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SPECIAL HEALTHCARE VOTE EDITION SHOWDOWN: LET’S HOPE HE FAILS

Paul Ryan is universally hated amongst all human beings. No one really knows why President Trump is going along with Ryan’s absurd healthcare bill. After all, Obamacare is doing just fine for the GOPshills — watching normies get trucked over by soaring premiums and vanishing coverage acts by greedier than fuck insurance companies. Clearly, the best option for healthcare is to segment the population into pools.

For example, if you’re in great shape, have normal vitals and do not have a history of health problems, you should be put into a healthy insurance pool. On the other hand, if you’re a fatty who sits around all day eating bacon, you should be in a different pool — one that pays a lot more for insurance. In other words, health insurance should be a meritocracy. This way, people have an incentive to become healthier — eat better — lose the pounds and hit the gym.

If you knew that losing 20lbs and lowering your blood pressure would equal monthly savings, you’d make smarter choices, right?

The same risk analysis applies to any other insurance product, why not healthcare? No one wants to pay the bills of some alcoholic who drank himself into cirrhosis. That person should’ve been diagnosed and his health insurance placed into a high risk pool — leaving healthy normies unaffected by his poor choices.

If today’s healthcare bill fails to pass, it’ll be a loss for Trump, but an even greater one for Paul Ryan. It’s like throwing a hand grenade into a bus, knowing that you might injure some innocent commuters — but you’ll definitely kill the driver — who was just about to drive the fucker off a cliff (I realize tossing a hand grenade into a bus, in order to ‘save it’, might not be the best choice for law enforcement).

Let’s pray to the Gods, both the old and the new, that the grenade detonates in the lap of Paul Ryan today, effectively taking him out as House Leader — paving the way for a new leader, one without duplicitous designs of a malevolent nature.

Here is a livestream of the healthcare vote.

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26 comments

  1. ginfizzbear

    This is an excellent blog post and I endorse it. Not that you need or seek my blessings.

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  2. doubleplus

    The greatest/worst photo shoot of any political career, ever. Here’s the gallery: http://time.com/3445032/paul-ryan-all-pumped-up-for-his-closeup/#1

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  3. rigged game

    My guess is that the House bill will sneak thru.
    This whole “close” thing is a ruse, just like the
    Presidential vote where it was PREDETERMINED
    to hand it to Agent Orange via rigged counting.

    The Health bill after squeaking thru will go to
    the senate, where they will fuck with it and
    reconcile with the House.

    The Swamp wants two things: 1) Eliminating
    the Medicare Surtax (especially the 3.8% part)
    paid by high income earners; and 2) Slashing
    MEDICAID and making it a block grant to the
    States, where they can readily fuck the poor.

    SOP: Do ANYTHING to slash taxes on the rich
    and on corporations. And SCREW the middle class.

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  4. joshua

    Like your plan Fly. This bill is awful, and should be scrapped. If you could find a way to spin it to the Trump base, I’d be all for it.

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  5. LP

    “Clearly, the best option for healthcare is to segment the population into pools.”

    Let’s create a different CDO out of them and do it again!

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  6. matt_bear

    no different than auto insurance or life insurance policies.

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    • sarcrilege

      We are so sorry, FBI is too busy covering up for Klinton et. al. crimes and deflecting with “Look over there, Russians” ruse to investigate pedogate at this moment.

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      • BenCBrainard

        Clinton Foundation is unable to meet the demand for fresh victims so they are turning to local sources. Risky, but when you’re beholden to such extreme depravity, your appetites outweigh your caution.

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  7. NON Solo

    Fly,

    What about genetics? Things you can’t co trip like many cancers and diseases.

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  8. mfu5324

    The Art Of The Deal folks….its all planned by the Trumpster
    “Keep your enemies close”… he shows support for Ryan Bill knowing it will fail. When it does fail, Ryan becomes neutralized, eliminated…… great theatre!

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    • traderconfessions
      traderconfessions

      Uhh…not really.

      I hope it passes so that Dems retake House in 2018. But there are a couple fewer retards in the Senate so the House bill will be modified so only widows not orphans are fucked by it. It’s amazing how Freedom Caucus Republicans can have so much compassion for Goldman Sachs but so little compassion for people who are living paycheck to paycheck just to make a deadline. The only people the new bill helps are those in perfect health. Forget the politics… it’s a dumbass bill hurried through to make some arbitrary deadline.

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      • ginfizzbear

        This bill is a shitburger. Ryan is hustling this through because of a personal hard-on for it, he thought House passage of the bill 7 years after Obamacare approved would be cute, and he doesn’t know where Trump falls in this FBI investigation, so he’s hustling it along.

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  9. bennyhill

    So much for 9D chess – this isn’t about Ryan, it’s about Trump the “great negotiator” being exposed like the Wizard of Oz behind his curtain. So much for “getting things done, because that’s what I do”. He can’t get anything outside of executive orders done and even those get blocked by federal judges. Oh and an approval rating in the 30s. Worst president ever.

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    • juice

      only 7 years and 9 1/2 months left for your Trump-bashing

      enjoy it while it lasts

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  10. mistermoe

    This is hilarious. There are at least 2 parties that wear the letter “R”. This Freedom Caucus is showing the Democrats that as sloppy as they are, the Ds are at least united enough to get shit done.

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  11. traderconfessions
    traderconfessions

    Inbetween making gobs of money today I read that a bunch of pizza gate fans are gathering in DC tomorrow.

    Still time for cuckpots to make travel plans!

    Fly?

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  12. kmontoya

    So if I lose weight my blood pressure goes down. Fuck you, taking pills is much easier.

    I want to profess my love for you (not gay) Mr. Fly.

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