Patients Who Rely on Obamacare Protections Are Worried

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Fran Cannon Slayton, a children’s book author with brain cancer, has summoned a hopeful energy since her diagnosis last year. But she is near despair about the resurfaced Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which the White House and Republicans are pushing for a vote as soon as this week.

“I don’t think people really understand how serious this is,” said Ms. Slayton, 50, of Charlottesville, Va.

Her chief concern is the amendment to the Republican bill that would allow states to opt out of several requirements, including what some say is the crux of the current health law: the ban against insurance companies charging higher premiums to people, like Ms. Slayton, with pre-existing medical conditions.

The complex amendment to the bill has stunned Ms. Slayton and other Americans with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses who rely on the law’s protections, not least because President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have consistently promised to make sure sick people will not face the same discrimination they did in the past.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/health/obamacare-patients-preexisting-conditions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region

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1. They should be

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2. no shit....republicans ONLY take away from the people...give nothing.

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3. Good. They need to worry when they vote for skinflint Republicans

who coddle the rich and say to hell with everybody else.

Maybe they'll be worried enough to add their voices to the deluge of phone calls these guys are getting.

Nothing will make a Republican congressman do the right thing except being more afraid of the voters than he is of the lobbyists.

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4. the most telling part of the evilness of this bill is that they exempted themselves from it

if they were proud of what was coming forward, they would not do that.
I can tell you that Texas under republican rule is a mean, cruel and heartless state to the poor.
The middle class is about to get a taste of the same viciousness that the poor have felt for a long time here because I would bet money that Texas will exempt it.

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6. i bet damned near every republican governor will file for an exemption ....all 33 of them.

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7. I would bet my life savings on that--or they will at least try. n/t

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5. I'm heartbroken for those of that group who voted for Clinton.

The others, not so much.