MAGOPs to America: Oh, Go to Health

Yesterday, by a vote of 216-211, the MAGOP-run House passed a health care bill, which is pretty much a misnomer since it did absolutely nothing to address Affordable Care Act tax subsidies that expire at the end of the year.  Meaning tens of thousands of Americans will either lose their health care, or make it next-to-impossible for them to pay for it.

The bill won't pass the Senate, since it would require 60 votes, and that won't happen.  So, this is lose-lose situation for MAGOPs.  Passing the bill into law would have basically the same result for those tens of thousands (some estimates are 100,000) as not having health care.

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, MAGOPs have said they wanted to "repeal and replace" the law.  Repealing it has been a challenge for them -- but coming up with something to replace it with has been the monumental burden for the party.  In 15 years, they haven't even offered anything.  Trump repeatedly has said for almost a decade that he supposedly had a "big, beautiful health care plan" that he'd be announcing "in two weeks."  The closest he's come to that is during his 2024 debate with Kamala Harris where he laughably said he had a "framework of a plan."

And no, we haven't even heard the framework.

Putting aside how cruel this is -- for some reason, MAGOPs think it's good politics.  Well, it at least helps understand, in part, why Trump has a 33% approval.

On Tuesday, in a Special Election for a state senate seat in Kentucky, Democrats won the seat -- that they had held with a 21-point margin -- by an astounding 47 points.  And the very next day, MAGOPs still failed to get the message and passed this bill to cut health care.

In related news, the Department of Health and Human Services cut funding yesterday for seven grant programs.  Each of those cut grants had been awarded to the  American Academy of Pediatrics for programs that seek to reduce "sudden infant deaths, prenatal substance exposure, birth defects and adolescent mental health problems." The Academy had been critical of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

In other news, there is a new outbreak of measles among children in South Carolina.  Out of the 137 cases, 125 of those infected are unvaccinated. 

This is not about Trump.  We know who he is.  This is about the elected MAGOPs in Congress who enable him and pass his policies making them law.

Even when that means telling the American public who need the tax credits in order to have basic healthcare.