The GOP has historically NEVER represented the working class and opposed not just a national healthcare program for over 60 years, resulting in the deaths of millions from lack of access to healthcare, but the GOP opposed the employment benefits workers now take for granted and opposed the social safety net of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
The GOP with a bill introduced by Sen. Rubio and slipped quietly into a must-pass appropriations bill cut billions in insurance company subsidies that covered those sicker patients with pre-existing conditions and cut Medicaid expansion that increased premiums and forced some companies to drop out of the ACA. The GOP also blocked setting up state healthcare insurance programs in an effort to kill the ACA.
Under Bush-Cheney, healthcare cost DOUBLED and insurance companies abused their clients by automatically denying claims, denying pre-existing conditions, setting lifetime limits, making women pay more, not covering cost-saving preventive healthcare, and allowed insurers, providers, and drug makers to inflate costs and pad administrative costs. The GOP also changed the bankruptcy laws to benefit not consumers but the big banks and credit card companies. The GOP lied and claimed that cardholders were abusing their credit when in fact most bankruptcies were/are due to overwhelming medical bills.
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