Bottom Line: It costs the moneyed set nothing if people

[MineralMan]

get sick and die. OTOH, it does cost money to keep people healthy, regardless of their income.

And that's the reason for the push to repeal the ACA. By doing so, people who already have plenty will have more. The rest of us? Well they don't care about all that. If people who are living on the edge, economically die, it's nothing to the ruling class in this country.

We made an enormous mistake in November. The impact of that has not even begun to become apparent. It's more than worrisome.

[Yavin4]

1. Saw a doctor on Morning Joe. Doc said that the key to better health is through life long

health management of hereditary diseases, not life saving surgeries or treatments.

[Blue_Tires]

2. I don't think it was a 'mistake', I think the country knew what Trump was

and decided to vote for him anyway, which really, really scares me...

[MineralMan]

4. I don't. I think ordinary people have little to no understanding

of how healthcare works on a national basis. Many people have been heard saying that they liked ACA but hated Obamacare. They don't understand. A lot of people who voted for Trump did so because he spoke out against brown people and immigrants. I hate to say that, but I think that won the election for him.

Those same people are going to be up poop street before long when they get sick. Then they'll know.

[yurbud]

3. GOP is the party of Cut Rich People's Taxes even if everyone else dies.

[ymetca]

5. In many cases they actually benefit from our deaths...

Like corporations taking out "peasant policies" on their employees. And the younger you die, the bigger the payout.

Health insurance IS the problem. It is the sickness that is destroying our Democracy.