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Tanuki

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2. It is a health plan in name only. There is no consideration of

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Apr 20, 2017, 05:04 PM

Apr 2017

health and well being. This is a tax cut for the wealthiest, at the expense of those in greatest need, masquerading as a health plan and is being rammed through so that those cuts will be in place in time for the phase of tax cuts that he will actually acknowledge. The media should not collude in this grotesque farce by going along with calling this a health care plan.

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Me too! classof56 Apr 2017 #5

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It is a health plan in name only. There is no consideration of Tanuki Apr 2017 #2

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