Looks like it will pass today.
Feeling helpless and sad but trying to focus on the fact that the people most affected will be Trump voters and perhaps this will be a catalyst towards single payer when they realize this doesn't fix anything.
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It'll pass the House but I doubt it'll pass the Senate. There's a lot of things that make me angry about it, but I'm keeping my mouth shut. Like you I'm hoping this will mostly affect Trump supporters and it'll blow up in their faces. But I'm still pretty angry with how November went down , which puts me in a "not my problem but it sucks to be you" sort of mood.
I know, goes against everything I stand for as a bleeding heart liberal, but I'm MAD.
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This is very scary. Of course, the media is talking a lot of preexisting conditions, so I'm selfishly wondering about my own medical history and what that will look like to an underwriter.
Beyond myself, I'm so incredibly saddened by this news for my friends who have children with chronic illness, cancer, or were born with "preexisting conditions". This is tragic news.
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All I can say is that I'm glad we don't live in the US. The healthcare situation is a joke. NO ONE in Europe lives in fear of medical costs or medical bankruptcy.
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It just passed. What a bunch of cowards pushing a terrible bill through right before their recess so they didn't have to face their constituents and explain a bill that doesn't even have a CBO score.
@helloperidot: I agree that it won't pass in the Senate, at least not in this current form but it sickens me that they now get to parade around this "win" and also they'll be able to blame dems when it doesn't get through the Senate.
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This affects everyone, even people with insurance through their employers...there is no such thing as any one being safe and that scares me.
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This pretty much sums up my thoughts...
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Did you see that the House Democrats were singing "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" to the Republicans as the vote passed? Totally immature, but hysterical nonetheless.
On a serious note, though, this deeply deeply saddens me. My son has CHD. How will he get insurance coverage? As a hospital social worker, it infuriates me. We saw fewer readmissions since the passage of the ACA as patients with chronic health conditions could finally get insurance and afford their care. Without insurance, they can't afford their doctor's visits, so they wait until they're so sick that they have to come to the hospital. They can't pay their hospital bills. They can't afford their medications, so they're "noncompliant" and wind up back in the hospital. Rinse and repeat.
I'm so disappointed in Congress, who clearly care more about their agenda than about their constituents. I hope their constituents finally wake up and realize this and take their anger to the polls.
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@lawbee11: Yes. Exactly. Man, Dan Rather has been such a grounding force for me through all of this.
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