There's So Much Wrong With Trumpcare That It's Hard To Know Where To Start

This past week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued its analysis of the Trumpcare bill passed by the House on May 4. The short version is that 23 million fewer Americans will have health coverage a decade from now, thanks to people whose fundamental principle when it comes to developing a plan for health care is this: Obama sucks. Additionally, the federal Treasury will see a gain of about $12 billion per year over those 10 years as a result of Zombie Trumpcare. Looking at it one way, this bill would mean the government will save a lousy $521 per person, per year, from all the people who’ll be losing coverage. Wouldn’t you rather our country spent that money on covering those people? And of course many of them will still get sick, get injured, and, unfortunately, worse. Either they’ll go without proper care, get care too late at an emergency room — with the costs being passed on to everyone else anyway often enough — or just die. The price of such developments cannot be fully measured in dollars. Essentially, the bill is a massive shift of wealth from those at or below the median income to those in the top couple of percent. When you think about it, doesn’t that pretty much describe every Republican proposal that has anything to do with money? It contains a tax cut — mostly going to the very wealthy — of almost two-thirds of $1 trillion, while stripping almost $1 trillion from Medicaid as well as one-quarter of $1 ...
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