Republicans' new healthcare bill would bar transgender healthcare as an essential health benefit, bar trans medicaid coverage, and would bar HSAs from considering trans healthcare medically necessary.
The Democrats screwed up the messaging on ending the shutdown, but the political reality is that they were never going to win. The longer the shutdown dragged on, the more damage it did to ordinary Americans, and Republicans seemed to be fine with that. There was no way the Democrats, a party that at least occasionally displays actual human empathy, could let that continue forever. They made their point and moved on.
Would a longer shutdown have done even more political damage to Republicans, who are already extremely unpopular? Maybe, but at what cost?
Would a longer shutdown have forced Republicans to actually extend ACA subsidies? Not a chance.
True. Republicans have removed the linkage between holding power and the electoral process in most districts of most red states. This means they can be as extreme as they want and needn't be concerned about voter pushback at all. Dems will ALWAYS lose a game of political chicken because Republicans can crash the car every time and never be held accountable.
I too am embittered over Dem lack of cohesion, fight, and allyship, but ultimately they are still accountable to the voters, GOPMAGAs are NOT.
Until campaign and electoral reform, GOPMAGAs will continue to have enormous institutionalized advantages and they will continue to use that power to genocide us. We cannot let Dems forget that our lives are FIRST ON THE FRONT, before anyone else! When politicized genocide comes to call, our doors will hear the knock FIRST.
I think the democrats gave in to soon if they stood their ground it would have put more focus on the republicans. Yes I know it was difficult for many, but a little more time I think the republicans would have shown up for how little they care about the average citizen
It's wrong to blame any Democratic lawmaker or leader when the American people were dumb enough to give Republicans control of our government. Let's focus on reality, please.
I just don't understand it. Private healthcare isn't even their money, or public money, or anyone's money other that the taxes that go into the Healthcare industry, and even then, that money is the money everyone is paying to get their healthcare anyways. It's our money. It's our own money. It should be useable for whatever we want to use it for. For fuck's sake.
If you Centrist Democrats don’t take everything that is meant to harm the Trans Community out of the proposed bill then your Asses will be on the “Chopping Block “ as well and we’ll make sure we get you OUT OF OFFICE FOREVER!!! 👿👿
They could care less about access to healthcare or controlling the costs of healthcare. All they care about is stoking hate. This would reduce healthcare spending by 0.0003%. So glad that I am leaving the cesspool america has become.😤
I called both my Senators- Wyden and Merkley. I am thinking of making a recording to play at these calls, I make them so often! Perhaps we should make calls to the Dems who caved and let them know we expect them to make sure a healthcare bill passes without any Trans-hate riders.
This is not a plan at all. This is 100% still toting an eliminationist protocol. Along with stripping transgender Americans of the same services guaranteed for other Americans (ie, healthcare - we are American citizens, so the actual idea it is acceptable to discriminate against us is in the first place is bigoted and vile from the start), the remainder of their "plan" would do zero for anyone barely scraping by. The government doesn't contribute to HSA's; they're entirely built from the individual's contributions to them. What happens to the millions in this country who barely make enough to buy food? More audible panderings of "tough luck" from Republicans?
The only way to truly fix healthcare in this country is to eliminate the health insurance companies altogether and go with a single payer system, health coverage for all American citizens under the Constitution. Scratch the surface even slightly and you'll see that both framers of this bill, Crapo and Cassidy, both receive campaign contributions from numerous PACs and individuals tied in with these very insurance companies. Of course they won't suggest removing the insurance companies from the equation - it's the hand that feeds them.
We need for-profit insurance companies deleted from the healthcare scenario and a single payer universal healthcare for all agenda. Trans healthcare ABSOLUTELY included, same as every other American citizen.
I'm running for United States Congress in Wisconsin's 8th District House Congressional to fight for trans people and all Americans so that healthcare is not only covered for ALL Americans but is guaranteed for ALL Americans. As a trans woman candidate, I promise you on my life I will not stop until it is fixed.
Very hesitant to share the view that this has no path to passage. And even more doubtful that it will fail over the trans provisions- the current composition of Democrats have been all too willing to bargain away trans lives.
Sacrificing anyone let alone trans gender care should be a no starter for democrats. Democrats must never give way to republican bullshit, all they are trying to do is get democrats to bend to get the necessary ACA extension which republicans have been fighting for years to get rid of. Republicans don’t care about the people they swore to represent. Their healthcare is given to them and paid for by the taxpayers along with many other perks paid for by us the taxpayers. What would happen if they had to pay for their own healthcare I’ll bet it would be a very different story.
They want us dead. I am convinced of this.
We can thank Schumer and his pals in the Senate for this. Had they stayed the course then we wouldn’t be worried about this right now.
The Democrats screwed up the messaging on ending the shutdown, but the political reality is that they were never going to win. The longer the shutdown dragged on, the more damage it did to ordinary Americans, and Republicans seemed to be fine with that. There was no way the Democrats, a party that at least occasionally displays actual human empathy, could let that continue forever. They made their point and moved on.
Would a longer shutdown have done even more political damage to Republicans, who are already extremely unpopular? Maybe, but at what cost?
Would a longer shutdown have forced Republicans to actually extend ACA subsidies? Not a chance.
True. Republicans have removed the linkage between holding power and the electoral process in most districts of most red states. This means they can be as extreme as they want and needn't be concerned about voter pushback at all. Dems will ALWAYS lose a game of political chicken because Republicans can crash the car every time and never be held accountable.
I too am embittered over Dem lack of cohesion, fight, and allyship, but ultimately they are still accountable to the voters, GOPMAGAs are NOT.
Until campaign and electoral reform, GOPMAGAs will continue to have enormous institutionalized advantages and they will continue to use that power to genocide us. We cannot let Dems forget that our lives are FIRST ON THE FRONT, before anyone else! When politicized genocide comes to call, our doors will hear the knock FIRST.
I think the democrats gave in to soon if they stood their ground it would have put more focus on the republicans. Yes I know it was difficult for many, but a little more time I think the republicans would have shown up for how little they care about the average citizen
"Ordinary Americans" let this happen so I'm honestly fine with them taking one for the team.
Stay engaged! Stay strong! Vote! The pendulum will be swinging back the other way in a few months. It is already started to swing!!!
It's wrong to blame any Democratic lawmaker or leader when the American people were dumb enough to give Republicans control of our government. Let's focus on reality, please.
The cruelty is the point. They know we'll start killing ourselves. That isn't a bug, it's a feature to them.
I just don't understand it. Private healthcare isn't even their money, or public money, or anyone's money other that the taxes that go into the Healthcare industry, and even then, that money is the money everyone is paying to get their healthcare anyways. It's our money. It's our own money. It should be useable for whatever we want to use it for. For fuck's sake.
If you Centrist Democrats don’t take everything that is meant to harm the Trans Community out of the proposed bill then your Asses will be on the “Chopping Block “ as well and we’ll make sure we get you OUT OF OFFICE FOREVER!!! 👿👿
They could care less about access to healthcare or controlling the costs of healthcare. All they care about is stoking hate. This would reduce healthcare spending by 0.0003%. So glad that I am leaving the cesspool america has become.😤
I try really hard not to hate other people, but Republicans make that very very difficult.
I called both my Senators- Wyden and Merkley. I am thinking of making a recording to play at these calls, I make them so often! Perhaps we should make calls to the Dems who caved and let them know we expect them to make sure a healthcare bill passes without any Trans-hate riders.
This is not a plan at all. This is 100% still toting an eliminationist protocol. Along with stripping transgender Americans of the same services guaranteed for other Americans (ie, healthcare - we are American citizens, so the actual idea it is acceptable to discriminate against us is in the first place is bigoted and vile from the start), the remainder of their "plan" would do zero for anyone barely scraping by. The government doesn't contribute to HSA's; they're entirely built from the individual's contributions to them. What happens to the millions in this country who barely make enough to buy food? More audible panderings of "tough luck" from Republicans?
The only way to truly fix healthcare in this country is to eliminate the health insurance companies altogether and go with a single payer system, health coverage for all American citizens under the Constitution. Scratch the surface even slightly and you'll see that both framers of this bill, Crapo and Cassidy, both receive campaign contributions from numerous PACs and individuals tied in with these very insurance companies. Of course they won't suggest removing the insurance companies from the equation - it's the hand that feeds them.
We need for-profit insurance companies deleted from the healthcare scenario and a single payer universal healthcare for all agenda. Trans healthcare ABSOLUTELY included, same as every other American citizen.
I'm running for United States Congress in Wisconsin's 8th District House Congressional to fight for trans people and all Americans so that healthcare is not only covered for ALL Americans but is guaranteed for ALL Americans. As a trans woman candidate, I promise you on my life I will not stop until it is fixed.
https://devilleforcongress.com
Now we count who stands against the child abusers.
Very hesitant to share the view that this has no path to passage. And even more doubtful that it will fail over the trans provisions- the current composition of Democrats have been all too willing to bargain away trans lives.
Every human should have equal access to healthcare that is on a par with everyone else.
Is there anything about Medicare in this bill?
It was the wicked right’s plan all along to blame us for people losing healthcare, something the gop was going to do anyway regardless of us
And too many Dems are taking the chance to blame us for their own inability to reach voters on issues that matter
With them going after our families it’s only going to get worse
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/when-trump-decides-who-gets-to-be-a-parent
Sacrificing anyone let alone trans gender care should be a no starter for democrats. Democrats must never give way to republican bullshit, all they are trying to do is get democrats to bend to get the necessary ACA extension which republicans have been fighting for years to get rid of. Republicans don’t care about the people they swore to represent. Their healthcare is given to them and paid for by the taxpayers along with many other perks paid for by us the taxpayers. What would happen if they had to pay for their own healthcare I’ll bet it would be a very different story.