Do you get your news from me?

If you do, don't do that anymore. I am not a news agency. I am a blogger. Of course you all know that...except for a troll that climbed out from under a bridge somewhere.

It was a very good day over here yesterday. Someone that disagreed with me, a Trump supporter I suppose, told me I should be banned from the internet. I think that might be like not being allowed to travel if I am a Muslim but I am not sure. That line of thinking is going around these days.

The fact that I was called out for posting "fake new" made me laugh. I do not post the news. I just comment on what I think is a very scary time in history. And I am allowed to do that in America...saying what I think is alright isn't it.

And I still think the joke is on the conservative Republicans because I remember very well what their take on Affordable Healthcare Plan was at the beginning of the Obama era. But, having a short memory or even calling the truth a lie is okay these days too.

I have done a little extra digging (not depending on the News media stories for my memories) and I did find a "sorta" healthcare plan that the Republicans sponsored. The winners in that plan was the insurance industry with the focus being on limiting lawsuits. In an article written on Politifact I found the following information:

House Republicans offered an amendment in November 2009 that -- if it had passed, which it didn't -- would have replaced the House Democratic health care bill. It was much smaller (219 pages, compared to roughly 2,000 for the Democratic bill) and had a more limited scope. It relies on bedrock GOP principles: consumer choice, no tax hikes, limited government involvement and caps on lawsuits.

See, that is what I remembered happening. I thought at the time the Republicans were somehow lobbied to death by the insurance industry and I still believe the same thing.

I also looked up Consumer Affairs, the website that posted the information on the insurance industry raking in the money on the back of the consumers after Obama Care went into effect. Consumer Affairs has been reviewed and rated and does seem to work for a lot of people. The article called Health insurance industry rakes in billions while blaming Obamacare for losses! explains what happened after 2010 when the Healthcare Act became law.

But getting back to the comment. This is how it went:

AnonymousMay 9, 2017 at 4:17 AM

You're a friggin' liar. You should be banned off the internet for promoting fake news.
The pre-existing clause stays in Trumps new health care.
Go get a fuckin life, you loser.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/30/politics/trump-health-care-pre-existing-conditions/index.html

Sorry for the f#$% but still  you have got to think. WOW! Now this person could have made an argument for his take on the new law. Maybe he/she is right in a lot of ways. Yes, the pre-existing conditions are covered but...the cost to the insuree could be astronomical.

Republicans would have states set up "high-risk pools" for those with pre-existing conditions. There is no Congressional Budget Office score of the proposal yet, but the AARP has projected that premiums in high-risk pools could cost as much as $25,700 per year. CNN

So I want you to know,

1. I do not cover the news...I give my take on what is happening.
2. I love to get comments from those that disagree with me.
3. I have learned that those comments can go either way...I can get new information or I can be call a liar or worse.
4. You need to know that, if I am totally wrong, I will admit it. 
5. Hence, I had better have a back-up plan. :)
6. and I do have a life, thank you very much!

Have wonderful day.

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Dear Donald Trump and the Republican Party, The joke is on you!

English: Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Please be sure to read the article about insurance companies and healthcare insurance under Obama Care:
Health Insurance Industry Rakes in Billions While Blaming Obamacare for Losses.

See, the deal is a little over 8 years ago the Republican party and all those that supported a very conservative cause (the Freedom Caucus?) did not think that an Affordable HealthCare Act was even possible. It was communist/socialist in their eyes and evil. "What is the world coming too?" they asked.

Now look what is happening. They are not repealing the plan...they are replacing it! Even at its worst, the country will still have a healthcare plan and the joke is on them. I don't think that is what they had in mind.

However, the bad thing is that insurance companies and those that are unwilling to admit that we need to take care of each other want to do away with one of the most important clauses in the original plan in the new plan. They are putting cost cutting ahead of citizens with pre-existing conditions seeking coverage. They want to do away with the part of Obamacare that did not allow insurance companies to up insurance costs when you had a pre-existing condition. Discrimination against those people with major health issues was forbidden after Obama Care went into effect.

I talked to the wife of a man whose insurance would go up to $96,000 a year if the new plan goes through. He is suffering from heart problems and has cancer. Even though he is fairly young he has been retired for a couple of years. He will need to go back to work. She said that they had a very good retirement plan and then the Trump administration moved the goal line!

Let's hope that the joke is not on us in the end! Those people that have no idea what real health care is all about may be as heartless as we suspect they are. It is really frightening isn't it?

Oh and I might add...I don't understand why they are "replacing Obama Care/The National Affordable Heathcare Act" when they could be reworking it. Are they that frightened of the name Obama? Are they really that chicken? My oh my!

One more thing...I think that the culprit in the high insurance cost is the insurance companies. They may have made out like thieves for quite a while. I said this at the beginning of the article and I am saying it again. Read this article and think about it!

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