{"id":5330,"date":"2017-03-14T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2017-03-27T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T02:15:16","slug":"gops-compassionate-christian-healthcare-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5330","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Compassionate Christian Healthcare Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have released their healthcare plan that will replace the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) and surprise, surprise, it sucks. There&#8217;s plenty to hate about this plan called the American Health Care Act(AHCA or Trumpcare); so much so that <a href=\"https:\/\/cooper.house.gov\/groups-opposing-republican-health-plan\" target=\"_blank\">the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, American Nurses Association and AARP (among numerous others)<\/a> have all come out against it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ifi9M7DRazI\" target=\"_blank\">John Oliver did a brilliant and humorous analysis on the plan Sunday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So where millions obtained affordable healthcare under Obamacare, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/niallmccarthy\/2017\/03\/14\/new-republican-healthcare-plan-would-cost-the-old-and-poor-the-most-infographic\/#486e646b486e\" target=\"_blank\">it is estimated by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that 24 million will lose access under Trumpcare and would have devastating consequences for the old and poor<\/a>. Not only that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/03\/07\/the-massive-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-inside-the-gop-health-care-plan\/?utm_term=.c077d3f143f4\" target=\"_blank\">the wealthiest Americans would get enormous tax benefits from the plan<\/a>. We&#8217;re wondering what Jesus would say about the Republican&#8217;s compassionate christian effort to deny basic healthcare services to the poor, sick and elderly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5334\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5334 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesusrepublicanhealthcare.jpg\" alt=\"Capitalist Jesus, who is also very Republican, applauds the new Republican healthcare plan, which will compassionately make getting basic medical services more difficult for the poor and elderly while giving enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.\" width=\"395\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesusrepublicanhealthcare.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capitalistjesusrepublicanhealthcare-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalist Jesus, who is also very Republican, applauds the new Republican healthcare plan, which will compassionately make getting basic medical services more difficult for the poor and elderly while giving enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have released their healthcare plan that will replace the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) and surprise, surprise, it sucks. There&#8217;s plenty to hate about this plan called the American Health Care Act(AHCA or Trumpcare); so much so that the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, American Nurses Association and AARP (among numerous others) have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP&#8217;s Compassionate Christian Healthcare Plan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[995,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[599,1526,252,69,22,20,389,27,1527,70,9,461,763,199,21,43,601,98,596,587,296,188,19,47,48,694,1525,1316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}