I am pasting this latest email below I received from the "Intercept" which is a credible media source.
I
was so depressed over the latest Republican rancid attempt to repeal
and "replace" the ACA a/k/a Obamacare and pass the most draconian health
care bill ever denying coverage to millions that receiving this email
was some uplift. The media yesterday was saying Republicans were close
to having the votes to pass it (i.e. Republicans lied) but according to
the source below maybe not and there is hope for it to end up on the
ash bin of history!!
Thank
you Jimmy Kimmel for being so
passionate about your newborn son's poignant example of why the ACA is
so
important to so many. If a newborn child comes into this world with a
preexisting condition (as Jimmy Kimmel's newborn son did) this dastardly
Republican bill
would not have to pay, in pertinent example, for the baby's heart
surgery because it would be considered a pre-existing condition. It
will make it prohibitive of the child ever getting heath insurance or
making it cost prohibitive for those who have preexisting conditions.
It is an abomination. Kimmel was angry and said so on his show
reaching millions revealing Senator Cassidy to be in essence a liar.
When Republican liars get exposed and the
man behind the curtain uncovered to be a child healthcare predator denying even the most
innocent among us a shot at life the Republicans unethical character is revealed. I could not imagine that the three
Republicans who were cheered when they and McCain voted thumbs down
on the last insane healthcare bill would now support this worse one. I can only hope they won't.
From the "Intercept" by Ryan Grim:
It’s often said about politics that perception is reality. As true as
that can often be, sometimes reality manages to break through. And that
appears to be what’s happening this week to the latest effort by Senate
Republicans to repeal and replace Obamacare.
After several weeks of trying, the bill’s authors, Sens. Lindsey
Graham and Bill Cassidy, weren’t any closer to getting the 50 votes they
needed to pass the measure by the deadline of Sept. 30th. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain hadn’t budged, and Rand Paul had added himself to the no column.
So Graham and Cassidy bluffed, and began telling the press they were
extremely close, their whip counts had them right there within striking
distance. Democrats and progressive groups responded with a full-scale
mobilization in defense, and all of a sudden we were shooting with real
bullets again. Except we weren’t. While McCain, a good friend of
Graham’s, is a question mark, none of the others have shown any sign of
wobbling. Without those three, Republicans are short of the votes. Yes,
having 49 votes is close, but it’s no closer than they were in July,
when the effort died last time.
Much of the focus has been on Murkowski, who just a few weeks ago
told her summer interns that helping block repeal last time was the
greatest difference-making vote she’d ever cast, something she’d done on
principle. It’s hard to imagine how she moves from there to the other
side, but even if it were possible, today made it that much less likely.
This morning, Alaskan press reported that the Republican governor was
thumbs-down on Graham-Cassidy. After all, a quarter of the state relies
on Medicaid. Then around lunchtime, he signed a letter with other
governors urging the Senate not to act on Graham-Cassidy.
That led to an unusual experience for me: the chance to inform Graham
himself that the Alaska governor, the man he needed to help persuade
Murkowski to come on board, had come out against his bill. After Senate
Republicans had lunch with Vice President Mike Pence to chart the path
forward, I asked Graham if he (Graham) was disappointed in the
governor’s announcement, and whether he had spoken with him beforehand.
It quickly became clear this was the first time he was hearing about it.
“When was the announcement?” he asked, adding that he doesn’t know the
governor personally.
Later, Murkowski explained to reporters the crux of the governor’s
objection: it wasn’t about ideology or conservative politics. It was
about the cuts in health care spending. In other words, it was about
reality.
“If I get half as much money, flexibility doesn’t help me,” Murkowski
said her governor explained, a nugget of policy wisdom folks might want
to keep close at hand.
With Collins and Paul presumed solid no votes, Republicans can’t lose
Murkowski. Unless a political earthquake hits, they already have.
Meanwhile, Republicans are cooking up a $1.5 trillion tax cut and the children’s health insurance program (CHIP) is about to expire next week.
It’s too bad for Republicans that they likely won’t get a vote on the
repeal-and-replace bill, because they came up with a new plan to amend
it to ban states from pursuing single-payer plans on their own. That’s a
flexible understanding of state flexibility!
AGAIN
PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE OR EVERY ONE YOU CHOOSE!! STILL, CALL, SIT IN
REPUBLICAN OFFICES IF YOU CAN, SMOKE SIGNAL, TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE, I
PHONE, OR IN ANY FASHION YOU CHOOSE RESIST!
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