Republicans have three “qualities;” they are hypocritical, arrogant, and ignorant. They now have a party leader who is even more farcical than they have been for the last 20 years. The American people cannot expect much from a party who has not accomplished one positive action for the American people in decades.

When our real president, Barrack Obama, took office in 2009, one of his major goals was to ensure that all Americans had an opportunity to secure healthcare; joining the rest of the developed nations. Thousands of unnecessary deaths would be prevented each year. All 545 members of the three branches of government have the best healthcare taxpayer money could buy, and why shouldn’t those they are intended to serve have the same?

Two years later, after surviving hundreds of attempts to obstruct the law, the Affordable Care Act became a reality. Those of us who understand how healthcare works in other nations sought a ‘single payer’ program which would have created a less complicated system, and low costs for as many as 30 million Americans. The final law was flawed, thanks to Republican objections, but it was a beginning. From the day it was signed into law, Republicans began plans to repeal it; based on claims which later prove to be fabricated.

Today the GOP has control of all three branches of government, as soon as Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court is confirmed. Today, details of a new healthcare plan to replace what came to be known as “Obamacare” were revealed; no one approves of a shortened plan which was literally ‘thrown together’ in days.

For weeks protesters have been demanding that Republicans cease their efforts to remove life-saving healthcare for 22 million Americans. Now that Republicans have offered their own plan, they have additional protests; protests from doctors and hospitals. To once again claim that Trump and his hypocritical party have no idea of what they are doing is rhetorical, but accurate.

“We cannot support The American Health Care Act in its current form,” the American Hospital Association, which represents about 5,000 U.S. hospitals, said in a March 7 letter to Congress. The Federation of American Hospitals, which represents for-profit chains including HCA Holdings Inc. and Community Health Systems Inc., also said it had “significant issues” with the plan.

“We want to make sure that whatever comes out of this change really supports particularly those low-income Americans, who frankly don’t have the resources to afford coverage,” Chip Kahn, CEO of the hospital federation, said Wednesday at the health insurance forum in Washington.

What took experts years to accomplish will be destroyed and replaced by a plan which has no opportunity for success. It is estimated that 20 of the 22 million people now covered by Obamacare will be uninsured.

I have absolutely no faith in the Republican Party to accomplish a single law which will positively affect the working class. They are actors, pretending to be qualified legislators. The future of their party and themselves are the only goals before them.

The American people have an opportunity to take their country back in the 2018 midterms. Let Republicans know that we want a return of the once ‘Grand Old Party.’

Op-Ed

By James Turnage

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