{"id":134793,"date":"2017-09-20T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134793"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:56:54","slug":"gop-leadership-plays-chicken-peoples-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/gop-leadership-plays-chicken-peoples-lives.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP Leadership plays chicken with people’s lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s really what it boils down to. Though there were some bipartisan efforts starting up in the Senate, Mitch McConnell kneecapped them by pressing forward on a last-ditch Repeal-and-Not-Really-Replace-But-Do-Other-Awful-Things bill, and Paul Ryan finished the job by saying the House would not take up any<\/i> bipartisan plan to fix the ACA.<\/p>\n

So the message here (assuming you can trust them to follow through) is either intentionally rob tens of millions of insurance, throw us back into the Darwinian jungle of pre-existing condition surcharges, and cripple a major medical social net for the poor, elderly, and disabled … or let the whole mess burn.<\/p>\n

Because they have to win. They have to appease their Randian base. They have to follow through on their commitment even as they fling the nation off the back of the sleigh. Because that’s all that matters to them, and the consequences to the poor and middle class aren’t a consideration.<\/p>\n

Will they get away with it? Will the American voters continue to let them get away with it?<\/p>\n


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\nRepublicans Threaten To Let Obamacare Markets Fall Into \u201cChaos\u201d If Repeal Fails<\/a><\/span>
\n\u201cObamacare is collapsing and there\u2019s not a lot of appetite to prop it up, so chaos is going to reign.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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That’s really what it boils down to. Though there were some bipartisan efforts starting up in the Senate, Mitch McConnell kneecapped them by pressing forward on a last-ditch Repeal-and-Not-Really-Replace-But-Do-Other-Awful-Things bill, and Paul Ryan finished the job by saying the House would not take up any bipartisan plan to fix the ACA. So the message here … Continue reading “GOP Leadership plays chicken with people’s lives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,134,358,376],"tags":[1171,125,1045],"class_list":["post-134793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-health-care","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-aca","tag-gop","tag-repealandreplace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mcconnell-trump-ryan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134596,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/07\/just-case-missed-gop-trying-repeal-aca.html","url_meta":{"origin":134793,"position":0},"title":"Just in case you missed it, the GOP is trying to repeal the ACA again","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Sep-17 6:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a very long post that a computer crash ate, so I'll just throw this out there -- a cynical attempt to do all the worst things that the previous repeal-and-not-really-replace effort had, but tweak the transition numbers so that key GOP Senators don't face as much heat over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-17.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":134734,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/18\/reminder-gop-hasnt-stopped-trying-repeal-aca.html","url_meta":{"origin":134793,"position":1},"title":"Again, a reminder that the GOP hasn’t stopped trying to repeal the ACA","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Sep-17 11:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone sort of went back to sleep on this one after their try failed in July. 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