Republicans want to kill you. Worse than that, they want to kill you so that they can give your money to rich people who don't need it.
If you've been reading social media over the last week, that's the main message you'd take away. It started when the Senate released its long-awaited health-care bill, the culmination of nearly a decade's promises to repeal and replace Obamacare. This bill was not so much a repeal as an adjustment, and not so much an adjustment as a tweak.
But it did propose to eliminate most of the taxes used to fund Obamacare, including the reviled individual mandate. And alter the funding structure of both Medicaid and the premium subsidies to make them somewhat less generous. So obviously: Republicans want to kill you. Their rich donors need your bodies to use as mulch on their diamond plantations.
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