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Cat: Break out the Bud Light, they got that fucking thing done! Dog: Are we celebrating the massive tax break for the fucking richest Americans or the huge tax break for fucking corporations or the enormous tax break for fucking investors? Poster: It's about states rights Waives EHBs Switches to Medicaid block grants Cat: All that shit! Plus also the underfunded risk pools and rollback of the Medicaid expansion. Dog: Nice to know the do-nothing Congress can get something passed through half of it when it wants to. Poster: It's about what we can afford Eliminates taxes Ends means-tested subsidies Creates (cheap) risk pools Cat: We'll bust out the Coors Light when the A.H.C.A. passes the Senate. Dog: Let's hope Congress goes back to being constipated before it shits all over American health care. Poster: It's about profiting off misery UnitedHealth 2016: $184.8 billion, up 17.6% Aetna 2015: $60.3 billion, up 15% Cigna 2016: $39.7 billion, up 5%

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Whew. This is going to be a tough one.

Health care is complex. Health care in the United States is insane. The Republican's attempt to destroy the AHA—with the simultaneously confusing and Orwellian name of the American Health Care Act—is insanely complex, much like the AHA itself. So this is a difficult topic to work out—it's basically impossible for a normal human to simply read the legislation and have any idea what it does.

Thankfully, we have the internet, and access to experts to explain. Timothy Jost at the Health Affairs Blog has a good basic write-up. Alan Rappeport at the New York Times has details about the tax cuts involved in the AHCA.

The Republican Representatives straight up snuck cases of Bud Light into the Capitol to celebrate this stupid legislation. May they all choke on that crap.

Meanwhile I'm sure it's completely coincidental that health insurance companies, which have been blaming the ACA for losses, are actually more profitable than ever. Their ACA exchange policies aren't a profit center, however, and that irks them, despite showing gains year-over-year.