Recently, Forbes, the Economist, and Thinkprogress, did articles on Trump’s threat to cut the ACA’s cost sharing reduction payments (CSRs) if the AHCA isn’t passed.
Make no mistake, the POTUS and his administration have chosen to use the threat of cutting off, immediately, the access of our most vulnerable populations to healthcare as a bargaining chip if he does not get what he wants.
Nor is there any chance I’m misunderstanding Trump’s administrations intent. In an interview with The Economist in May, Trump was very definite: “There is no Obamacare, it’s dead. Plus we’re subsidizing it and we don’t have to subsidize it. You know if I ever stop wanting to pay the subsidies, which I will,” Trump said. “Anytime I want.”
Trumps administration has made good on their promise to destabilize the ACA in spades. Committing to only paying the CSRs one month at a time is another tactic designed solely to continue this destabilization. Sean Spicer explained even further when he said “We committed to making them last month, and that’s as far as we will go at this time, We’re not committing to them this month.”
“But Spicer then signaled that the “dynamic” will change if the Senate passes a health care bill. The bill on the table — which was written in secret by Republican senators and hasn’t been subject to a hearing — is in some ways harsher than the House version that would result in 23 million Americans losing their health insurance. But unlike the House bill, the Senate version continues to temporarily provide tax subsidies for consumers to buy health insurance on exchanges, albeit ones that are much less generous than Obamacare.
“If we can pass health care overall, then that changes the dynamic,” Spicer said. “It will ultimately be up to the president to decide.”
Access to healthcare, educating those we serve on how to use their healthcare, and providing them with the necessary supports to understand what their medical practitioner is telling them is a huge part of my work world. My CKF staff eats, lives, & breathes healthcare and the intricacies of both the ACA & proposed AHCA because I need them to be fully informed experts for our clients; I’m no slouch with this either.
Knowing what I do professionally, and as a Holy Ghost filled seasoned saint who does my best to walk my talk, I need Trump’s “Christian” supporters to explain to me exactly where in the Word it says blackmail and subjecting those least able to afford CSR cuts and the loss of their healthcare is remotely Christ like.
The latest “Trump is led by God to hurt the poor” fiasco, which came out on the Jim Bakker show this week, I think is the most ashamed and embarrassed I have ever been by and for people who call themselves a pastor. Paula White held that record previously, but, Jim Bakker and Frank Amedia just laid her support of Trump in the shade.
If you haven’t listened to, or read, what these two pathetic excuses for “men of God” said you need to. They remind me of Eli’s sons because their lies are defiling the house.
You cannot extol what Donald Trump does and says as a result of the gifts of wisdom, discernment, and him repeating what God downloads into his head. As if this heresy isn’t enough, Amedia calls North Korea, and their mentally & emotionally unstable leader out and challenges them; unbelievable.
Anyone reading this who honestly believes Bakker, Amedia, White, Trump, and all the others of their ilk, are being led of the Lord: shut up, don’t say a word, unfriend and block me as fast as your little fingers can type because I refuse to tolerate your willful ignorance of the Spirit, the Word, and the neglect of those very people that Christ said, “whatever ye do to the least of these you do to me”.
Don’t waste your time, or mine, by calling me out as being un-Christian because I’m intolerant. I’ve got news for you, being intolerant of hatred, of those who incite violence, bigotry, racism, misogyny, greed, treason, and abusing those in poverty, those who are most vulnerable is something I’m willing to take my chances with God on.
Christ ran the money changers out of the temple because they brought greed and avarice into his house. When we don’t call these things out: We. Are. Complicit. When, as believers, we cover those who commit these vile, unseemly, forbidden acts with the skirt of the church and under the guise of doing God’s work -we are in danger of hellfire and damnation.
Finally, Christ was a brown skinned Middle Easterner who was a refugee, who fed the hungry, healed the sick, hung out with low lifes, and didn’t have a job. If this administration wouldn’t let him in the country how on earth can they let him in their hearts.
Here’s the link to the video:
Heartsease 
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