politics

Republican Healthcare: Pro death panel, pro medical debt

The worst of all possible worlds

This is such a huge issue for red states. It’s hard enough to recruit docs in rural areas (assuming the local hospital is even financially viable, although critical access hospitals do get extra funding) and now it’s going to be that much harder. Who wants to practice in a place where you can go to jail for doing your job?

When the people who can flee have fled, the state will still have two senators.

because of a fairy tale

That is the baffling and infuriating part of it all. It's like we would base laws and social structure on "The Emperor's New Clothes", "Hansel and Gretel" or "The Three Little Pigs".

It is absurd but here we are, a very large portion of the world believes in some form of fairy tale to justify real world implications, rules and law based on such a fairy tales. And then also have the gall to block or impede real world science based on such a fairy tale.

Over evolved scared little monkeys prone to believe in the boogie man, that's what we are.

Not to be pedantic, but it is nowhere near half the country. There is an absurdly significant over representation of Republican politicians for several reasons:

• The Senate is not a proportionally representative body, therefore the less populous states that make up the majority of the country have significantly more power than they otherwise would, and these states are predominantly Republican.

• Gerrymandering allows states that are much more purple than you would assume (like Texas for example) to be hostily controlled by the Republican party even in areas that would otherwise lean more heavily blue.

• The suppression of voting rights by the Republican party. This includes schemes to prevent accessible vote by mail options for the entire country, which is a super easy problem to solve. However, solving it would allow apathetic voters who otherwise wouldn't vote or those who can't easily access polling stations due to work, disability, or other reasons to vote regularly. Then you get into the fact that we are basically the only country where national elections days aren't a mandatory holiday.

I could go on, but the point is that we currently live in a system of minority rule. The true number of legitimate Republic voters in this country is roughly 30% of the voting age public. The Republican party knows that the demographics are skewed insurmountably towards the liberal/progressive with each passing year. They cannot win the numbers game, not even close. The only way they continue to win is to erode democracy, destroy people's faith in government, and game the judicial system.

its like 30% of the country that reliably votes for these trash goblins, the problem is like 70% of the billionaires support them because the republicans will give them all the tax cuts and hand jobs they'll ever want. Most the billionaires also own a majority of the press so the propaganda guns are only getting bigger faster and dumber.

Jesus christ, everyone in that story comes across as trashy to me but the kidnapping charge is ridiculous. I don't think you should have any claim to parental rights when you don't know where your 15 year old daughter has been living for months. How about arresting her mom and charging her with neglect/abandonment or whatever relevant law is on the books in Idaho? But hey, Republicans once again prove they don't actually care about protecting kids and this has always been about controlling women.

You repeat yourself.