"In Case You Missed It
The Senate voted 51 to 48:
1. To end coverage for preexisting conditions, veterans benefits, and
aid to rural hospitals.
2. To remove discrimination protection for women in healthcare.
3. Against the provision allowing children to remain on their parent's
insurance till the age of 26.
4. To cut off funding for the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
5. Against ACA contraceptive coverage and maternity care provision.
6. To direct committees to send budget legislation to defund and repeal
the Affordable Care Act.
For those who get health insurance through work, no pre-existing
conditions. Lifetime caps for coverage are back for everyone.
Real and disastrous actions are being taken that will affect more than
just the 20-30 million people who will lose their health care coverage
and the 3 million people who will lose their jobs.
Despite their assertions of this being an action to "repeal and
replace," no viable alternative plan has been proposed.
The House votes Friday.
Also, remember that this isn't to balance the budget. This is to give
the richest 0.1% a big tax cut.
As of this moment, no replacement exists.
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This is a vicious legislative knife-to-the-heart gutting of many aspects
of the ACA. Now I do not believe for one second that Paul Ryan and Mitch
McConnell are stocking up on shovels as consolation prizes to hand out
to families of people who die from inadequate healthcare as a result of
their lead on these repeals. After all, handing out an estimated 36,000
shovels would be expensive. Maybe they will have low cost vouchers for
cremation.