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14 hours ago, Titans_Win_Again said:

Serious question, what about the fire department and police?

You aren't seriously trying to equate public and privately held mega-corps insurance companies with the core of the country's first responders,...

Are you?

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You never know.  Most districts are not in play for the house - way too partisan by gerrymandering or not.  And a large % of states are going to vote their party no matter what.  Ineptitude in DC just

A lot of the ACA tax funded Medicare, the Republicans real target.  Repealing those taxes hurts Medicare, which in a few years Republicans will claim they need to gut.  If people are still electing th

So much hypocrisy from the GOP  

It's retarded to suggest that BCRA "returns" us to a free market in health care. You clearly don't even know the first thing about what they're going to do.

Also, health care is a place where a free market wouldn't work well. 

You can't really shop around based on price or quality and you have no power to walk away. 

I know the price and quality of foods and I can choose from many alternatives. Health care is not like this at all. 

 

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Long term living centers is where most people will fill this bill if it is passed:

 

http://khn.org/news/in-the-end-even-the-middle-class-would-feel-gop-cuts-to-nursing-home-care/

 

ORANGE, Va. – Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She raised four children and buried two husbands.

But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care at Dogwood Village, a nonprofit, county-owned nursing home here.

“You think you’ve got enough money to last all your life, and here I am,” Jacobs said.

 

Medicaid pays for most of the 1.4 million elderly people in nursing homes, like Jacobs.

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9 hours ago, Little Earl said:

You need to come up with a better example than that.   Pence is neither the President nor a Senator.  

That's too easy: 20 GOP criticisms of Obamacare secrecy that now look eerily hypocritical

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Feb. 23, 2010:

“When it comes to solving problems, Americans want us to listen first, and then, if necessary, offer targeted, step-by-step solutions. Above all, they’re tired of a process that shuts them out. They’re tired of giant bills negotiated in secret, then jammed through on a party-line vote in the middle of the night.”

 

 

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