down by California Democrats.

                  According to the top California Democrats, the current priority must be stopping Trump taking ACA away.

                  California Democrats must think that people are thick as shit.

                  edit: California Democratic House speaker Anthony Rendon gets money from the pharmaceutical industry.
                  Rendon represents the district where I grew up. My mom is pissed off.

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                    If that's true, then we are completely fucked.

                    CBO says 22 million will lose coverage. One would think that people would notice.

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                      And as per the above from Antoine, the Dems at State and National level are enabling the Republicans to pull just such a scam off, by vetoing attempts to improve Obamacare at least in California. Spineless fucktards.

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                        It's not even that complicated.

                        They are terrified that their funders will turn on them and find new toadies if they don't deliver the massive tax cuts they've promised.

                        An interesting long piece from Frank Rich on the Trump/Nixon parallels.

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                          There's a conflict between those neoliberals who want health care to be totally DarwinIan and those Congresspersons in states that are sufficiently marginal for them to squirm at the thought of losing votes. I am not sure that this circle has yet been squared enough for this to pass. If it does pass, however, it's an act of mass murder.

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                            McConnell doesn't have the votes, and is delaying action until after the recess.

                            Satchmo, I would argue that the number of true Darwinians is quite small. Rand Paul, who is the truest of such believers, is also against the Senate bill (as are the Club for Growth and the House Freedon Caucus, who don't find it sufficiently cruel)

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                              These are the same people who'd happily let your house burn down because you didn't pay the Firefighter Tax.

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                                Sean Spicer bans cameras from press briefing.

                                Fearless White House press corps responds by meekly complying, before expressing their disagreement on Twitter afterwards.

                                The revolution will not be televised, because somebody said so.

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                                  Is Trump really going to take on Russia and Iran over Syria?

                                  He seems to have been played by the Saudis over Qatar.

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                                    https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/...-Red-Line.html

                                    Seymour Hersh on the 58 cruise missiles in response to the 'gas' attack.

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                                      Poor Sy

                                      Turfed out by the New Yorker and then the LRB, now reduced to Welt am Sonntag (as amplified ny RT and Sputnik).

                                      And all while still relying on the same "intelligence community source" who has led him down the garden path before.

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                                        As opposed to the official intelligence sources that brought us Saddam's yellowcake, Prague Al-Quaeda meetings and mobile weapons labs? Hersh being cut from publications like the New Yorker tells you as much about their editorial slants than about his journalistic integrity.

                                        You're siding with the likes of Nikki Haley and the worst elements within the Trump administration, clinging to the Assad Khan Sheikhoun chemical bombing canard, and itching for an all-out proxy war in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. They are only ratcheting up tensions now because the situation on the ground is actually stabilizing with ISIS on the run.

                                        So now they're accusing the Assad regime of a pre-crime against humanity, setting up the stage for future NATO mass bombings of Syrian infrastructure and population centers with depleted uranium.

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                                          Served?

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                                            "Please just stop. This isn't normal and it's beneath the dignity of your office."

                                            Dignity and Trump aren't even in adjacent galaxies. Haven't these people been listening for the past year?

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                                              Yet another case of trump saying/tweeting something "outrageous" that acts as a smokescreen to distract from the more pivotal issue at hand, in this case the evil, so-called health care bill.

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                                                I'm up late enough to be watching Anderson Cooper here. He's not sparing the head of state's blushes.

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                                                  Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                                  No, that was Mike Huckabee

                                                  Like Huckabee, Sekulow has a regular show on wingnut radio
                                                  I noticed that he has a TV show too, in the early am, on the religious nuts section of cable.

                                                  He also works for The American Center for Law & Justice.

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                                                    Yeah, and screw this meek shall inherit the earth shit.

                                                    Scumbag.

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