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I am the Silent OneMichael Harriot
3/15/17 12:07pm
Can we please start calling this thing Trumpcare? Enough of this AHCA bullshit. We need to call this thing what it is.
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  EvenBaggierTrousers5I am the Silent One
  3/15/17 12:15pm
  It’ll be up to us to do that. They don’t want anyone to be able to pin this on one person, hence they’re killing every attempt to call it Trumpcare or Ryancare or GOPcare. They pinned the other on Obama and he welcomed it because he knew no one had anything better to offer. But these douchenozzles know this plan is BS, hence they’re trying their best not to touch it.
  But yeah, every chance you get, call it Trumpcare.
  And It’s funny that it’s the one thing he DOESN’T want to slap his name on. That should tell you something.
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  Prostate of Dorian GrayI am the Silent One
  3/15/17 12:25pm
  We could start calling it “Better hope you don’t get fucking sick if you make under 30K a year care”, although Trumpcare is much more succinct.
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Prostate of Dorian GrayMichael Harriot
3/15/17 12:24pm
Hells bells Harry Truman brought up universal health care 70 damn years ago. Why is it so hard to realize that if we’re all able to use preventative care, the whole country improves? Getting sick shouldn’t ruin a person financially. Everyone should have the ability to not feel like shit all the frickin’ time. It’s not coddling people; it’s making sure that the working poor can use something besides the emergency room or urgent care places for healthcare.
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  10110101101Prostate of Dorian Gray
  3/15/17 1:10pm
  We’ve had universal health care since 1883. The public health insurance system survived vast changes in government (empire-republic-dictatorship-republic) and two lost world wars.
  You’re the richest country in the world. You can do it, too.
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  Hello, America: Find Your SoulProstate of Dorian Gray
  3/15/17 1:58pm
  And it saves a ton of money in the long run, if we want to play the GOP game of putting dollar amounts on lives.
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PS9Michael Harriot
3/15/17 12:28pm
The most insane thing to me about all of this is how little people knew about the government they were voting for or what is was going to do. ‘I don’t have Obamacare, I have ACA, so I’m fine if Obamacare gets repealed’, ‘I don’t understand how the politicians I voted for can take my healthcare away. Don’t they know I’ll die without it?’ Motherfuckers, they repealed Obamacare in the house sixty times and campaigned to do exactly that once they had all the power for six fucking years.
Voting for the wolves as a sheep and handing them the barn door key as they enter it is a terrible survival strategy with extremely predictable results.
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  "Hachi"PS9
  3/15/17 1:18pm
  I’m not that sad that the biggest cohort who stand to lose under the repeal are these folks.
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  10110101101PS9
  3/15/17 1:18pm
  Republican voters never venture out of their safe space - their echo chamber - these days. They don’t even talk to liberal relatives anymore. All these easily verifiable facts are beyond their reach in the Fox News-Breitbart-Drudge-Jones bubble.
  They’re precisely the kind of people Kant talked about when he defined enlightenment as
  Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] “Have courage to use your own understanding!”–that is the motto of enlightenment.
  The #1 task of any education system - and, obviously, parents, too - must be raising curious citizens and giving them the intellectual tools to expand their knowledge on their own, to do research, verify sources and seperate fact from fiction.
  Of course, such a citizenry is antithetical to the interests of the elites. The worst thing for a factory owner is a laborer who questions his position in the food chain. He might just start a union, demand being paid well and reduce profit margins!
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10110101101Michael Harriot
3/15/17 1:07pm
After the entire country gasped at the numbers, the Grand Old Party admitted it will have to fix many of the troubling aspects of the AHCA
The problem is that the “troubling aspects” of the ACA are the result of Republican and bluedog Democrat opposition - they can only be fixed by leftist solutions that broaden coverage and socialize the system further to cut costs - not by anything the Republicans can come up with, given the limits of their market-based ideology.
This ideology makes it impossible to improve the ACA, it can and will only make it worse. All that matters now is how much worse they will make it - to minimize the damage they will do - because the Republicans will have to pass something, anything, if they want to survive in 2018. Opposition to Obamacare and a promise of repeal and replace was their #1 rallying cry for the last eight years, they can’t backtrack on that.
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  Hello, America: Find Your Soul10110101101
  3/15/17 2:00pm
  Yeah, exactly. The very core of conservative “values” on this issue sit in direct opposition with the voters’ wants and needs. There is no Republican solution that doesn’t involve people losing their access to healthcare (that’s not to say they won’t try it anyway).
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  10110101101Hello, America: Find Your Soul
  3/15/17 3:21pm
  They can’t tell people that, though, because that would crush them at the ballots. Republican voters vote Republican for the sexism and racism, not because they want to give tax cuts to billionaires - that’s merely what they’re getting as the main dish, with sexism and racism merely serving as appetizer and dessert.
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PhoneBurnerElmoMichael Harriot
3/15/17 12:18pm
At 5pm last night I made a doctor’s appointment for 11am today. I walked out with an answer, 2 prescriptions, and $10 lighter. If I didn’t have health insurance that would have cost me nearly $3000. No one should have to wonder what their chances of dying are if they put off a doctor another month while they come up with the money
Ps Michael you can’t tease me like that and not include pics of Omar. Please!
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Cali4lifeMichael Harriot
3/15/17 12:19pm
All on point thank you. Except this, for which I am embarrassed and ashamed of you: “health care recipe worse than white people’s potato salad”
There is nothing worse in the universe. End of story.
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  RickeyHendersonForeverCali4life
  3/15/17 12:22pm
  Not speaking for all crackers here, but I will make a potato salad so good you’ll slap your momma :-)
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  Cali4lifeRickeyHendersonForever
  3/15/17 12:23pm
  Lolz. Starred for Ricky Time!
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Hello, America: Find Your SoulMichael Harriot
3/15/17 1:53pm
Now, every Republican politician reluctantly admits that all Americans deserve access to cheap, good medical care.
Not EVERY but yeah, a lot. This is a point I’m trying to get across to other liberals - does anyone REMEMBER the conversation before Obamacare? This is different, and that in itself is huge.
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MonteRioMichael Harriot
3/15/17 12:33pm
“a health care recipe worse than white people’s potato salad”
That’s hurtful, man.
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