Senate GOP to diabetics: Just go to the ER

[workinclasszero]

Senate GOP to diabetics: Just go to the ER
The cuts to Medicaid in the Senate Republican health care bill would almost overnight cut off access to life-saving treatment for diabetics, sending them to the emergency room where they would incur enormous financial costs.
By Oliver Willis JUNE 22, 2017

Donald Trump’s budget director said months ago that he did not believe diabetics deserve health insurance. Now, in their recently revealed health care bill, Senate Republicans are working to enshrine this callous mindset into the law.

Senate Republicans have finally released the text of their health care bill, devised and negotiated in private by 13 men, handed off to insurance lobbyists while the public was shut out of the process.

What came out of that sealed-off process is legislation targeting Medicaid, the government system designed to provide access to health care for the most vulnerable and at-risk Americans. The Republican bill, dubbed the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, does this while fulfilling the ongoing Republican initiative to cut taxes for the extremely wealthy.

Obamacare expanded Medicaid, increasing the likelihood that diabetics would be diagnosed early, and providing coverage so that expensive medication like insulin can be paid for.

http://shareblue.com/senate-gop-to-diabetics-just-go-to-the-er/

[shraby]

1. Karma is looming for the budget director.

May it be swift and to the point.

[workinclasszero]

2. I can't begin to understand the evil minds that agree with this statement:

"Donald Trump’s budget director said months ago that he did not believe diabetics deserve health insurance."

That covers the entire republican party as it stands today.

Pure, unadulterated, evil.

[Nay]

8. It's evil just for that one statement -- but it's doubly evil because their capitalist

buddies, over the decades, have degraded the food supply with absolute crap; poured all sorts of sugars into foods that don't even need sugar; made garbage foodstuffs way cheaper than produce and lean meats; jiggered school meals so that contractors get the most $$ for the least nutritious food; and so on. All of this contributes to the ill health of the population for simple profit. It's totally evil.

[workinclasszero]

9. +1

All for $$$, you got it friend.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. They are evil.

They are just pure evil.

I never thought I would see anything like this in my lifetime. There is nothing they won't do.

These guys are so crooked they will have to screw them into the ground when they die. Hopefully that will happen sooner than later.

[get the red out]

3. Exactly

Sounds good to me.

[dalton99a]

5. Or slow and painful, like what he inflicts on millions

[dalton99a]

4. Suspicious lump? ER. Bloody sputum? ER. Failing eyesight? ER.

ad nauseam

[workinclasszero]

6. And a minimum 5000 dollar or so bill per visit

The republicans are out to destroy the economy for their billionaire backers, fuck everybody else.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep. Credit card declined? Please leave our waiting room