How can Senate Republicans possibly defend their healthcare bill when it's so obviously a ploy to pay for tax cuts for the rich by cutting Medicaid?

Even Republicans are now coming to the realization that the Senate Republican healthcare bill is terrible.

Friday afternoon Nevada Senator Dean Heller became the 5th Republican senator to publicly say that he doesn't support the Senate healthcare bill.

"This bill that's currently in front of the United States Senate is not the answer, is simply not the answer, and I'm announcing today that in this form I will not support it.

It doesn't protect Nevadans on Medicaid and the most vulnerable Nevadans: the elderly, Nevadans struggling with mental health issues, substance abuse, and people with disabilities"

This bill is monstrous.

It strips away protections for people with preexisting conditions.

It lets insurance companies charge older customers 5 times more than younger customers.

It defunds Planned Parenthood.

It cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

How can anyone possibly defend it?

-Thom


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