So, the usual mouth breathers are back on this board glorifying the GOP for not spending their tax money to pay for insurance for the poor.
For some reason that is beyond me, they simply do not understand the following facts:
1. Uninsureds get most of their health care through a combination of government and hospital programs that are then paid for by the insureds through taxes and hospital cost shifting, which is passed on to these same mouth breathers through taxes and higher health insurance premiums. Government subsidized premiums for the poor make such cost shifting unnecessary.
2. The latest version of the GOP plan announced this weekend penalize the uninsured for not buying insurance, by giving them a 6 month waiting period before being eligible to buy insurance. Yes, you heard that right! The GOP, in their wisdom, want to prevent the adverse selection that will happen if the healthy opt out, by making them uninsured EVEN LONGER. The adverse selection from those that opt out is the very thing that is killing ACA, and the GOP plan is to MAKE IT EVEN WORSE!
I left the Republican party when Baby Bush was elected because I suddenly realized that the IQ level over there had dropped to around 70.