Category 4 Obamacare sabotage is also ongoing
Some Conservatives feel as if secret liberal Donald Trump tricked them into not getting into a giant fight over Harvey disaster relief as Irma threatens much of Florida, but Trump’s assault on Obamacare and health care in general continues to be as Republican as hell.
Trump has quietly let Obamacare's entire outreach budget lapse, causing lost jobs and confusion. https://t.co/iKwvU6fcfg
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) September 8, 2017
In addition, the Trump administration still won’t give clarity on whether it will be paying out the “cost-sharing reduction” payments insurers have been promised, which is threatening the coverage of 350,000 Virginians while potentially costing taxpayers billions.
New @urbaninstitute estimates: Ending #ACA CSRs could increase federal spending by 18% or the uninsured by 9.4M. https://t.co/2B3QnWXa1w pic.twitter.com/xiEypj0LuD
— Stephen Zuckerman (@zuckermans) September 9, 2017
But it gets worse. They’re still coming for your Obamacare and your Medicaid.
Some Republicans — with approval of the White House — still want to pull off the worst possible of sabotage of your health care — Trumpcare 4.0 AKA Graham-Cassidy. And they think they can do it.
Ran into Lindsey Graham today – he's still super-duper optimistic he'll be able to pass Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal/replace by Sept. 30.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) September 9, 2017
What is Graham-Cassidy, besides the GOP’s only hope of repealing Obamacare before their reconciliation window closes on September 30?
Andy Slavitt — who ran Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid under President Obama — sums it up:
I can summarize it quickly. Partisan. Repeal. Major cuts. Caps Medicaid. Bad for all. Much worse for blue states.#AmIClose https://t.co/5YdK8L6dEu
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 8, 2017
It includes the same cuts to Medicaid in the House bill that violated Trump’s campaign promise and they get much worse after the ten-year window that the the Congressional Budget Office scores.
Graham-Cassidy includes BCRA's $2.6 trillion in Medicaid cuts '27-'36, and yet I almost never see this mentioned https://t.co/PirTAUOaCR
— Jacob Leibenluft (@jleibenluft) September 8, 2017
Why is Graham doing this?
To save the GOP and make sure the party’s base shows up in 2018.
Don't put party over country.
Lindsey Graham’s on a lonely quest to repeal and replace Obamacare https://t.co/VzeSy6LlMM pic.twitter.com/mxHnqS7uBG
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 8, 2017
Also, the money that’s robbed from health care can then promptly fed into tax breaks for the rich and their corporations, which is another fight that’s coming:
You can find more resources for the upcoming tax fight at https://t.co/S1oxH45dOI #TrumpTaxScam pic.twitter.com/OvXUUFE82R
— Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) September 6, 2017
Republican donors want these tax breaks for the rich and uninsuring lots of working families makes them even more likely. These two meshed struggles, I believe, will decide the fate of the Trump presidency, which is why even some of the worst natural disasters in American history will not slow the GOP down.
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