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By David Futrelle
BAM! Two more Republicans have announced they’ll be voting no on moving forward on Trumpcare, for a total of four. So it looks like the bill is DONE.
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— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 18, 2017
DISCUSS! Celebrate! No trolls, Trump fans allowed!
UPDATE: McConnell is now pushing REPEAL ONLY. Seems like a desperate move, but we need to keep calling and protesting!
McConnell is moving on from Repeal & Replace to… Repeal & Suffer.
The battle to #ProtectOurCare continues!
🔥☎️🔥: https://t.co/4hAUAAmYTE pic.twitter.com/3qXigBoFjW— 5 Calls 🇺🇸 (@make5calls) July 18, 2017
FTFY 🙂
This celebration is premature. The bill is not dead in the water. These senators will be bribed until they agree to vote for it, like what the revised bill is doing with Alaska and its senator who’s voiced her opposition.
McConnell will not stop until he gets what he wants.
Thank goodness, for now. Stake it in the heart, sever the head and incinerate the corpse until not even ashes remain. Is it too much to ask for the politicians that be to stop trying to fucking murder my aunt and I? Just because she has a physical ailment and I a mental ailment doesn’t mean we don’t deserve to live.
@Tosca; Chaos made Flesh, Servant of the Purring Jew
I wish you the best of wishes to your heath.
Honestly I don’t trust republicans enough to not completely screw this up. People thought that House bill was dead and then it suddenly was passed. I get the odd feeling McConnell is trying to repeat that. But you can practically smell the desperation form Mcturtle at this point because his time for screwing America over is almost at it’s end. I just hope that the Koch’s can’t do that constitutional amendment stuff they are doing. Hopefully with the repeal going down the tax stuff they had planned goes with it thus showing the Kochs have less power than they thought.
While I have next to no real information about this the republicans could face their biggest challenge yet. Reince Preibus was possibly at Dumbass Jr.’s little treason meeting. If there is concrete proof he was there the republican party is in much more serious danger.
Holy crap. I thought loss of coverage was a valid reason to get an exception and be able to sign up for new insurance outside the yearly window (which, wtf even is the purpose of locking you in for a year? I thought we loved capitalism and celebrated competition or whatever?). Maybe that’s only if you lose coverage for certain approved reasons? I know when I was in college I opted to use their plan but they dropped it mid-year and I had to fill out some paperwork to get coverage through the market.
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Every statement Trump makes on how things will totally work in politics just brings Abridged Yami Yugi to mind. “Kaiba, I’m sure on some planet your strategy is considered powerful. Your mistake was, this is Earth.“
If it’s been more than 60 days since last coverage, and no “qualifying exceptions”, you’ll have to contact the Marketplace Call Center at 1-800-318-2596. There are exceptions for complicated issues that might include what happened to you.
I apologize if this is something you’ve tried already. The online system for working out “when you can get a special enrollment period” can be wrong.
I hate the “you couldn’t afford the insurance, so we take it away until next year” issue. These things are mostly going to be for low-income people, who may not have enough money to easily be “good at finances”, and punishing them with having to deal with insurable illness at the full price is just adding insult to injury.
As far as I’m concerned, it ain’t dead until the Dems retake control of either the House, Senate and/or presidency.
I’m optimistic.
Part of what made it possible for the House to pass the bill at all is that they published a total mess under the assumption that the Senate could fix it. This means that the Senate now has a much harder job to do, because they need to do someone else’s homework as well as their own.
If they were competent and evil, the Senate Republicans could do this. If they were greedy and evil they could be bribed into doing it. However, they’re a particular form of clownish pants-on-head evil, which makes it unlikely that they could do their own homework, let alone someone else’s.
I don’t want to jinx it, but I think this one may be that sweetest form of victory: the one your opponent handed you through their own incompetence.
Four Republicans isn’t a lot but, well, it’s enough and that’s a good thing…for the time being.
*crawls out of hole*
Hell yeah !
This is a fuckin’ relief.
Also, Scildfreja and her Fluttershy gifs are back 😀
My day is made, and it’s barely noon. I’d celebrate right now but I’m trying to pass as civilized these days, so I just hope nothing bad will happen between now and 4:20.
I have this bump near my vagina, and it hurts!
Sinkable John, it’s good to see you. Any day you’re around is a civilised day.
@Aussiesmurf
Condolences on The Lump. I hope it’s all clear now?
I’m making inroads into the NHS at the moment, with antidepressant/antianxiety medication and treatment with a clinical psychiatrist, as well as assessment for autism. In the last two years I’ve had physio for a back injury, a constant supply of a variety of painkillers and antidepressants for free, and counselling. I’ve also had two eye tests and new glasses. I can’t imagine how much this would cost if I lived in the US. It hasn’t cost me anything, because of the benefits I’m on I get my prescriptions and eye tests free, the two pairs of glasses I’ve had to buy have come to a total of £30. My current pair cost a tenner. When I was working I struggled to pay for my medication, optician’s appointments and glasses, because I was on a low income. Now I can’t work at all, I’m in a marginally better situation in terms of being able to get medication free, and my optician’s appointments.
I’m poor, and I’d be dead without the free healthcare I get. I couldn’t afford health insurance unless I stopped eating. I know that I’m not the only person in this situation, it’s a common enough situation unfortunately. Those of us fortunate to live in countries where healthcare is free or low cost should be fighting to protect these services.
I hope that one day the US government sees sense and provides universal free healthcare so that people don’t die because they can’t afford treatment and care. I hope this is the start to the turn around. I know that’s optimistic, but I am a naturally optimistic person and hope fore the best for everyone.
@Tosca
I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Tosca: Sorry about the Lump, glad treatment is going well.
JS: Sorry about the kidney stone. Husband’s second stone, this year, resulted in two ER visits and hospitalization to have the stone shot with a laser. On the second ER visit, the triage guy put him down as ten out of ten pain without husband having to say anything. Husband then saw a doctor who looked at husband’s xray and said “Three millimeters! Not so bad, huh?” As it happened, the stone was so wodged in there that it wouldn’t have passed on its own. Luckily we live in Massachusetts (thanks, Mitt!). Nobody should have to put up with that pain and possible damage through worrying about paying for medical care.
For those who are not familiar with kidney stones, the aftereffects of having one shot with a laser include peeing blood for days, and that is far, far preferable to the stone. My poor husband has gout as well. Seems unfair.
Always double tap
@abars01
This is my stance as well.
Remain ever-vigilant.
Trump frustrated so he’s changing positions faster than usual.
Last night: Full Repeal, do a replacement later
Early this Morning: Let (make) ObamaCare fail then repeal/replace
Just now:
Holy shit.
I just spent nine days in hospital for colitis and my shitty medical aid covered everything but 9000 South African Rand (which is about USD700). And I thought I had it bad.
In Canada: I had a total knee replacement. I think my total cost was about $200 for odds and ends (uninsured medication, mobility aids).
So okay, there was a wait, and yes, it was too long. I looked at having it done in the US for money, but… wow, that would have a been a big chunk of my retirement savings.
Socialized medicine here is far from perfect. But what USAians have to deal with… sheesh. I ache for you guys.
That “Go to 51 votes” tweet by Drumpf was…not surprising, of course, but so unsettling.
Because why worry about representing all of the US?
Why uphold the Constitution, I mean, it’s just getting in the way of Drumpf’s perception of himself as “winning bigly”.
SIGH.
No one ever wants to have a doctor impressed by one’s X-ray. “Wow, that is completely boringly unsurprising to me, any issues I can see here are ones with which I am totally familiar” is more enjoyable.
How can McConnell hope that pushing for a simple repeal will succeed where Trumpcare failed?
Why is McConnell still doggedly going forward with an unpopular course of action, when he KNOWS just how low Trump’s approval rating is and how easily he could lose his razor-thin Senate majority in 2018?
I know he’s a cynical, amoral piece of shit, but I thought he was smart.
Well, I won’t complain if he leads the GOP to self-destruction.