How the hell can anyone look at a graph of RyanCare and not be in a white-hot state of rage?

[Miles Archer]

The GOP Affordable Care Act replacement draft includes reforms promoted by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan since (and before) the passage of the ACA, including funding Medicaid with block grants to states and a per capita cap on Medicaid funding. The federal government pays a fixed share of states’ Medicaid costs.

Under Ryancare, federal funding would cover a fixed per capita amount and states would cover all costs above the cap—leading to an inevitable reduction in services. States would have to contribute significantly more, or more likely, cut payments to providers, as well as benefits. For example, 30 million children enrolled in Medicaid could lose access to comprehensive periodic medical screening that ensures that low-income children, particularly those with complex medical conditions, receive preventative care.

The bill would also revoke the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, which extended coverage for low-income Americans to 11 million additional people. The bill eliminates all taxes imposed by the ACA, correcting the “transfer of wealth” that undergirds “Obamacare.” As much as anything, it is a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. Taxes for the top 1 percent of Americans would be reduced by an average $33,000 next year. The top one-tenth of 1 percent of taxpayers would receive an average $197,000 tax in break. And the 400 highest earners, averaging $300 million a year, would receive individual tax windfalls of $7 million.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/here-is-the-terrible-truth-about-paul-ryans-health-care-plan/

[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. The only way to retain your sanity...

is to be thankful it's becoming clearer everyday to America that this cesspool of greed led by Trump will eventually be the electoral undoing of the Republican party.

"The resistance has fundamentally altered American politics,” said Anna Galland, executive director for MoveOn.org.

[LonePirate]

2. The deplorables are too stupid to understand graphs. The wealthy understand and love the graphs.

[world wide wally]

3. 35% of Americans cannot and will not accept this unless it is on Fox Gnus 24/7 for a week

[riversedge]

4. If you do not care and or do not have soul, it will just float by.

[n2doc]

5. And just wait until you see Trump's tax cuts graphed! n/t

[smirkymonkey]

6. I have been in a white-hot state of rage and it gets worse every day.

I do not understand how they have the fucking NERVE to even propose this and how anyone - no matter how deplorable - could possibly not be outraged by it, let alone accept it. What is happening here? I feel so helpless! They are screwing us over left and right and there seems to be NO WAY to stop them.

[CrispyQ]

7. I feel exactly the same way.

The hypocrisy is stunning! Do they not see it or do they just not care? And getting pissy at the democrats for not working with the GOP to destroy landmark democratic legislation. It's beyond me how their brains don't explode with all the double standard going on up there.