Welcome to the Republican Quagmire.
Here are the representatives of the wealthy applauding Trumpcare, a moral disaster, snatching health care from tens of millions mainly to give the very wealthy a near-trillion-dollar tax cut.
Trumpcare was thrown together so fast it’s hard to believe any significant number of those voting for it even had time to read it (200 pages). And it was, of course, pushed through the House without giving the Congressional Budget Office a chance to estimate its costs, its effects on coverage, or anything else.
Deductibles will rise, not fall, as insurers are set free to offer lower-quality coverage. Premiums may fall for a handful of young, healthy, affluent people, but will rise and in many cases soar for those who are older (because age spreads will rise), sicker (because protection against discrimination based on medical history will be taken away), and poorer (because subsidies will go down). Many people with pre-existing conditions will find insurance either completely unavailable or totally out of their financial reach.
And Medicaid will be cut back, with the damage worsening over time.
Let's hope the immortal words of W.C.Fields "never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump." do not ring true and that the suckers who voted for trump do, in fact, smarten up and dump a few dozen Republican representatives of the rich out of the House.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897