GOP Sen.: Assessing O'Care Repeal Bill Depends On How You Define 'Better'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published JUNE 23, 2017 10:12 AM

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) expressed his support for the Senate Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill Friday, although he told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” that he had yet to commit to voting for it.

Asked if the bill bettered the state of health care, Cassidy replied: “It depends on how you define ‘better.’”

“It eliminates the individual and employee mandate, people love that,” co-host Steve Doocy told Cassidy. “It gets rid of a lot of taxes. Ultimately it’s got to be cheaper and it’s got to be better. Is it?”

“It is cheaper, and it depends on how you define better,” Cassidy said. “Obamacare had bells and whistles on all of their policies.” The senator said Obamacare’s Essential Health Benefits — categories of services that insurers were required to cover — added “a small portion of the cost,” and that other things mandated by Obamacare “folks just couldn’t afford.”

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[dalton99a]

1. Well, it's a known medical fact that people get better when they go to heaven

or wherever

[Moostache]

2. Fuck them all....this bill is all about $$$ to the haves and death to the poor, period.

They can soft-shoe and half-step around all they want, and their idiot base will snap to and lock step right along with them (until their insurance disappears and they die in poverty bitterly believing that their plight is the fault of some minorities in San Francisco).

I have had it with these morons. Let the poor ones who vote Republican out of spite, ignorance or religion die and be gone. I am no longer going to care more about their well-being and futures than they do...I have had it. You loves you some Trump tough talk and being manly? Fine. When you die, we will throw your corpse into a big open pit grave and maybe cover the body with lime - if the GOP wants to pay to keep the stench down...otherwise, into the pit you go to rot with the corpse of the rest of the 99% who the GOP does not give a fuck about...

For the people about to be killed off sooner than myself, I am sorry that we live in such a shitty country...I am actively looking for a new home in a better one...there's probably 15-20 in Europe alone that lap this shit hole now...

[Saviolo]

3. Who are they shilling for, anyway?

“It eliminates the individual and employee mandate, people love that,” co-host Steve Doocy told Cassidy. “It gets rid of a lot of taxes. Ultimately it’s got to be cheaper and it’s got to be better. Is it?”


Which people love that? Oh, right, the people who are corporations and no longer have to provide group coverage. Yay corporate personhood once again. It gets rid of a lot of taxes? For who? Or right, wealthy people. Extremely wealthy people. The people who would barely notice a massive medical emergency in their pocketbooks. Not the people for whom a minor emergency could ruin them financially for life.

Once again the hyper-wealthy get a break and the poor and quickly-becoming-poor are kicked out the door. You know, the hyper wealthy would barely notice an increase in taxes big enough to fund Obamacare and provide medical coverage to millions who can't afford it, and then the hyper wealthy might not have to walk around in fear seeing guillotines in the eyes of everyone they see.

[Scarsdale]

9. Big pharma

has made BIG contributions to Addison McConnell, Orrin Hatch and several others. If this bill is so great, let's DEMAND that THEY have to enroll. They strip the working class of protections for healthcare, while they are safe and sound with their Cadillac insurance, subsidized by taxpayers. Take that away, what is good enough for us, should be good enough for them and their ill-gotten gains.

[Bayard]

4. "folks just couldnt afford"

Seriously? And they're going to afford having NO insurance so much better? I expect bankruptcy filings because of medical bills are going to skyrocket.

[Scarsdale]

10. Hospitals are struggling as it is

treating gunshot victims. Most have no insurance, but have to be treated. Imagine if EVERY patient comes in with no insurance? Hospitals will be closing. One doctor on TV earlier this week said the hospital he works at is millions of dollars in debt, treating victims of meth lab explosions who have no insurance. Pretty soon very few will be able to afford, or qualify (!) for insurance. Is STUPIDITY a pre-existing condition, since most so-called "representatives" suffer from that.

[Skittles]

5. he talks and looks like a fucking moron

let me guess, the mandated items people "just couldn't afford" have something to do with maternity care

[ananda]

6. So, for the Reeps, better means ..

.. death and suffering for 24+ million
and large tax savings for the rich.

Righteeoo

[Blue Idaho]

8. It's not just the 24 + million...

This atrocity will effect 100% of Americans. If you have employer provided health insurance, expect it to take a big drop in coverage and a big jump in co-pays. If you depend on Medicare or Medicaid, God help you.

[Blue Idaho]

7. Things will definitely get better...

For the rich. If you are one of the 98% that don't qualify as "rich" you are fucked.

[TomCADem]

11. It Is Not a Health Bill, It Is a Tax Cut to the Rich...

...that is financed by cuts in benefits to working class Americans.