Day 646 Wednesday October 24, 2018 935 Days to Go
Are you planning to vote Republican in the upcoming election? Do you have a pre-existing medical condition or know someone who does? Are you willing to not let that pre-existing condition be covered by medical insurance? Because if so the White House and the Republican party has your back.
The coverage for pre-existing conditions is the most important thing to voters according to the latest Fox News poll. Republicans in Congress and in state governments are working hard to get rid of that coverage. Now that a majority of folks like not only the coverage for pre-existing conditions and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) known as Obamacare the Republicans have changed their tune, not their actions, just their tune. They now say that they are for coverage of pre-existing conditions: always were, always have been, always will be. One little tiny problem with their statements. In Congress the Republicans voted 70 times to repeal Obamacare – And failed. You’d think they’d get the hint, but NO. Then they brought suits in court via a bunch of states. One guy running for office as attorney general has an ad running saying he’s for coverage of pre-existing conditions while he is the guy representing his state in court to get rid of it!
But there’s more, many of these Republicans are running ads saying they are for coverage of pre-existing conditions when their record is one of consistently voting and working against it. Be it Dean Heller in Nevada or Ric Scott in Florida, they have done whatever they could to chip away at the ACA. They’ve managed a few little things. They’ve not expanded coverage in some states thus denying coverage to many citizens, but even so twenty million more people have gotten health insurance coverage than before. Insurance companies have had to cover pre-existing conditions and have not been allowed to offer crappy plans. But not to worry! The White House this week dropped the rule about crappy plans and coverage of pre-existing conditions. So you Republican voters can take comfort that big insurance can screw you again – just like old times, before Obamacare!
So is that the worse news of the day? Oh no. That’s just a warm up.
But that’s a far as I got yesterday (Wednesday) when I was writing this and I forgot the big news.
Maybe, it was the speech by Putin saying America was in decline and Trump was a big help in that, and that Trump takes direction from Vlad very well. Whatever it was it’s been eclipsed by the bad news of the next day.
Ever onward to the next screed!
Wait! I remember. John Bolton is going to Russia to renege on our arms deal with Russia that Reagan and Gorbachev signed that has kept nuclear tipped rockets out of Europe. Why? Because Donnie says, “It’s unfair.”
PS Who would have thought this was a French table wine?
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