Monday, July 03, 2017

It's pure class warfare

And they started it

So, is this bill good for you? Yes, if you meet the following criteria:

1.Your income is more than $200,000 a year
2.You have a job that comes with good health insurance
3.You can't imagine any circumstances under which you lose that job or income
4.You don't have any family members or friends who don't meet those criteria
5.You have zero empathy for anyone else

The set of people who can check all these boxes is not a winning political coalition. But Republican leaders believe that their voters are tribal enough, sufficiently walled off from information, that they'll ignore the attack on their lives and keep voting R – indeed, that as they lose health care, get hit with crushing out-of-pocket bills, see their friends and neighbors face ruin, they'll blame it on Democrats.

I wish I were sure that this belief was false.



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