Today three Senate Republicans--Coburn, Hatch, and Burr--offered up a mandate-abolishing healthcare bill they humorously called a "real alternative" to Obamacare.
It's officially called the CARE Act, for Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment, wherein choice again means chancey, it again ain't affordable, Republicans again evade responsibility for better healthcare access and private insurers are again empowered to screw the hell out of the 'Patient,' which actually precedes 'CARE,' meaning the real acronym is P-CARE, as in, they're peeing on it.
The CARE Act would require insurers to offer policies to anyone who has proof of "continuous coverage" ... But those with pre-existing conditions that fail to maintain continuous coverage at any time could be denied coverage.
Nearly 90 million Americans have a pre-existing condition. That's quite the crack to fall through.
And with that, I'm taking the flu I've had since 6 a.m. and going to bed, perchance to dream of that undiscovered country in which Republican pols offer something serious.
On the bright side they just might find some money for stimulus construction. Under their proposed plan their won't be nearly enough ditches for Americans to crawl into and die. They are going to have to fund a lot of ditches.
Posted by: Peter G | January 28, 2014 at 06:57 PM