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God these fucks love a grift

Or, tax-funded universal healthcare for all US residents (including permanent residents and long-term foreign workers & students) like Canada has. Of course Republicans would crawl over broken glass to vote down such a healthcare plan. They want Americans to be sick, suffer, die, or go bankrupt.

So I suppose Republicans only want us to insure healthy people. I'd be willing to bet there are quite a few of them in the high risk category.

Ok Mrs Gulch.

Can we please make elected officials get the same median pay and healthcare as their constituents so the outcomes of what they do actually matter to them? Maybe make them young enough that they know they will live through the consequences long enough to matter?

This is why the Republican party can never ever come up with any sort of working healthcare plan that is affordable for all. I predict Trump will rebrand the ACA, take full credit for it and call it TrumpCare®.

I can’t believe he proudly said this out loud. They just don’t care anymore.

Not sure he believes what he said but….

🖕🤡

We're going back to being denied for pre-existing conditions? Cool, cool.

So tired of these asshats.

So going back to failed ideas? What's the definition of madness again?

High risk pools are cruelty to the people in them.

JFC. Talk about an increase in cost. I'll bet anything the second worst Kennedy in politics would vote for a bill with very vague guidelines on what is high risk for his donor insurance lobbyists.

Give the rich tax breaks, & make folks lose their health insurance coverage is exactly what the GOP is pushing. F*ck that.

This would not be the first time Senator Kennedy has said something BACKWARDS.

How many f ing years did they have to f ing figure out what we all know. They did nothing.

Which will increase prices no surprise.

Were not outlawed under the ACA.

Eugenics party

So cancer survivors like me can’t get healthcare or having such a high premium that I can’t afford treatment if it comes back. Penalize us for surviving is Kennedy’s answer.

"Hey, Google. Is stripping people of both their healthcare and food security a good way to get shot in the back in Midtown Manhattan?"

Sure, why not? Just keep enshitifying the whole country. What could go wrong?

Young adults between jobs buying a high deductible insurance are just one appendectomy or significant sports injury away from medical bankruptcy

Republicans’ healthcare plan (here shown by Rep. Young Kim in #CA40)

Here's why this is a bad idea.

My Medicare will quadruple my current retiree company health care plan. So there’s that.

Why the ACA cut out pools -- High costs: Premiums were double what healthier people paid Exclusions for pre-existing conditions: Nearly all states excluded coverage Lifetime limits: Most states had lifetime coverage limits Enrollment caps: Some limited how many people could buy thru their pool

Stupid idea.

High risk means high cost and or junk plans.

the OG racist speaks

In 2005, after my Paul died, I paid $1,500.00 a MONTH for high risk insurance for myself & my 2 kids. It's impossible to pay those premiums.

Chaos Cruelty Corruption

He can fuck right off with this BS

Republican healthcare policy ⬇️

Look at his body language...crossed arms...they are in a protective mode because they know they dont have the cards in this fight.

His body language speaks volumes.

agree!

Make Congress use the same plans as people with real jobs. Put every geriatric Conngressperson in a high risk pool, then go talk to this shriveled ghoul about health insurance. Fuck these people.

That doesn't count as an idea.

Louisiana had a high-risk pool before the ACA, and it sucked.

just another republican saying let 'em die.

I hate Republicans so much.

So, gutting the ACA to let people die. And then what, getting rid of pre-existing condition protection? Asking for anyone who has F-ing lived more than five years.

It's good to see Republicans feeling pressured to finally admit what they want to do with healthcare, no matter how insanely absurd their ideas are.

You first John, that bullshit foghorn leghorn accent doesn’t fool me. You went to Oxford, you fake the moronic hick but know what you’re doing. You want high risk pool policy? Go get one yourself you fuckin hack

His body language speaks louder than his ideas…

Foghorn Leghorn says what??

I’m pretty sure if this happens being alive will be a pre-existing condition

I'll say it again, I don't want health insurance. I want healthcare.

By soon does Thune mean "2 weeks?"

Brilliant. 🙄

God forbid any of his family or himself gets cancer..

That’s ironic, coming from a big fatso hillbilly

Screw that!!!! Back in 1998 I couldn't get insurance because of pre-existing condition, I looked into the state's high risk pool. $550/month - then. I can only imagine what it would be now. The same assholes that said we should go to ER for primary care.

Medicare for All just sliding right over that smoothed out brain because of all the Health insurance lobbying huh?

High risk pools are an insurance and political scam. And create prohibitively high premium insurance pools. As “high risk” individuals opt out the politicians can say they fixed things but folks just didn’t want it. And the insurance pools go into a death spiral. Utter bullshit.

My dream is that some really smart people are working on a plan moving towards single payer. It’s our only hope to reduce cost and cover more. If dems present this, I think it would be popular.

Even he knows this is bad, look at his body language. What a POS

High risk pools were state operated, notoriously under-funded and twice as expensive. Kennedy doesn't have to worry because taxpayers foot the bill for his family's healthcare. He's a millionaire by the way. Estimated wealth is around $20 million.

Honest question, why are these people so incapable of doing basic research? Are they lazy or simply inept? High risk pools were banned because they were often 200% higher cost with pre-existing condition exclusions. Even pregnancy was enough to get you kicked off. They were unaffordable.

Call it the UCA.

Another Kennedy in a high risk pool for being a complete jackass.

What a complete fool.

'ive been thinking about what we can do...to fuck over even more people, harder'

I remember high risk pools. I remember when I couldn't even get insurance because I was too high risk. I remember when there was a time there was a cap on insurance spending. It was a lifetime cap, and it was like $1,000,000. After you cross the cap, no insurance for you! Just stop making it worse!

Well I would like to see my stock in insurance companies pay me more on the backs of people who had cancer

So a person who was broke by cancer will go into a high risk pool to be broken by insurance that’s very kind of a senator with gold standard health care

Kennedy doesn't give a flying fuck about anyone but white Christian men.

So GOP has got NOTHING new....They want insurance companies to be able to cancel your coverage if you use it. And if you have pre-existing conditions, which include pregnancy, insurance companies can deny you coverage.

JFC. You’re healthy til you’re not.

Making insurance unattainable for those who probably need it the most is a shite idea. Capitalism in health care is the problem.

Yes. Make insurance so expensive sick people can't afford it...and they die which is what Senator Foghorn Leghorn wants!

Death cult

Young people would like high deductible plans because they make a bet. They bet they won’t get sick or injured so they buy the “ cheapest plan” which as it turns out isn’t so damn cheap when you step on a nail and get that ER bill

Senator Leghorn lectures America on afforability.

High risk pools is incredibly vague and gives insurance companies plenty of ammo to deny coverage to people who have pre-existing conditions. Disgusting.

my cool epic healthcare idea: free healthcare. no more insurance companies.

Oh, I bet they'd like that. Them yunguns. Meanwhile, he's got top-notch Healthcare via YOU & ME.

Roll back that clock

“Tell that walking zombie thing to shut the fuck up. He went to Oxford, didn’t he? He went to an elite institution but keep hamming up the drawl.”

“I got, I say, I got this boy as fidgety as a bubble dancer with a slow leak."

Foghorn Leghorn is a dick.

Wether I agree with what he's saying or not (I don't), MAKE A PLAN, MAKE A POLICY, PUT FORTH A BILL....BEFORE YOU DESTROY HEALTHCARE AS IT IS. As it is it's already bad, but have shit ready BEFORE you destroy most people's lives.

Scammers, they're all grifters, and every law they break or make, is just about getting away with grifting their constituents.

Put your teeth back in John!!!

Bring back them high risk pools. Them cancer patients can pay 5-6k a month.

Well he could do that instead of having a gold plated health plan as a member of the government. Young healthy people could just say "to hell with it" and take their chances. High deductible, high risk, aka waste of money He has not been thinking at all, he is just Foghorn Leghorn clucking drivel.

Kennedy is a liar. ACA did not "outlaw" high risk pools. ACA forced insurers to stop denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. Allowing Kennedy and other to LIE to gullible people is criminal. It sure is NOT journalism or news.

Great. Back in the day, HIRSP didn’t affect me. Now it would. I’m not sure what part of me would be covered! lol. Also young healthy ppl can buy short term care plans that aren’t on the exchange.

There was a great reason the ACA outlawed high risk pools. I remember when patients got insurance “riders” on their breasts for 10 years for all sorts of stupid reasons… after even a benign breast biopsy. If they got breast cancer it was entirely excluded from insurance coverage. Horrific.

Senator Foghorn Leghorn is irritating and immensely stupid sounding.

Fuck off Foghorn

Mr. Haney can go back to the farm in the luxury limo he came to Washington in.

getting rid of the high risk pool? that would personally affect Hunt--along with so many others

John Kennedy can go fuck himself Fog horn leghorn has no plan You can tell they are scared. pedos just talking shit

They have nothing but are so hellbent on destroying Obamacare. Who thought this is a good idea? Fuck you MAGA for voting for Trump for the third fucking time. I hate you all.

I remember when a startup almost went under because the CTO's husband was diagnosed with a blood cancer and no one would insure the company. How about we not.

I have end stage renal failure through no fault of my own, just bad genetics. Bringing back high risk pools assumes insurers can deny coverage again. I should have to go bankrupt because I was dealt a bad hand?

Everyone deserves healthcare.

High risk pools were a failure. They were often underfunded, had limited benefits, coverage limits, exclusions for pre-existing conditions, high premiums, high deductibles, and exclusions for pre-existing conditions.

Thank you Jesus 🙏🏽🇺🇸

What an asshole

Yup

Election-winning arguments… 🤦🏻‍♂️

I was expecting the “savings accounts”

The only entity that gains with "high risk pools" is the shareholders of an insurance company; so, no on that one, Johnnie.

It’s sickening

So... death panels.

And he’s proud of this suggestion?

OMFG

FU

Not a Schumer fan but he finally summed it up. Republicans want to pit food against healthcare. Democrats believe people should have both

Easy for him to say, he's receiving cush insurance at taxpayer expense. At his age, he would be in a high risk pool. which costs 150%+ of a regular premium. Since he's become fairly well off during his congressional tenure (@ $20M +/-), maybe he could cover some folks with health insurance.

Another Joni Ernst fan If he thinks it’s so great, they should apply it to all members of congress…

Fuck that. Those were outrageously expensive.

High risk pools??!!! No one but rich folks and insurance carriers want that! And young adults can buy a high deductible plan and cancel any time right now. And until recently could get a subsidy. This fool knows nothing about insurance.

Fuck that AND fuck him.

Oh, here I thought he was gonna say we should get everyone the same plan he gets.

Wait ..isn't health insurance with high deductible for out of work people between jobs ... called Corbra

Vile

"And, ah mean, ahm jus' spitballin' heah..."

Said the guy with great health insurance he doesn't pay for. What a P.O.S.