Kurt Eichenwald twitter storm about ACA

[flamingdem]

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[BSdetect]

1. And this is the greatest country

Not even close.

Pathetic health cover compared to every other place.

[KittyWampus]

2. Good analogy. Health insurance legislation w/o mandate is car without an engine.

[oasis]

3. GOP "smoke and mirrors" healthcare proposal. nt

[ffr]

4. I know one of those blue collar RW'ers who bums off the system when he gets sick

Has been talked into paying the penalty for not carrying ACA insurance by RW'ers not looking out for his best interests, in that they're using him and his skills, w/o offering him any retirement. Once his skills are no longer needed, they're going to dump him like all the others who came before.

He thinks that's funny. You can't make this stuff up.

[DK504]

5. And thinks he isn't bilking taxpayers.

[colorado_ufo]

6. Gentle Reader, look ahead! Failure is exactly what they want.

They can just declare the whole thing a failed experiment and go back to the old system of giving insurance companies enormous profits. Which of course will guarantee them to get enormous profits.

[Fast Walker 52]

8. this plan is halfway there, really

sad thing is most insurance plans were doing well under ACA. But greedy is as greedy does.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. the GOP plan is complete bullshit as we knew it would be

we HAVE to push back on this crap.

WHY THE FUCK DOES THE GOP HATE AMERICANS SO MUCH?

[pangaia]

10. With Ryan a lot of it is about jesus...

and sex.... or rather NO sex....

[Fast Walker 52]

15. yeah, Jesus was all about hating the poor, wasn't he?

[pangaia]

16. Don't even get me started...

[SunSeeker]

9. The GOP death panel has just signed a death warrant for 45,000 Americans each year.

And untold misery for the rest of us.

[erronis]

11. Is it just me? I'm supposed to click those links to a bunch of tweets?

Unless I'm missing something, something's missing. Like an overview and some context.

Of course not knowing who the subject matter is doesn't help either.

This isn't good reporting, it's just collecting and parroting.

[emulatorloo]

13. Eichenwald's a reporter from Newsweek who did excellent work on Trump's shady business

practices and financial ties to Russian Oligarchs. I would expect he'll have a full article on GOP Healthcare. His work has been cited here a lot, always worth reading. Hope that helps.

You should be able to see the full tweets in the OP. So you don't need to click any links.

[erronis]

17. Thank you, emulatorloo - I had disabled some javascript (uMatrix)

That made the embedded tweets not render. And thanks for the reference to Eichenwald - I did look him up after my post.

[emulatorloo]

19. Any time!

Not a fan of JavaScript here either, but have finally surrendered to it.

[More_Cowbell]

12. You should be able to see the tweets

I see "link to tweet" for a second and then they all resolve to the actual tweets. There might be something in your browser setting that keeps you from seeing them.

[mcar]

14. K&R

[Cha]

18. Mahalo for these Tweet from KE,