So THIS is What The Conservatards Are Upset About.

[Minimalist]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/us/po...c=rss&_r=0

Leaders Struggle to Unite House Republicans Behind Health Bill

It seems that the conservatards really want insurance that doesn't cover anything to make it "cheaper."  WTF good that does for anyone is beyond me.

Conservatives are upset over the failure of the House bill to repeal a set of regulations in Mr. Obama’s signature health law, which require insurers to cover a base set of benefits, like maternity care, preventive services, wellness checkups and rehabilitative services. These “essential health benefits” raise the cost of insurance and prevent companies from offering stripped-down options, the conservatives say.

But insurance companies seem to have other ideas.

http://healthcarenews.com/promoting-good...-wellness/

To meet that goal, health-insurance companies are creating new wellness programs, which range from smoking cessation to online assessments with cash incentives, to telephone counseling and screenings offered within the workplace. The programs are in line with the federal government’s Affordable Care Act goal of creating new incentives that build on existing wellness programs, as well as the healthcare cost-containment bill passed by the state Legislature and signed into law by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick

Ostrowski said there is a lot of activity and progress being made to transform the cost of healthcare services and the way they are delivered. “There is also a lot of legislation around giving people incentives to take better care of themselves.”

Well, fuck.  Can't have people taking better care of themselves, can we.

[Polaris]

For all their talk of repealing Obamacare, they proved it was them behind that bill the entire time. That's why you will never see it really replaced because one party came up with the idea (the Republicans) and the other party (the Democrats) pushed it.

Had John McCain won, I believe it would have been called McCainCare.

[Minimalist]

Probably not.  McCain would have been more interested in starting wars.

---

I'm surprised they aren't cumming in their shorts for this aspect of it, though.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trumpcar...on-taxcut/

Trumpcare gives top one percent a $31 billion taxcut

They'd love to give their leash holders a big tax break but the republicunts just can't enjoy it unless the poor get fucked at the same time.

[Angrboda]

https://www.moneytips.com/preventative-h...save-money

Studies have challenged the premise of preventative health care and alleged cost-savings since the 1970s. A randomized study by the RAND Corporation designed to answer this very question found that the less expensive it was for people to obtain medical care, the more people used that care, driving costs higher.