Fwd: Republicans Unveil Their Replacement Healthcare Plan, And It's . . . Drumroll Please . . . You're On Your Own

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Yesterday in the Senate the Republicans introduced at least part of 
their big replacement health care plan, and while deliberately still 
vague on details, the basic idea is kick all responsibility back down 
to the states, which is to say cripple the so-called Affordable Care 
Act (ACA) and replace it with NOTHING at the federal level. This is 
like, if you like your Obamacare you can keep it, after we make it 
even more expensive. 

Why are we not surprised that the shrink government and drown it in a 
bathtub crowd just wants to wash their hands of the whole health care 
thing? 

Why are we not surprised that this is all just code for let the 
corporations take over all national power? The Republicans have no 
plan, they have never had a plan, and are not interested in 
formulating a plan, other than kicking the can to someone else on a 
lower level. 

Say what you will about the ACA, and we've been saying bad things 
about it since months before it originally passed, because we saw 
what was coming, at least the numbers added up. They added up to 
protecting the fat profits of corporate health care insurers and 
providers, the so-called "stakeholders," as if the American people 
didn't have a stake in the cost of their own health care, but at 
least the numbers added up. 

All the pie in the sky Republican promises about covering more people 
for less money with lower deductibles was nothing but election 
campaigning fraud, a thermometer in every pot. They are not 
interested in allocating a dime in the federal budget to cover person 
one, even if it would end up saving the government and all of us a 
ton of money. 

Instead they are just going to rudely toss us all out in the cold, 
with the states individually relatively poorly equipped to handle 
keeping health care costs down, and with you entirely on your own and 
at the mercy of whatever the corporations can gouge out of you. 

In other words, the Republican personal responsibility replacement 
plan is your money or your life, good luck on your own! 

But it doesn't have to be that way even now. Indeed, there has never 
been a more propitious time to speak out strongly for single payer, 
Medicare For All instead. Combine the bargaining leverage of the 
federal government with the lowest health care administrative costs 
possible, which is how Medicare operates now, and we arrive at the 
only viable improvement. 

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