Sick.
Sick. Sick.
One of the things the new Republican
health care bill leaves out is a requirement to be
insured. They did this primarily to make the bill sound
appealing to dumb
people, like t-Rump voters, who felt it was "Un-American
to have to buy insurance!", forgetting they already
have to pay
for both home
and auto insurance.
And, oh yeah, health insurance.
The ACA isn't perfect but all the fixing it needs is
for Republicans to require that all states accept the
Medicaid expansion and to return the
of risk corridor
provision.
What's this risk corridor thingy?
It's money the government
promised the insurance companies to pay for already
sick people to come online, paid for by modest taxes
to the rich and certain vanity surgical procedures. Unfortunately,
Republican Marco Rubio slipped a provision into a recent
spending bill that killed the corridor. That's why
premium's suddenly jumped in 2016 and insurance companies
began to get cold feet.
So it's to these t-Rrump voter's I say "Congratulations,
geniuses! You can go bankrupt from medical care again!
Yayyyyyy!"
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Speaking of t-Rump, the Park Service just released
the official
photos for both the 2017 and 2009 Presidential
inauguration crowds. What's easily apparent is that
the Obama crowd is easily four times larger, and it
was
bitterly
cold
that day in 2009.
This
is all the proof you need that there was no enthusiasm
for the t-Rump and I, for one, blame the electronic
voting machines. The election results
in the rust-belt states stunk to high Heaven.
We need to return to paper votes and hand-counting,
something the Dutch recently announced they'll be
doing. They're nervous about what happened in the U.S.
(Unlike the GOP) so good for them.
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Remember when you were about ten years
old and you vaguely became aware of this thing called
a President?
Remember how
cool you thought it would be to be President and be
able do whatever you wanted?
Yeah, t-Rump is a ten-year-old playing at being President.
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Finally, a few words about why I recently
missed a full ten days worth of comics.
Like it or not, the daily buffoonery of this current
president drives the news cycle, and though you think
it would be easy
to just picture him as an idiot day
in and day out, it's not.
I'm a progressive and thus my nature is to strive for
a better tomorrow while doing my best to ridicule hate
and ignorance. But Hate and Ignorance stole
the election and are now conspiring to loot the Treasury
(again) unthwarted as they have the judges and the
cops
in their pockets.
In essence, it's hard to worry about the polar bears
when that child in the Oval Office has the nuclear
codes.
But I'm not giving up. I'll
be here for the duration. And to my Patreon patrons,
thanks for hanging in there with me.
Cheers!
=Lefty=
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