How Republicans Plan to RATION Health Care
It looks as if Republicans want to bring back health care rationing.
In 2010, Mark Price, a 37-year-old resident of Goodyear, Ariz., was struggling to pay the bills for his leukemia treatment. His house was under foreclosure. He had insurance through Medicaid, and yet he died after the state said it would not pay for a potentially lifesaving bone marrow transplant.
Facing a $2.6 billion budget deficit, Gov. Jan Brewer and Arizona Republicans had opted to ration care, eliminating state payments for bone marrow, liver, heart, lung and other transplants ...
If the Republicans replace the Affordable Care Act with the plan released on Monday, we should expect more stories like those.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/how-republicans-plan-to-ration-health-care.html
We need to KEEP TELLING STORIES ABOUT CONSEQUENCES.
Republicans love emotional arguments, let's give 'em some ...
They LOVE TO (MIS)USE LANGUAGE ...
Let's re-lable and re-frame EVERY WORD OF THEIR NONSENSE INTO REAL-LIFE CONSEQUENCES.
People intuitively understand "RATIONING" ...