America’s Health Insurance Plans, the health insurer trade group, came out Wednesday against Republicans’ Hail Mary proposal to repeal Obamacare before the end of September.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the group’s president and CEO Marilyn B. Tavenner said Republicans’ latest proposal “fails to meet” the group’s standard for health care legislation.
“We believe that legislative proposals that would reform and affect the coverage and care of millions of Americans should meet certain principles,” Tavenner wrote.
She cited stabilization of the individual insurance market, allocation of sufficient resources to ensure Medicaid coverage, access to coverage for consumers with pre-existing conditions, elimination of taxes and fees that raise health care costs or reduce benefits and inclusion of time for health care providers and consumers to adapt to policy changes.
“The Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal fails to meet these guiding principles,” Tavenner wrote. “While we cannot support this proposal, we will keep working to find the right solutions that reflect the commitment we all share: affordable coverage and high-quality care for every American.”
Read the full letter:
Trump: It doesnt matter. I made a promise and I ALWAYS keep my promise. Our health care will never be BLACK.
But the GOP will lose $400 million in Koch money if they don’t pass this.
Gee, wonder which will win out, coverage for people or their money-masters?
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-26/koch-urgency-conservative-network-fears-closing-window
And in related hilarity…
Eternal Dumbass Republican Senator Bill Cassidy (Jagoff - Louisiana) and Eternal Motherfucker-Of-Them-All Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (Closet Case - South Carolina) have decided to take on Jimmy Kimmel over his criticism of their “healthcare bill”. Yes, this is going to work out quite well for them:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-pols-tell-kimmel-call-us-before-your-next-rant/ar-AAsgXHw?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
Graham is the smarmiest and one of the most unlikeable people in the Senate (besides the fact that he is a congenital liar), and Cassidy can barely put two words together without looking like a sad imitation of an Adam Sandler character, but they are going to take on Kimmel, who has a very personal stake in this healthcare debate because of his sick child.
Graham and Cassidy are telling Kimmel to call them before he criticizes their plan again. And I am sure Jimmy Kimmel is going to call them the lying motherfuckers that they are, although in much more civilized and witty terms than I can express.
Where is Sen. Graham, and what has Otis Campbell done with him?
And – even more importantly – why does Sen. Cassidy think he looks so dreamy?