The GOP health plan:
Hah, that made me snort. Cd-i.
Trump literally got elected claiming to have concepts of a plan. No doubt the rubes believe them
Remember when Republicans complained about the ACA for years, then got control and brought a healthcare plan to the table that was so bad John McCain famously voted it down? Then, instead of reworking it and trying again, they just gave the fuck up? Kind of like how they did with infrastructure before Biden stepped in and got that done immediately?
Is it the same as what they had in 2018?
They never have told us what it is and they never will tell us what it is because their healthcare plan is for you to die in the street like the trash they see you as.
I think its pretty clear by now that repuglicans lie more than your average politician
Their plan is the same as it ever was. Rich people can afford the best care. Everyone else can die. This plan is not super marketable so that is why they wont make this more transparent.
Ooohhh I know this one!
This must be the same as that one they had like 7 years ago that would be ready in two weeks and would be the best healthcare plan ever?
And then crickets?
Just in case if anyone is still in doubt: there is no healthcare plan. Not beyond “get sick and become a slave or die”
Almost 20 years ago at this point even.
Just like the last time Trump was in office. “Repeal and replace” “With what?” “After we repeal, we’ll tell you”
No build. Only destroy.
Concepts of a plan
Republicans have nothing beyond the argumentative skills of 5 year olds trying to avoid eating their vegetables
Oooh oooh, I’ve seen this one!
Fantastic
The plan is “just die.”
No, the plan is that you pay for insurance your whole life, and then just die owing large amounts of money so they can take everything you ever had away from your kids.
Everyone the plan is quite obvious! Embrace nurgle! Once we all follow American leadership to recieve his blessing and reach peak body like the plague father we will know true happiness.
They’ve been trying to tell us they have this secret plan since the ACA passed in 2010. Fifteen years of swearing up and down that it’s some great plan that will help everyone, maybe including poor people if they think it’ll help convince anyone but definitely including insurance companies and pharmaceutical giants.
The problem is, the ACA was already their idea. The 2006 Massachusetts law that he proposed and signed into law as governor was an early version of Obamacare, including the Individual Mandate and a penalty for businesses that didn’t provide insurance to their employees. It was a stopgap measure to overhaul the system so that patients wouldn’t use the ER for health care and run up huge unpaid bills when they could just pay for the care from the correct provider; but unintentionally, it also got 98% of Massachusetts residents insured.
But by the time Romney started campaigning for president in 2012, the GOP had already started moving dramatically to the right, to the point where this lukewarm, milquetoast excuse for a solution was seen as radical. And since the GOP can’t risk doing something that will reduce their voters’ hardship (because paradoxically then they might stop voting for them), they are terrified of coming up with anything that might actually help.
And the Romney plan was based on the Republican counter offer when Bill Clinton was trying to get universal health care passed. Clinton rejected it as not good enough.
And he was right. Still, I wonder how things would’ve been different had Clinton accepted the counteroffer and tried to iterate on it afterwards. The 2004-and-beyond GOP playbook has been to keep the Republican base spiked with anxiety and fear, blame Democrats for it, and use that cortisol to bring out the vote; but if the fear and anxiety about health care had been toned down and reduced their overall fear, maybe maga would’ve had more trouble gaining traction.
Or maybe it would’ve been successfully repealed in 2016. Who knows.
