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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 07:57 PM Feb 2017

GOP Plan Says There Is Only Health Care For Only Half The Population. REST GO WITHOUT.

If you examine the GOP plan and the rhetoric you must conclude that they are saying that we do not plan to have everyone have health care. I know one insurance person who has said that the present system is not sustainable. He is a staunch GOPPER who thinks that only people who can afford to pay for their own insurance and health care should be able to have care.

The system has only so much capacity. The GOP views health care resources like a life boat with limited supplies. Only so many people can be sustained. A choice has to be made to throw so many people overboard. And Ryan and company are making the choice to leave much of the population behind.

So sick people and people with limited means will just have to go without. They plan to exile Americans from the system based on economics and value to society. And such a plan also includes veterans because they are too much of a drag on the system. And they have outlasted their usefulness economically.

What McConnel, Ryan, conservatives and the GOP want IS NOT THE KIND OF AMERICA WE WANT.

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GOP Plan Says There Is Only Health Care For Only Half The Population. REST GO WITHOUT. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2017 OP
And we can't tax the highest income levels the way we did back in the 50s and 60s Squinch Feb 2017 #1
The Rethugs will never be able to have a constituent meeting. roamer65 Feb 2017 #2

Squinch

(50,934 posts)
1. And we can't tax the highest income levels the way we did back in the 50s and 60s
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 08:05 PM
Feb 2017

(though that is what the shriveled white men hark back to as the golden age) at 80 and 90% to pay for decent healthcare.

We can't tax the billionaires that way because it's just too hard for them to live without that second or third billion.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
2. The Rethugs will never be able to have a constituent meeting.
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 08:17 PM
Feb 2017

That 50 percent will hound them till they are voted out or resign.

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