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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:40 PM Mar 2020

You'd Think A Pandemic Would Halt GOP Attempt To Overturn Obamacare

You'd Think A Pandemic Would Halt GOP Attempt To Overturn Obamacare

If the lawsuit is successful, 20 million Americans will lose their healthcare coverage.

By Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars

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Representatives for five of those attorneys general—from the states of Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee—confirmed to The Daily Beast that the coronavirus outbreak has not changed their plans to try and kill the health care law as parties to the case of Texas v. California. Their steadfastness comes even as their states are beginning to feel the acute impact of the coronavirus’ spread. Georgia currently has over 1,700 coronavirus cases, while Tennessee has nearly 1,000 and the others have anywhere from 350 to 600.

The other 13 state attorney general offices, including that of lead state Texas—where the state’s most populous counties have issued shelter-in-place orders to counter the spread of the coronavirus—either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment. None of them have announced any plans to reconsider their participation in the lawsuit.

Their determination to kill the law, no matter the circumstances, mirrors President Trump’s. Asked at a press conference last week whether the virus had changed his plans to press ahead in court, Trump affirmed that "what we want to do is terminate it.”

If the Trump administration and these states succeed in repealing the ACA, the impact on the country’s public health system would be immense, pandemic or not. That the decision could come early next year—at the tail end or recovery stage of a devastating outbreak—gives it a seismic significance for the 20 million Americans covered by the law, the 84 million who are uninsured or under-insured, and the insurers, hospitals, and governments that have adapted to Obamacare over the course of a decade.


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You'd Think A Pandemic Would Halt GOP Attempt To Overturn Obamacare (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2020 OP
For years we've endured the onslaught of countless attacks on Obama Care, derided because. . . Journeyman Mar 2020 #1
+1 applegrove Mar 2020 #3
"Susie" seems to not understand Republicans... SMC22307 Mar 2020 #2
If anything, the pubs will exploit this crisis to further their reactionary agenda hangaleft Mar 2020 #4
No they see this as an opportunity, captain queeg Apr 2020 #5
"Our solution to a disease that causes people to gasp for breath: more air pollution!" struggle4progress Apr 2020 #7
They're ideologues, not thinkers struggle4progress Apr 2020 #6

Journeyman

(15,001 posts)
1. For years we've endured the onslaught of countless attacks on Obama Care, derided because. . .
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:43 PM
Mar 2020

it won’t allow us keep our doctor. "Gotta keep our corporate provided, private insurance carrier instead, or the world will fall apart." So now the world’s fallen apart and whatta ya know? Not gonna keep your doctor or your insurance.

If we can afford trillions to fight Covid-19, we can afford insurance for all.

SMC22307

(8,088 posts)
2. "Susie" seems to not understand Republicans...
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:47 PM
Mar 2020

unlike many of us who have watched them in action for decades.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
5. No they see this as an opportunity,
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 12:22 AM
Apr 2020

They jumped right on rolling back vehicle emissions. Anything that stinks of global warming will be in the cross hairs. But the big one coming will be cuts to SS and Medicare. They’ll at least try.

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