Republicans believe that Americans with insurance are willing to say to those who lack it, "let them die," one Democratic congressman is charging.
On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked how the GOP would cover the 30 million uninsured Americans estimated to be insured under the Affordable Care Act. "That's not the issue," he replied. Other top Republicans have similarly declined to explain their party's plan for covering the uninsured.
Appearing on PoliticsNation Monday, Nadler said of the GOP:
Their calculation has been from the very beginning of this debate that most Americans have insurance and they don't care abut those who don't. Thirty million Americans is about 10 percent, and they're assuming that the 90 percent of Americans don't care about the 10 percent of Americans. Let them die. Let them die. 42,000 Americans die for lack of health insurance every year. Now the truth is that I don't think the American people are that callous.
Not only have Republicans failed to offer a constructive alternative to the law, but many state-level Republicans are doing everything they can to obstruct its implementation. Many have seized on the Supreme Court's ruling last week that states could not be penalized for failing to expand Medicaid under the law, saying they intend not to do so, even though it amounts to leaving billions of federal dollars on the table.
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The current leaders of the GOP do not care about their country anymore. These current GOP leaders just care about the plutocrats at the top of the ladder who fund their campaigns. 45,000 uninsured Americans die from treatable conditions. 50 million Americans are uninsured. One million bankruptcies happen because of expensive medical bills. The U.S. ranked 36th in world standings for medical outcomes despite spending twice as much per capita. The U.K., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France and the northern Scandinavian countries all pay half as much for universal health care and their health care outcomes are much better than in America. We also pay $1100 per uninsured patient so let's stop kidding ourselves about the real cost of those 50 million uninsured. At least 20 million more Americans are under-insured. A family policy in America costs $13,000 annually today double what it did in 1999.
The ACA is not a perfect bill but it could well be an excellent program if fully implemented and funded fully. Universal coverage could dramatically reduce health care costs in America because the uninsured are much of the problem. Treating conditions earlier and preventing them in the first place in a clinic setting by a family practitioner would almost certainly reduce and stabilize health care costs almost immediately. Universal coverage with a family practitioner is the key to the success of the British, Canadian, Australian, and Western European industrialized countries success in medicine. Its not the latest high tech gadgets and latest pills that matter its well baby programs, pediatric care, women's health programs including family planning, and routine family care that pulls these countries up over America. We need to somehow do the same and the ACA is a huge step in that direction.
Sure. People will die if we don't tax whatever's left & use it to create even more patronage jobs that have very little to do with health care. It's the same old cheap politician's trick from a cheap politician. It's just like pretending that previous worthless bureaucracies are necessary, as though if we eliminate the Department of Education that students will somehow be unable to learn, & if we eliminate the Department of Energy the sun will wink out. All this program will do is raise taxes even more and make health care completely unaffordable - note that the program doesn't increase the supply of doctors, so there will be more people demanding that a doctor look at their stubbed toe (increased demand) at the expense of their neighbor with no increase in supply. The price will go up, and/or you won't be able to get someone to examine your angina because a loafing hypochondriac is taking up your doctor's time at your expense.
Aren't Republicans the ones who always "PRETEND" to be so "CHRISTIAN"??