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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSherrod Brown lists the pre-existing conditions that will be lost under Trumpcare
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017 04:15 PM EDT
As the Ohio senator notes, real people will suffer if this bill becomes law
MATTHEW ROZSA
Earlier this week, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue, describing how his newborn son had nearly died because of a heart ailment and declaring that before Obamacare if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you wouldnt be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition. Added Kimmel: If your baby is going to die, and it doesnt have to, it shouldnt matter how much money you make. I think thats something that, whether youre a Republican or a Democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right?
While its easy to analyze Republicans ongoing effort to repeal Obamacare from a strictly analytical perspective, it is necessary at times to realize that there is a human toll to their plan for letting insurance companies charge higher premiums based on pre-existing conditions. Emotion as well as reason is vital when making that case, a fact that Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio clearly recognized when he began tweeting on Thursday.
He didnt tell a personal story. He just listed the conditions that could cause someone to have skyrocketing health insurance costs under the proposed Republican system. And it was a very, very, very long list.
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http://www.salon.com/2017/05/04/sen-sherrod-brown-lists-the-preexisting-conditions-that-will-be-lost-under-trumpcare/
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)freaking republicans have obviously been seduced by Satan, Inc. (R)
deplorable
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Wouldn't it REDUCE your chances of cancer?
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)Bastards!
Cha
(297,655 posts)they're going to get FUBAR
Silver Swan
(1,110 posts)If you have ever sought medical care, even if it was concluded that no treatment was needed, you have a "pre-existing condition."
mopinko
(70,208 posts)i mean, really. can we cut it down to life threatening illnesses?
i can only hope that the sheer stupid of this leads us to single payer.
panader0
(25,816 posts)There's a lot more of the alphabet left.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)breathing, eating, and sleeping.
niyad
(113,552 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)you probably have some pre-existing condition. You might not even know you have it.
A quick google search of what real human beings have already been denied coverage for before the ACA will disgust you.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)Impotence is a sign of God's will! No more Viagra coverage for privileged white men.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)(For me, MS, diabetes and Bipolar Depression), but I can be denied for an additional four (at least) from Brown's list.
"This joke isn't funny, anymore."
Lyricalinklines
(367 posts)The medical community (doctors, hospitals, etc) aren't backing the house voted plan. What criteria did they use?
volstork
(5,403 posts)In other words, anything that will cost them more money.
The way I see it, buying insurance is placing a bet; you bet you will get sick, the insurance companies bet you will stay well. If you get sick you have won the bet; however, the way the system is rigged now, even if you "win," you lose, because they renege on their side of the deal. I have dealt with insurance companies from both sides of the bedrail, and they are shysters out for their bottom line ONLY.
Tying the moral imperative of universal provision of healthcare to profit and greed is a fools errand. The rest of the world has largely figured this out. We have not, nor are we likely to get much traction with the clowns in charge.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)VigilantG
(374 posts)Can get it through their heads.
What will it take ?!!!?
llmart
(15,552 posts)I know quite a few male fat f*****s pictured at Trump rallies who aren't going to like that diabetes is one of them.
They're a walking advertisement of pre-existing conditions!!!
Why does the old saying, "Be careful what you wish for" come to mind?
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)I'd place the odds pretty high that almost ALL of them have one or more.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)They exempted themselves. They KNOW how bad this POS is and passed it anyway. And then celebrated.