Here's another question that was never asked during the HC "debate"...

[Wounded Bear]

how many jobs in the HC sector were saved by saving Obamacare?

Had to be in the 100,000's I think.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. I drive around all over the mid-US.

Every city, small or large, seems to be building a new hospital. If I see cranes working on a building, 7 out of 10 are hospitals.

Those developers must have been on as many pins and needles lately as any of us.

Danger J Trump must go.

[exboyfil]

3. I wonder how many enthusiastically pulled the lever

for Trump and the GOP.

As far as Trump. If Pence had been in there, I honestly think we would have had a House type repeal already. If anything Trump hurt the GOP.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Concur

Pence=

[exboyfil]

2. The House plan that would have taken $100b/yr

out of the system would have cost on the order of one million direct jobs. That was an early criticism I brought up that eventually was reported on in the media. It concerns me, beyond the fact of impact to individual's healthcare, because my daughter is graduating from Nursing school in less than two weeks. We have ramped up nursing school enrollments in this state in anticipation of money being available to treat those in need. It is going to create a glut of nurses especially if something like the House plan comes to fruition. The groups being taxed really are the only ones who have the money for that care. You are not going to get it from the 50 somethings or the states.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Another point that never seems to get brought up

What the hell is going to happen if a highly contagious plague hits the country and vast numbers of people are left without health insurance or the means to get treated? Now, even if you want to play the Republican game of "hate on the poor" and blame them for their own doom, what about the fact that if poor, uninsured people get infected and not treated, they will still exist long enough to infect more people, an outcome that could have been avoided if they could have gotten themselves somewhere to be quarantined, treated. And while we're talking about potential plagues, let's try to ignore the fact that Trump is wanting to cut the CDC budget.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I've been pointing that out...

The O'Care repeal and Repub efforts to defund NIH and CDC are nothing if not insane. With modern communications and travel, we are hours away from some deadly contagion instead of weeks like we were in years past.