As the FT reports this morning:
Republicans' proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act could leave an extra 24 million people uninsured within a decade, a non-partisan Congressional budget watchdog concluded on Monday, prompting a sharp rebuttal from the White House. In its highly-anticipated report, the Congressional Budget Office said that the proposed legislation would significantly reduce the federal deficit, but vastly alter the US healthcare landscape, with millions of more people uninsured.
In a single paragraph we learn the true cost of the right wing obsession with the wholly false goal of balancing the books of the government. People will die for it. Literally.
When the world's financial markets are still desperate to buy government debt the Republicans would rather deny them that choice and kill people to prevent it happening. Politics is rarely more objectionable than that.
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I believe it could actually be (or at least SHOULD be) criminal. Governments have a ‘Duty of Care’ towards their citizens (http://www.justanswer.com/canada-law/786zc-does-duty-care-apply-actions-government.html). Maybe the resulting un-insured should take out a class action against the government.
Compounded by the Repulicans rushing the bill through congress before the Congressional Budget Office can chew the numbers and then dissing the CBO ahead of time as liars. President Bannon must be loving the way this coup is working out.
Directors of the federal reserve and world class post Keynesian economists tell us here as referenced by Stephanie Kelton, that as the sovereign issuer of currency, any notion of government book balancing and solvency is just an unmitigated lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ikiJt9h6E
Neo-Liberal Junk Economics has now become a world epidemic threatening the well-being of all human societies. A united effort is now required to find an antidote to this deadly virus.