Don't Just Take MY Word for It...

This post will primarily interest my American readers, for reasons about to become obvious.

Let's get a tiny bit controversial for a change.

The great majority of the time, my posts here at The Lair of the Silver Fox are focused on my own writing. Makes sense, right? My blog, my words. Sure, there's a rare post that's not much more than a YouTube video, or an occasional article that's heavy on the links, but I usually make this blog about me, my creative writing, and/or my opinions.

Not today.

As the title above implies, I'm going to rely on linking to recent articles by others to make today's basic point, which is this:

Fueled in part by the current presidential administration, whose main raison d'être seems to be erasing the legacy of our previous president, the "majority party" members in the House and the Senate are proposing a replacement for "Obamacare" which will accomplish two basic things.

1. It will cost several millions of Americans -- primarily those who are elderly, and/or poor, and/or already unhealthy -- their current medical insurance, and/or astronomically raise their medical costs. (And Medicaid, by the way, will really be screwed.)

2. It will, of course, lower taxes for the absurdly wealthy, the people who least need to have their taxes lowered. This seems to be the primary goal for that above-mentioned "majority party."

I very rarely offer political opinions or facts on my blog, figuring there are many, many others who are more qualified to do so. Besides, that's not why I blog anyway. But here, in no real order, are links to a dozen articles about what's been happening, or is about to happen, with the proposed new American healthcare plan. To read the full article, click on the headline or quote.

1. "It would help the young and healthy at the expense of the older and the sick."

2. "The Republican health care bill now sneaking its way through the Senate has a good chance of becoming law, even though it would do miserable damage."

3. "They are not starting anew, but are polishing a bill that will leave 15-20 million people without health care, prompt higher insurance and medical costs for all but the youngest adults, freeze and shrink state-run Medicaid (which now covers 45 percent of the children in rural America), and defund Planned Parenthood."

4. "Remember Trump’s Promise Not to Touch Social Security? It’s Gone Now"

5. "The secrecy surrounding the Senate measure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is remarkable — at least for a health care measure this consequential."

6. "Trump betraying all his health care promises is the biggest Trump scandal of all"

7. "The states that will take the biggest hits and be pushed to reel in safety nets for the poor and vulnerable tend to be blue."

8. "Shifting Dollars From Poor to Rich Is a Key Part of the Senate Health Bill"

9. "It would be a big mistake to call the legislation Senate Republicans released on Thursday a health care bill. It is, plain and simple, a plan to cut taxes for the wealthy by destroying critical federal programs that help provide health care to tens of millions of people."

10. "Republican Senator Vital to Health Bill’s Passage Won’t Support It"

11. "G.O.P. Health Bill Would Leave 23 Million More Uninsured in a Decade, C.B.O. Says"

12. "We asked Times readers how the Republican proposals would affect them. Here are a few of their stories."

I'm hoping things will turn out for the better, but I doubt it. And we, the voters, have traditionally had short memories, and so we keep voting legislators back into office, although these politicians don't give a damn about those they ostensibly represent. *sigh* Will it ever change?

Thanks for your time.