Let me count thy ways that the leaked GOP ACA repeal plan will totally, completely, monumentally screw you.
Dem Senator Tweetstorms About Leaked GOP Health Care Plan : " It Will Totally Screw You"
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Dem senator goes on tweet storm over leaked ObamaCare repeal plan
Feb. 24th, 2017
Sen. Chris Murphy 
Chris Murphy Dem senator goes on tweet storm over leaked ObamaCare repeal plan A guide to the committees: Senate Senators eye new sanctions against Iran MORE (D-Conn.) blasted the leaked Republican plans for repealing and replacing ObamaCare in a Friday night tweet storm.
A draft House Republican ObamaCare bill was leaked on Friday and includes plans to dismantle the core aspects of the healthcare law and replace them with a system centered on a new tax credit.
The measure is dated Feb. 10, so it is not the most recent version of Republicans’ plan. It is unclear how much has changed since then.
Murphy starts his "rant" with a tweet saying, "Let me count thy ways that the leaked GOP ACA repeal plan will totally, completely, monumentally screw you."He followed it with a series of tweets highlighting six parts of the draft ObamaCare repeal bill.
(1) You get a couple thousand bucks to help u buy insurance. That's it. If u aren't rich or healthy, u won't be able to afford anything.
(2) It gets worse. When u can't afford your premiums bc the tax credit is too small, you get a huge penalty when you try to sign up again.
(3) Coverage mandates and penalties only work if you make insurance affordable. GOP plan cuts subsidies so much that penalty is unworkable.
(4) Mandatory benefits are repealed. So even if you CAN get insurance, it doesn't have to cover ANYTHING. Out of pocket expenses skyrocket.
(5) Oh, and Medicaid expansion is effectively GONE. Millions and millions lose coverage, start using ERs again for health care. Others die.
(6) Last rant, for now. If you're older, your premiums go WAY up. GOP plan guts premium protections for older consumers.
In contrast to ObamaCare, the credits are not based on income, which Democrats argue means not enough help is given to low-income people to be able to afford coverage. Republicans say income-based credits discourage work.
The GOP plan is paid for in part through a proposal to start taxing more generous employer-sponsored health insurance plans. The proposal would start taxing plans above the 90th percentile of premiums.
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Chris Murphy is a straight shooter. If he says the GOP plan sucks, it sucks.
The GOP program for dealing with people who need affordable healthcare and can not afford to pay for it is to make it out of their reach, so they just die off. That's the same reason they plan on wiping out Medicaid. Why pay to keep the poor healthy when it's cheaper just to let them die of easily preventable and/or treatable diseases? For those that don't die from disease, they already have their eyes on kicking as many as 10 million people off Food Stamps. I guess starving them is a good alternative too.
Alan Grayson was right. The GOP healthcare plan is don't get sick! And if you do get sick, die quickly!
It's either that or they have to admit that they have to leave Obamacare in place.
People were so shocked when he said that but that's what it boils down to and always has. Money.
It's a lot easier to be against something in government then for something to replace it. It was hard putting together the ACA and it was challenged all of the way up to the Supreme Court. We've had it for several years and many people have benefited from, some without even knowing, like the fact that it has helped extend Medicare. Then there are the people who hated it and pushed their Congressmen to repeal it more then 50 times because it was called Obamacare, but who actually did not think that the ACA and Obamacare were the same program. So they voted Republican in the last election because they thought they were getting rid of a program named after the hated Obama and then found out it was the ACA that they are getting their insurance from. Now they are pissed that the Republicans in Congress who want to take their insurance away and don't have the slightest fucking clue of what to replace it with! The GOP has had 8 years to come up with a plan to replace Obamacare but the simple fact is that what they are going to end up "replacing" it with is leaving the same damned program in place with a few tweaks here and there just enough to say it is now their plan. But guess what? In history books 100 years from now the plan that will still be in place 10 years from now will still be called Obamacare, because the GOP doesn't know or care abut putting together a real healthcare plan that covers just about all Americans. They don't think the government should do it in the first place, the cold hearted bastards. It goes against their heart and black soul.