ACA Marketplaces: Eve of Destruction or Dawn of Bipartisanship?

Miracle Girl: ACA Marketplaces: Eve of Destruction or Dawn of Bipartisanship?

Will senatorial bipartisanship fund cost-sharing reductions? Or will Trump's cancellation of the payments be allowed to destroy ACA marketplaces?

In other words, are all Republicans as eager to destroy Obamacare marketplaces as President Trump? 

Killing CSRs: Which Supervillain Does Donald Trump Resemble Most?

Miracle Girl: Killing CSRs: Which Supervillain Does Donald Trump Resemble Most?

President Trump is killing Obamacare cost-sharing reduction payments (CSRs) for lower income people. Is his resemblance to a supervillain a coincidence?

In real life, there are no superheroes to save us from the villainy of Donald Trump.

Association Health Plans: Obamacare Death by a Thousand Cuts

Miracle Girl: Association Health Plans: Obamacare Death by a Thousand Cuts

Is Trump's authorization of association health plans designed to cause the death spiral Obamacare has avoided on its own?

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Pre-existing Conditions: When the Foxes Own the Healthcare Coop

Miracle Girl: Pre-existing Conditions: When the Foxes Own the Healthcare Coop

Trumpcare is dead. Again. But GOP predators haven't stopped stalking Medicaid and threatening the healthcare of millions of people with pre-existing conditions.

When the foxes own the chicken coop, the hens better stay on their guard.

Graham-Cassidy: The Final Trumpcare Resurrection

Miracle Girl: Graham-Cassidy: The Final Trumpcare Resurrection

Hatred of the Affordable Care Act is the ultimate zombie, eating the brains of the GOP. And Graham-Cassidy is the final result.

Indeed, this brainless and heartless bill pickpockets Medicaid expansion states and resurrects pre-existing condition exclusions.

Way to go, GOP.

Medicaid Redetermination: For Me and the Future of Millions

Miracle Girl: Medicaid Redetermination: For Me and the Future of Millions

It's Medicaid redetermination time for me. Will Medicaid's future be redetermined too?

Medicaid won the battle...this time. But the war isn't really most sincerely dead.

Skinny Repeal and GOP Moderates: Compromising or Compromised?

Miracle Girl: Skinny Repeal and GOP Moderates: Compromising or Compromised?

Many GOP moderates have osteoporosis of the spine. Will they cave to Mitch McConnell...yet again?

If Skinny Repeal passes, it will be the healthcare of the American people skinned.

Mitch McConnell’s Deadly Game of Obamacare Repeal Darts

Miracle Girl: Mitch McConnell’s Deadly Game of Obamacare Repeal Darts

Mitch McConnell hopes one of his legislative darts will hit the Obamacare repeal mark, but it's the healthcare of millions in his bulls-eye.

The Senate Majority doesn't care about the pain his blind darts "game" will cause.

Pottery Barn Rule: You Break the Healthcare System, You Bought It

Miracle Girl: Pottery Barn Rule: You Break the Healthcare System, You Bought It

Forgetting the Pottery Barn Rule, the president has vowed to smash Obamacare. While Trump will buy the blame, the American people who will pay the price.

Sorry, Donald, the phrase doesn't go, "The buck stops with Dem."

Better Care Recovery Act II: Dean Heller Highwater

Miracle Girl: Better Care Recovery Act II: Dean Heller Highwater

If the BCRA fails, the healthcare coverage of millions will have been saved by senators covering something else, especially the GOP's most endangered senator, Dean Heller.

Will Obamacare be saved by a senator out to save his electoral skin?

CBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket

Miracle Girl: CBO Report: 22 Million Lost in Trumpcare’s Tangled Thicket

What a tangled web the GOP weaves when they practice to deceive...about the harms of Trumpcare. You may be wondering what can we do to prevent 22 million from losing their healthcare (according to the CBO report).

Plenty.

BCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich

Miracle Girl: BCRA: Senate Trumpcare Bill Starves Medicaid to Feed the Rich

The BCRA puts Medicaid on a starvation diet. To pay for a massive tax cut for the rich, the Senate version of Trumpcare throws Medicaid recipients under the bus...even the disabled.

Like me.

Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass

Miracle Girl: Mitch McConnell’s Trumpcare Legislative Hyperspace Bypass

Thanks to Mitch McConnell, Trumpcare will have no committees, testimony, or deliberation in the Senate. Now that's a bypass demolition worthy of Vogons.

But even the Vogons were more respectful of legal niceties.

Denied Access: Medicaid and Pre-Existing Conditions Under Trumpcare

Miracle Girl: Denied Access: Medicaid and Pre-Existing Conditions Under Trumpcare

Repeal and replace…with nothing. That's what the CBO estimate of the AHCA -- AKA Trumpcare -- boils down to if you have a pre-existing condition and gained coverage through the Medicaid expansion or ACA marketplaces. Just ask the CBO.

Trumpcare means no care at all.

AHCA: Grabbing for a Pre-Existing Condition Fig Leaf

Miracle Girl: AHCA: Grabbing for a Pre-Existing Condition Fig Leaf

Did Jimmy Kimmel's newborn son cause his heart disease? And did I do something when I was 11 to cause my lung damage? The GOP seems to think so.

Butt-covering is a pre-existing condition for GOP congresspeople as they pass the AHCA. That's the only coverage 8 billion will ever provide.

Trumpcare or Shtupped Care: Replacing Obamacare with No Care at All

Miracle Girl: Trumpcare or Shtupped Care: Replacing Obamacare with No Care at All

GOP "moderates" are afraid of an electoral shtupping. The poor, sick, and aging fear losing something far worse than an election. As Trumpcare fails yet again, the political cowardice of moderate conservatives may save countless lives.

Risk Pools: Night of the Living Zombie Trumpcare

Miracle Girl: Risk Pools: Night of the Living Zombie Trumpcare

They Won’t Stay Dead! should be the motto for Trumpcare. This time, the GOP is trying to use the failed elixir of risk pools to raise the walking dead Obamacare repeal.

This time around, the GOP wants to waterboard the sick in zombie Trumpcare risk pools.

The Five Stages of Republican Trumpcare Fail Grief

Miracle Girl: The Five Stages of Republican Trumpcare Fail Grief

The GOP seems to going into the five stages of grief over their epic Trumpcare fail...all at the same time.

Republicans can remain in Trumpcare fail Denial as long as they want. Acceptance will eventually come. Then, the rest of us will be able to move on to Hope.

Trumpcare Fail Aftermath: 50 Ways to Lead to a Death Spiral

Miracle Girl: Trumpcare Fail Aftermath: 50 Ways to Lead to a Death Spiral

The CBO found that Obamacare ISN'T in a death spiral. But there are countless ways Donald Trump could set one in motion. Indeed, for the poor, a simple stroke of a pen could cause an all too real death spiral.

Ryancare: The Dog That Caught the Car…and Was Run Over by It

Miracle Girl: Ryancare: The Dog That Caught the Car…and Was Run Over by It

I’m not shedding any tears over Ryancare's impending demise. Nor are the 24 million Americans who will lose their healthcare if the AHCA is passed. In their reckless rush to pass Ryancare/Trumpcare, the GOP is sealing the AHCA's doom.