America's healthcare is being driven off a cliff by nihilists
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/04/obamacare-republican-healthcare-bill-nihilism
"If the mythology of Paul Ryan, cerebral and considerate policy wonk, survives 4 May, it will truly be a miracle. Or just another marker of the punditocracy’s unshakeable idiocy.
Were an alien to wander down to Earth and examine the functionality of American democracy in 2017, it would find an intellectual graveyard. Lawmakers tasked with carefully considering remarkably complex legislation with the potential to significantly alter the lives of millions of people are instead rushing to vote for a bill that they know almost nothing about and that no outside expert has had the time to seriously assess. This is insanity.
The healthcare bill will funnel $100bn to states over a decade to stabilize what are sure to be markets wracked by chaos, assuming this legislation survives intact to Trump’s desk. Amendments provide another $30bn to states with few strings attached. If somehow all of this money is used just for the high-risk pools, it will come out to $138bn, which sounds impressive enough. But most healthcare researchers believe a competently run national high-risk pool would cost much more.
Factoring in lifetime caps on coverage and longer waiting periods, one 2010 estimate from two conservative health economists found such a pool would cost $150bn-$200bn over a decade. Other recent estimates believe the price tag to be much higher."
I am not religious, but I really hope there is a hell and that they burn forever in it.
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