Because the cost markups are crazy here. Things that are cheap over there cost 10 to 50 times (if not more) here. If you have decent insurance, your insurance has “negotiated” a cheaper rate with the care provider. You insurance covers “most” of that “cost” and you pay a super reduced rate.

I would love it if she were like “Fuck yeah, I said it! I should have said it a long time ago. This has gone way way WAY too fucking far! IMPEACH.”

Smoking hot take, snowflake. It’s as if you know nothing about which you’re speaking.

I look forward to the tepid non-apology apology from Collins and the conservative media burning her in effigy.

It’s nice to actually hear a Republican-any Republican- admit that the man in charge isn’t fit for the job (I realize she didn’t mean to say this publicly, but still).

Tragically I think is destined to pass if it comes to a vote.

They’ll just blame it on Obama, and all their supporters will eat it up and parrot it back forever and ever. Facts don’t matter.

So their plan is to cripple the ACA, and when everything goes to shit as a result, say it doesn’t work and repeal it. Fucking assholes. The only reason insurance of any sort works is because everybody has to buy in. Share the cost. That’s why car insurance works. That’s why the old healthcare system didn’t work. Take…

I’m just glad John McCain has returned from his sick bed to do away with whatever goodwill remained for him.

Wow, screwing both individuals, small business, AND large corporations in one fell swoop? Quality legislating right here, folks.

Single payer, not-for-profit. NOW. That’s the only acceptable replacement.

This site can’t shut down. How am I going to reply to my dad’s unending stream of garbage forwarded emails?? You know, such classics as “You’ll never believe that this marine punched his professor” or “Check out this picture of a shark jumping out of the water to eat a helicopter! Can you believe they caught this on…

Yes. The big variable here is “which of these horrifying trainwrecks are they trying to open the debate on,” since there are three (?) or more versions of the Senate bill—McConnell’s, McConnell’s revised, McConnell’s plus the Cruz amendments, and who knows what else.

It’s good to see that, in what might be his last major senate vote as he fights for his very life, John McCain is still able to summon up the strength to be a total piece of shit.

Also, did anyone else see the clip where Trump claimed people have been “suffering” under ObamaCare for the last SEVENTEEN years? This schmuck can’t even read from a prepared statement correctly.

Step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style?

SOMETIMES SNACKING IS A CHORE AND IT’S HARD WORK AND SOME OF US SWEAT BUT WE SNACK THROUGH THE DISCOMFORT BECAUSE SNACKING IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT.

I had a high school friend who moved here from Bangladesh when he was two years old. He had no memory of his birth country, and his parents told him all his life that they were legal immigrants. He was 17 when ICE raided his house and arrested his father, who it turns out had overstayed his visa years prior. My friend…

“Some of the people that are opposed to this, there are female senators from the Northeast... If it was a guy from South Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style,”

three “female senators from the Northeast,”