#deathpanel

France’s highest appeals court has ordered Quadriplegic Vincent Lambert’s food and water to be removed following a six-year-long legal battle for his life against the French single-payer healthcare system.

All for tax cuts for the rich

Ed Chavez originally shared:

Under the cover of all the ongoing distractions, the real #DeathPanel is hard at work.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/the_senate_s_health_care_secrecy_will_hurt_millions.html

The GOP health care bill would:

- eliminate Obamacare taxes on the wealthy, insurers and others

our health and care funds tax breaks

- get rid of the individual mandate imposed by Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act.

Guts funding for our health and care

- Instead of the Obamacare subsidies that are tied to income and premiums, the GOP plan would provide Americans with refundable tax credits based mainly on age to purchase health insurance.

because we all apparently earn millions to have a tax break enough to cover medical expenses

- allow insurers to charge higher premiums to those in their 50s and early 60s, compared to younger consumers.

- curtail federal support for Medicaid and allow states to require able-bodied adults to work.

- After 2020, states that expanded Medicaid would no longer receive enhanced federal funding to cover low-income adults, and those that hadn't expanded would be immediately barred from doing so.

- allow states to relax some key Obamacare protections of those with pre-existing conditions

- allow insurers to offer skimpier policies that don't cover the 10 essential health benefits mandated by Obamacare.

- insurers would be able to charge higher premiums to those with medical issues if they let their coverage lapse.

There you go, "*better*"

#DeathPanel

As they race to repeal large parts of the Affordable Care Act, President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are leaving behind nearly everyone but their base voters and a handful of conservative activists.

Not a single major organization representing patients, physicians, hospitals or others who work in the nation’s healthcare system backs the GOP’s Obamacare strategy.

New polls also show far more Americans would like to expand or keep the healthcare law, rather than repeal it.

Even many conservative health policy experts caution that the emerging Republican plan, which calls for a vote in January to roll back insurance coverage followed by a lengthy period to develop a replacement, could be disastrous.

Ed Chavez originally shared:

When sh*t gets real. If your goal is to simply repeal, you are f*cking killing people.

This is the real #DeathPanel  in case your brain doesn't get it.

The above cartoon is the kind of thing that the Conservative people in my life forward to me with a subject line of "Interesting" or "Spot on!"

The above cartoon  is the kind of thing that the Liberal people in my life also forward to me, but with a subject line of "Holy cow, this is hilarious!"