When Does the GOP Stop Whining about Obamacare and Do Something?

OH, FOR GOD’S SAKES! When are Republicans “snowflakes”—a term the right loves to throw in liberal faces—going to quit crying about Obamacare? It’s a bat shit crazy blizzard! Once again, they’re in a tax-slashing tizzy because Anthem is pulling out of the Ohio insurance market.

You just figured out Obamacare was “failing?” You’ve been parroting that line for seven years. You giant pack of assholes! You voted fifty times to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. You warned, even before it became law, there would be “death panels” for granny if it passed. You scared dimwits across America with that line of preexisting manure. You promised you were going to repeal and replace Obamacare as soon as you had a chance. You only needed a Republican president.

You have him. 

True, he’s a tweeting nitwit, but even a tweeting nitwit could sign any bill your GOP-controlled Congress managed to slap on his desk in the Oval Office. You can get it done tomorrow. You can kick 24 million people off insurance under GOP Plan #1, or 23 million under GOP Plan #2, any time the Senate moves to grant approval. 

President Obama can’t stop you.

You know who else can’t stop you? President Truman! He’s dead. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR—all long, long gone. 

They have the same power to stop you as Mr. Obama.

GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF YOUR collective asses. Louie Gohmert, you and your Tea Party pals shut down the government in 2013 in a vain effort to destroy Obamacare. What’s wrong, you fair weather fanatic! Shut everything down now if you want to do something “constructive” in regard to denying health care to your fellow citizens. You shouldn’t need to. Your party has 52 votes in the U.S. Senate. Mitch McConnell jimmied the rules. You need 50 “ayes” and a tie-breaker from the Vice President to get a plan through the Senate.

You control the levers of power. Pull them, you candy-ass cowards.

If you want to eliminate the 3.8% tax on incomes above $250,000 that helped make it possible to cover people with preexisting conditions, do the deed and live with the political and moral consequences. You can’t cut taxes and cover everyone Obamacare covered. You can’t repeal and replace basic addition and subtraction. If you want to take a chance on letting kids with cancer die or let families go bankrupt because sons or daughters were unlucky, make the bold call. But don’t forget, in 2010, 62% of all bankruptcies in this country were a result of catastrophic medical bills. Obamacare didn’t fix that problem; but it helped. It absolutely didn’t cause it. 

The real dilemma is the high cost of health care. The United States is the most expensive place in the world to get sick and seek care.

Maybe that’s the fundamental problem—and you can’t solve it by slinging typical right-wing bullshit.

Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act isn't going to address the main problem.

Maybe a good place to start with cuts would involve taking a look at salaries for top health care executives. According to Bloomberg, “Among the 200 top-paid U.S. executives at public companies, those in health care and pharmaceutical businesses were awarded average pay packages of $37 million in their most recent fiscal year.” No other business sector had executives who did better. Why, you have to wonder, how Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson and Johnson does it! Gorsky had to pinch pennies annually, under Obamacare, earning only $103 million between 2012 and 2016.

Starvation wages!

How do these poor health care executives manage!

What about those poor drug companies! Pfizer had a 42% profit in 2014! Sure, they dipped to 14.2% in 2016. Then again, Gilead Science made a 55% profit that year, Biogene Idec 33%, Amgen 32%. Johnson and Johnson, leader in the field with $70 billion in revenue, made a paltry $16.54 billion in profit in 2016. 

Who can live with that lousy 22% return!

TRUE, PROFITS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER if the Justice Department under Obama had quit suing them for illegal business practices and slapping them on their greedy wrists for defrauding Medicare. Ten top settlements between 2009 and 2014 forced Big Pharma to cough up $13 billion in penalties.

You can look it up if you don’t believe me. But, nooooooooooooooooo, don’t dare regulate these pirates!

You don’t need to worry about kindergartners who develop type-1 diabetes or babies born with heart defects. You need to give tax cuts to the Koch brothers! Those billionaires, Charles and David, are headed for the poorhouse with only $41 billion a piece. That’s why they decided to donate $889 million to GOP candidates in 2016.

They can’t survive under their tax burden.

You want to run on your “accomplishments,” you political poltroons? You want to say you repealed health care and gave huge tax cuts to the richest among us? 

Democrats can’t stop you.

You had seven years in opposition to work out a plan. You voted to repeal and replace again and again. Now your base is counting on you—well, not counting the significant portion that will wake up soon, if you pass your plan, and realize they too lost their coverage.

IF OBAMACARE IS TERRIBLE, if it’s failing, if insurers are pulling out (and by the way, Anthem pulled out of Ohio because the company said it has no way of knowing what you boneheads are planning, particularly in regard to subsidies), you are in charge. The buck doesn’t stop with Obama. 

The buck stops with Donald J. Trump.

You bitched about Obamacare for the best part of a decade. You ran nonstop against it in 2016. You’ve had control of both required branches of government to repeal and replace, for months now.

Dry you crying eyes. 

Get something, anything, passed, no matter how terrible, and place it on President Trump’s desk pronto.

OR, ARE YOU LIKE THE DOG that chased the car? Only you caught the ambulance. Don’t blame our side because you have no clue what to do with it.

Woof, you fools.

Woof!