Exactly. And if the cost wasn't so high, I'd be all over letting this thing pass and dragging the GOP down the hole with it when it craters. But in good conscience I can't go that far. Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter what I think, anyway.
This bill is not a healthcare bill. At its core, it’s a tax cut.
This bill does the following:
Cuts $772 billion from Medicaid for the poor, disabled and elderly.
Cuts $408 billion from insurance subsidies for the working poor
It replaces that $1.2 trillion in cuts with a meaningless $107 billion in spending to reduce premiums.
It then removes $210 billion in insurance penalties paid by companies and individuals
And the big one, cuts taxes for the top 2% of wage earners by $541 billion.
This at is core cuts 1.2 trillion in healthcare for the poor, working poor, disabled and elderly in order to give a $541 billion tax cut to the wealthiest Americans.
This isn’t going to help access to healthcare, that is a contemptable lie. It’s going gut healthcare and give a tax break to the wealthy.