Once again our local invasive liberal progressive Marty Essen has submitted unsubstantiated statistics to support an allegation that is totally erroneous ¬– aka, a lie.
Comrade Essen asserts that President Trump has “possibly” caused as many as 20,000 Montanans to lose their health insurance with the “stroke of a pen,” and to “imagine” (to accept without foundation) how much greater the losses will be in states with larger populations. I’ll pause at this point to allow you the opportunity to absorb with abject horror the ramifications of this imaginary disclosure. Imagine, possibly hundreds of thousands of citizens with serious terminal medical conditions being driven from health care facilities out into blizzards, tornadoes, and hurricanes as wealthy patients laugh at their pathetic plight while consuming copious amounts of baby snow seal tartar and green sea turtle hatchlings on the half shell. Oops, forgive me, I was thinking about the United Socialist Republic of Canada’s government-run health care system.
This has just become too easy. ‘’Never before in our country’s history has a US President gone out of his way to hurt the American people” states Marty Essen. “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.” “If you like your health care plan you can keep your health care plan and you will save on average at least $2500 annually per family.” OOOBAAAMAAA. “If you have been successful you didn’t get there on your own,” “If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that.” OOOBAAAMAA. To proceed along this path, although possible would just be unnecessarily cruel.
I need to get back to generating tax revenue to support Marty Essen’s sucking on the entitlement teat but in closing a couple of quick comments –
1 – On 10-24-17, Marty Essen’s “beloved” Montana Health Co-op along with Anthem withdrew from the Montana exchange because “participation was no longer “financially viable.”
2 – The non-partisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office) indicated that adoption of the Alexander/Murray health care plan will result in a long term savings of 3.8 billion dollars without any reductions in insured Americans, including Marty Essen. Please pay attention on how the Democrats vote to “protect” the American middle class.
3 (I know I said 2) – As an additional reference to a prior US President not going out of his way to hurt the American people I would submit that while in office OOOBAAAMAA and his then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the sale of 20% of the US production of uranium to those pesky Russians who have taken a solemn oath to destroy America. I guess Americans not exposed to the blast, the EMP, and subsequent radiation exposure would not be hurt?
For myself I would prefer to wear the deplorable badge with pride than to have to rely on the forced extortion of resources from others to support me.
WC Masker
Stevensville