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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 2597326" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>Guys like VT and OF are so enamored with Trumps nationalist/ populist rhetoric that they pay no attention to the legislation the hard right will soon vote on. In my state a study shows that the impact of the repeal of Obamacare is as follows. 1.2 million residents of the state will lose their insurance ( and contrary to the belief of some they are not all system gaming &quot;relief rats&quot;.)&nbsp; The state&#039;s budget deficit will go from 1.7 billion to 3.3 billion annually .&nbsp; 137,000 health care workers will lose their jobs and a sizable majority of the state&#039;s small rural hospitals will cease to exist. Our line haul contractor and his wife were paying $ 1700 a month&nbsp; for a basic health care plan. That&#039;s&nbsp; over $ 20,000 a year and were&nbsp;&nbsp; grateful and relieved to make it to Medicare only to discover that Ryan and the boys are going to &quot;save&quot; and&nbsp; &quot;reform&quot; Medicare by&nbsp;&nbsp; eliminating Medicare as we know it and replace it with a voucher so low that it wouldn&#039;t even begin to cover the premiums for a private policy. Now guys like OF and VT are no spring chickens and in the not too distant future will begin to consume a lot of healthcare and it will become ever more costly over time. The question is how much of their personal fortune are they willing to part with in order to gain access to the most effective but also the most costly treatments. It&#039;s easy to get caught up in the Trump patriotic drumbeat but the remember platitudes without policy is like throwing rocks at airplanes but when those policies do arrive they may shock even the most devoted of Trump supporters.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 2597326, member: 58386"] Guys like VT and OF are so enamored with Trumps nationalist/ populist rhetoric that they pay no attention to the legislation the hard right will soon vote on. In my state a study shows that the impact of the repeal of Obamacare is as follows. 1.2 million residents of the state will lose their insurance ( and contrary to the belief of some they are not all system gaming "relief rats".) The state's budget deficit will go from 1.7 billion to 3.3 billion annually . 137,000 health care workers will lose their jobs and a sizable majority of the state's small rural hospitals will cease to exist. Our line haul contractor and his wife were paying $ 1700 a month for a basic health care plan. That's over $ 20,000 a year and were grateful and relieved to make it to Medicare only to discover that Ryan and the boys are going to "save" and "reform" Medicare by eliminating Medicare as we know it and replace it with a voucher so low that it wouldn't even begin to cover the premiums for a private policy. Now guys like OF and VT are no spring chickens and in the not too distant future will begin to consume a lot of healthcare and it will become ever more costly over time. The question is how much of their personal fortune are they willing to part with in order to gain access to the most effective but also the most costly treatments. It's easy to get caught up in the Trump patriotic drumbeat but the remember platitudes without policy is like throwing rocks at airplanes but when those policies do arrive they may shock even the most devoted of Trump supporters. [/QUOTE]

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