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Related: About this forumRepealing Obamacare Could Kill 43,000 People Per Year
Republicans seem hellbent on repealing The Affordable Care Act, and a new study shows that doing so without a comparable replacement will kill more than 43,000 people every year due to a lack of insurance coverage. Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this.
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Repealing Obamacare Could Kill 43,000 People Per Year (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Jan 2017
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tenorly
(2,037 posts)1. The idea of ethnic cleansing, you'll find, is seldom far from most Republicans.
This would definitely appeal to that sentiment.
safeinOhio
(32,523 posts)2. Just enough for3 chin double Belly
To be a one term leader
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)3. People are money to the Republicans
They don't care about the uninsured, they are perceived as
unemployed, lazy, or not really employable
They don't want LGBT. They are perceived as unmotivated to
work as hard as others because they don't have traditional families.
They want Baby Factories. Those are women in their minds. They
produce consumers and future workers to be exploited for labor,
profits, consumption.
I obviously think there is an economic and financial basis for their beliefs.
But as usual I could be cynical and all wet