Can you explain like I’m five this new healthcare bullshit?

jonlovett:

pitcherplant:

emolumentsclause-deactivated201:

basically:

• the AHCA, aka american health care act, is the replacement for the ACA, aka the affordable care act, aka obamacare.
• house republicans initially wanted to vote on it in march, however, it was a fucking terrible bill that didn’t have enough support from moderates OR the far-right freedom caucus to pass the house.
• since then, it’s been changed in committee to make it even crueler and leaner: it revoked the rule against healthcare companies discriminating against people with preexisting conditions/allows them to charge people with preexisting conditions more, namely. which got the freedom caucus on board. hence: it just passed the house.
• there’s so much wrong with this bill (it’s terrible for women’s health coverage, could eliminate all “essential health benefits” which are the 10 or so types of treatment that are mandatory for insurance to cover, severely decreases the tax credits people who purchased their healthcare through the obamacare marketplace receive to pay for it, etc.). but most importantly, the congressional budget office has not yet completed an evaluation of how much the bill will cost and how many people will lose insurance. repeat: house republicans just voted yes on a bill that represents 1/6 of the economy with NO IDEA how much it will cost or how many people it will hurt. they “let’s just do it and be legends, man”-ed the health care system.
• honestly i think it’s safe to say that the AHCA is the legislative equivalent of the fyre festival.
• it has yet to be voted on by the senate, so there’s still hope, obviously. call your senators. SLAM them. 

adding on that blowback for your representatives is also pretty key here. town hall if you can, go to their offices, call them every day if you must. and find out who’s running against them in the midterms. get these fucks out. 

yep. this needs to be everyone in a red/swing district or whose representative voted for this monstrosity of a bill. 

35 republicans in critical swing districts voted yes. here’s the list. we’re going to decimate them in 2018.

Putting this in here so I remember to contribute tomorrow.
To his credit, the lone NYC republican voted NO on this because he rightly said that NYC is getting doubly screwed – we have laws on the books that mandate women health including abortion (as everyone should!), and for that reason the new law makes us pay extra taxes but make us ineligible even for any measly remaining benefits since they all would go to the red states.
F.ckers.