This is really getting personal.
The Orange Orangutan made two moves this month that, if successful, will mean that I can’t see a doctor when I’m sick.
Act One is Trump’s response to a frivolous lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General, and a few others who can’t stand the idea that sick people might get the care they need. Here is the argument:
- The Supreme Court held that the tax on the uninsured is constitutional because . . . wait for it . . . it’s a tax.
- The Republicans just repealed the tax.
- “Therefore,” (??!?) Obamacare is unconstitutional.
To which the Trumpster just replied, “Okeydokey, if you say it’s unconstitutional then it must be unconstitutional, I guess we’ll just shut it down.” Or more specifically, the Obamacare requirement that insurance companies cover customers with pre-existing conditions would be shut down.
BOOM! I lose my health coverage, and so do 77 million other Americans with pre-existing conditions. Including, quite possibly, you.
Act Two came this past week, when Trump cut off payments to insurance companies that insure patients with high medical expenses. Trump threatened to do this when he was first sworn in, to get leverage on a bill to repeal Obamacare. Trump’s argument, was, in essence, “we have to kill Obamacare before I kill it myself!” But Obamacare remained unkilled, so now he’s killing it.
And if the payments to insure patients with high medical expenses remain unpaid, then:
BOOM! I lose my health coverage, and so do millions of other Americans. Including, quite possibly, you.
We have reached the remarkable point where denying medical care to the sick and the poor is an express goal of those in power. Or, as someone said a few years ago:
The GOP Healthcare Plan: Don’t Get Sick. And if you do, Die Quickly.
Courage,
Alan Grayson, Congressman for reelection in FL, USA.