Michael Ramirez for April 05, 2019

And now he’ll be stuck with the bills for all that with no insurance, or money, good shot at the very public that elected “Doc Bonespurs”.

Aren’t you proud to be in support of pulling the healthcare rug out from under millions of Americans, Mike?

But in this case, you’re ripping off a band-aid from a wound you know will start bleeding again, and you don’t have so much as a smaller band-aid to replace it with.

Anything to get rid of them horrendous Obama Death Panels, right?

And remember that Republicans celebrate when people die because they do not have health insurance.

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Your basic compassionate conservatism.

That may be true but the problem is that there is no tournique prepared.

You would almost think that Mr. Ramirez ‘gets it’.

Let’s not forget that repealing “Obamacare,” as the current Republican regime wants to do, would also cut back Medicare prescription drug coverage and preventive care coverage. That’s not just going to hurt. It’s going to kill.

Did a really good job drawing a G5 ventilator.

Americans borrowed 88 BILLION last year for healthcare. Mr Ramirez knows that we have the best healthcare system for the BANKS!!

Cheech and Chong’s Big Brave Motorcycle bit comes to mind.

…And then setting fire to the life support. If by “hurt a bit” you mean “thousands of people could die”, this cartoon would be completely accurate.

Ramirez and the other Trump minions sincerely want people to suffer. Schadenfreude is the conservatives Viagra.

He is going to rip off the bandage so the patient can bleed to death. They need that room to for Sheldon Adelson’s transfer of infant’s blood.

The “band aid” reference in this toon is essentially accurate in that the ACA was only meant to help a small group of Americans get healthcare who couldn’t get it from their workplace. Now that the ACA has been whittled away by the GOP, all that’s left is law that creates insurance plans that are actually affordable. I site a case in point. Back when I was in my 40’s, I tried to keep up a major medical plan. But, the plan, though it had a large deductible, kept costing more and more till, at over $200 a month I had to drop it. Bear in mind, this was major medical only, no outpatient and there were already many surgeries that were in that category. Today, thanks to the regs of the ACA, often called Obamacare, $200 will buy a lot more policy than I could get almost 30 years ago. Now, Dump, his GOP colleagues and select justices want to eliminate all of the ACA and put us back to the ’80s and ’90s. Then their insurance corp friends can go back to charging even more for even less.

Hahaha, you’re all gonna die cause Republicans are greedy, snerk!

I still mourn a dear, beautiful, friend who died of cancer at the age of 51 because she had no insurance, and couldn’t afford to follow up on hospital tests that would have shown early cancer in her kidney. By the time she could no longer stand the pain, she was in stage four metastasis, and died shortly after. This was pre ACA.

To paraphrase an NRA Slogan; Diseases don’t kill people. Untreated Diseases kill people. And there will be so many more opportunities to offer up all those wonderful “thoughts and prayers.”

Fits right in, doesn’t it?

The ’Cons health care plan will support using leeches to bleed patients and burning sulfur to drive out the demons from them.

Obamacare IS a Band-Aid. Inadvertently, Ramirez got something right. Ripping it off without a replacement is what the GOP want to do, taking us back to status quo ante. Neither Ds nor Rs are prepared to admit that the cure is universal single-payer healthcare, not another Band-Aid.

First is the final paragraph from an article written by an Emergency Room Doctor:

Republicans need to be honest with themselves and the public: If they want medicine to be truly free-market, then they have to be willing to let the next man or woman they find lying unconscious in the street remain there and die. In a truly free market, we cannot treat someone — and charge someone — without their consent and against their will. If we believe, however, that those lying there in their most vulnerable moments deserve a shot, then we need to push forward with the idea that health care, at its core, must be designed around a caring system that serves all people fairly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/health-insurance-free-market.html

Next a report about the probable savings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8mw1-KGCQg

And the report quoted in that video clip is at:

https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-analysis-of-medicare-for-all

Click on the Read PDF icon if you wish to read the entire report which is over 200 pages.

Finally here’s an article written by an American living in Germany. This is not written by a pundit or editor or a newspaper writer. I know that most RWNJs will not believe this due to the source, but since the person who wrote the article wrote it for the Daily Kos it’s the only source available.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/22/1836876/-I-Went-to-the-Dentist-Today?detail=emaildkcs

That ripoff is gonna be bloody painful.

Oops, Mikey. Dotard finally got the word that healthcare was a toxic topic for Trumpublicans in the 2020 elections, so he put off all talk on the subject until after the plebiscite. Too bad Donnie, it isn’t going to work.

Trumpcare= death!!