The Republican party (Not saying all Republicans but certainly the leadership and many of them) do not really care about Health Care, they just want it as a talking point before moving on to what they consider more important matters.
Just look at the facts.
- They have been saying Repeal and Replace Obama Care for over 7 years, yet never in all that time did they come up with an actual plan.
- The House comes up with a plan that is so rushed and half baked it fails to get past their own party in the first vote and they then punt to the Senate hoping they will fix it. They did this so they could "move on to more important matters such as tax reform"
- The Senate comes up with a plan in secret meetings that most of their own party refuse to support. They tried to do it so fast so they could have a talking point and say "We did something!" before the July recess.
- The so called Health Plan is really just a tax cut to the wealthiest Americans and Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies and CEOs.
- Both plans break the promises President Trump made on the campaign trail when he said he would not cut Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security and that premiums and deductibles would be lowered.
I am not saying this should be easy but for crying out loud if something is important to you wouldn't you actually work on it? This has been like high school students cramming the night before finals who never studied the rest of the year!
Despite this being 1/6 of the economy and vital to the lives and well being of millions of Americans they just do not seem to be willing to put serious work and thought into it.
If I was Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnel or heck anyone on say the Health and Human services committee or had been complaining about it for so long I would have actually worked with my colleagues and come up with a plan during those 7 years.
Wouldn't you?
All this is about is wanting to complain about something you have no clue how to improve and wanting to make the other guys look bad so you can look better. It is not real leadership and it shows they really do not care about governing and trying to help America, only line their pockets and those of their biggest donors. the biggest effort here was how to cut taxes for those groups and we will see much more effort put into the tax cut plan when they move onto it.
Please remember this and VOTE in 2018! Lets kick as many of these people out as we can and get some people who are honest in.
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