The purpose of the Republican healthcare plan:

[kentuck]

Number one, it is to repeal "Obamacare".

Number two, it is to cut Medicaid and give a taxcut to the wealthy.

Nothing else matters.

They don't give a damn about the health of the American people.

[wasupaloopa]

1. They want to cut Medicaid

[kentuck]

2. Thanks!

Fixed.

[Freddie]

3. What about charging age 50-64 5x as much?

I'm not seeing this delightful part of the House travesty in any of the articles about the "reveal" of the new one. I'm
sure it's buried in there somewhere.

[Wounded Bear]

8. I believe that is a big part of the Medicaid cuts...

Many, many Medicaid recipients are older Americans not yet old enough for Medicare but forced out of employment and unable to regain jobs with decent plans.

It bears stating directly, of course, but I believe that is how that happens.

[Freddie]

10. The law removes the cap of 3x more

That open market plans can charge older people. Somewhere in the fine print. They just fucked their voting base but it won't matter, will it?

[TBA]

4. If you don't work you should not get heath insurance -

They think the poor do not deserve it. Never mind those working minimum wage jobs with no benefits. They should just work harder and get a better job.

They have no real concept of the obstacles the poor and working poor face. (I've had this argument with a coworker.)

[katmondoo]

5. I am 87 do I have to go to work?

I have stage 3 kidney disease and bladder cancer. I have Medicare and Medicaid, SS is about $12,000 a year. I have already decided I will have to forego treatment if they take away Medicaid and reduce Medicare.

[kentuck]

6. The Republicans do not care about people like you and I...

As proof, it is being reported that the group of Republican Senators that were supposed to fix the House version have not even read the bill. The only people that know what is in the new bill are a few aides and some lobbyists.

I am sorry to hear of your difficulties.

[procon]

7. ☹ Its the perfect Republican Utopia.

Cut healthcare to deny contraceptives and medical treatment.
Cut the social safety net programs.
Cut education programs.
Expand the use of militarized police and private prisons.
Cut unions, end high pay and benefit plans, and remove the minimum wage.
Cut health and safety regulation that benefit consumers and workers.
Cut standards on safe water, food, medicines and goods.
Cut consumer protection regulations on financial products, credit and banking.
Expand voter suppression tactics, and increase the influx of dark money.
Denigate the Fourth Estate to the point there is only state propaganda.
Lower the standard of living to allow more exploitation.
Make the majority of US citizens voiceless and powerless to improve their status.
Price the poor and the working class into ghettos and enclaves separate from the wealthy.

♫ Oh, what a wonderful world! ♪ ♬

[ck4829]

9. Health care in the US isn't about treating your problems, it's about social control

The ACA mitigated some of that, but now we just have to return to it, no matter how many lives are destroyed in the process. Social control is what makes our system "the greatest healthcare system in the world".

http://tpalladium.freeforums.net/thread/19/intro-evidence

Reform means opposing this, from the top down as well as from the bottom up.