Hi guys! Been busy with the Resistance but I have to tell you: The bi partisan Congressional Budget Office, a respected body in the US Congress, says that in 10 years, the number of Americans excluded from the existing health care system (Obamacare) by the new trumpcare bill that is presently being debated by the Republicans would be 24,000,000. That's in addition to the 28,000,000 that are still presently uninsured for a grand total of 52,000,000 uninsured Americans in 10 years. Forum visitors from Europe, where health care is available to all, must find these numbers incomprehensible.

Paying premiums would not be mandatory under trumpcare, meaning that young people - who are rarely sick - would chose not to pay, leaving the older segment of the population alone to pay. For example, the Budged Office says "a 64-year-old making $26,500 per year would pay $14,600 under the proposed American Health Care Act."

The trumpcare bill would allow the insurers to charge the old folks FIVE TIMES more than they charge the young people (presently, it is 3 times).

Meanwhile, the rich would get a tax break of $346 BILLION during those 10 years because trump would eliminate the tax that they have to pay for health care.

It's ironic that a bunch of poor older folks in the rural areas voted for trump because he told them he would decrease the cost of health care. They believed him in November 2016 as if we were still living in the 1950s. How long will they believe him, how long will the propaganda work? I suspect that the moment the old folks are being told by their health care providers that they are no longer covered for this and that and maybe for anything, they will stop believing, no matter what propaganda is being thrown at them. The poor people of Russia believe Putin when he says that Russia has to take Crimea back and Ukraine back and has to get involved big time in Syria, although the poor are almost starving. I don't think that the poor Americans are that gullible. But we will see.

For those who say that the Republican party won the election and that we should all accept it and and that we should all shut up, I say: Fuck You! This is not the type of society that we want to live in.